Book Review

Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I've read all of Grafton's books and think this is one of her best. Kinsey is hired by a wealthy family to find out who is blackmailing their son, just released after ten years in the California Youth Authority, for his part in the death of a girl. The blackmail has to do with a tape that was made ten years earlier of a sexual assault on one of the girls in their circle. She supposedly had the tape and was going to use it against one of the boys, a bully who controlled his friends by threats and intimidation. Instead, she is murdered, and the tape never surfaces until now, when one of the players is back home. Who had the tape and why did they wait so long? Kinsey asks herself these questions and many more as she interviews everyone in the group, now adults with different lives. As she deals with this, she is also stalked by Ned Lowe, a psychopath we learn about in "X", who is still out for revenge. Kinsey has to solve the blackmailing issue while trying to stay alive. The story goes back and forth in time, so the reader learns the motivation of all the teenagers involved. Very clever plotting that will hold your interest until the end, which will be surprising.


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