Y Is for Yesterday

**Of #1 *New York Times* -bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR’s Maureen Corrigan said, Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters. With only one letter left, Grafton’s many devoted readers will share that sentiment.** The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, *Y is for Yesterday* begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate—and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state’s evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader escapes without a trace. Now, it’s 1989 and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released from prison. Moody, unrepentant, and angry, he is a virtual prisoner of his ever-watchful parents—until a copy of the missing tape arrives with a ransom demand. That’s when the McCabes call Kinsey Millhone for help. As she is drawn into their family drama, she keeps a watchful eye on Fritz. But he’s not the only one being haunted by the past. A vicious sociopath with a grudge against Millhone may be leaving traces of himself for her to find…