It is an eighteen-year-old cold case, and Kinsey Millhone is intrigued. The victim was a Jane Doe, an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was found near a quarry off California's Highway 1. Her wounds were brutal - she was multiply stabbed and her throat cut, her wrists bound with a length of wire. But the Santa Teresa County detectives had little to go on, and abandoned the case after a few months. Now, old and ill, they want Kinsey Millhone to identify her, just to bring closure to the case and rest to their minds. But revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.
Grafton's seventeenth Kinsey Millhone adventure is based on an actual 1969 unsolved murder. Kinsey's old friend, retired police Lieutenant Con Dolan, and his ailing partner, Stacey Oliphant, have never solved the case of a Jane Doe found stabbed nearly twenty years ago. The two aging cops enlist Kinsey's assistance to investigate the ice-cold case. Kinsey begins an intense journey into the past, uncovering clues to the homicide and, in a strange twist, to her own lost childhood. Judy Kaye performs with a confidence that comes of knowing her characters well. Her rendition of Kinsey is smart-alecky as ever, locals are appropriately small-town, while the two old men's raspy voices sound tobacco- and whiskey-stained. Another knockout performance by Kaye makes for one of the most entertaining alphabet mysteries yet. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
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