Kinsey Millhone · Book 21

U Is for Undertow

by Sue Grafton

Published
1 January 2009
Pages
403
ISBN-13
9780399155970
Type
novel

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Cover of U Is for Undertow

About this book

U Is for Undertow (2009) is the twenty-first book, Grafton sustaining the series' classic hardboiled register with a woman at the center of it, 27 years after the alphabet began.

Its place in Kinsey Millhone

U Is for Undertow is book 21 in the Kinsey Millhone series. It follows T Is for Trespass. It is followed by V Is for Vengeance. See the full Kinsey Millhone reading order.

Kinsey Millhone is a twice-divorced, fiercely independent private investigator working out of the fictional Santa Teresa, California — a thinly veiled Santa Barbara — who solves cases the old-fashioned way: legwork, index cards, a battered Volkswagen, and a willingness to get punched. Sue Grafton built the series around a gimmick that became a genuine feat of sustained craft: 25 novels, each titled for a letter of the alphabet, A Is for Alibi through Y Is for Yesterday , published across 35 years without the…

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