About the book
In 1979, four teenage boys at an elite private school in Santa Teresa, California, assault a fourteen-year-old classmate and record the attack on tape. The tape disappears, and the classmate suspected of taking it is murdered. Two boys are convicted after another testifies for the state; the ringleader vanishes. Ten years later, the newly released Fritz McCabe lives under his parents' close watch until someone sends them a copy of the tape and demands money, and the family hires private investigator Kinsey Millhone. Sue Grafton's Alphabet series ends with this twenty-fifth entry, which reached first place on The New York Times list.
Denise Morris Kipnis, founder of ChangeFlow Consulting, read it while grieving Grafton's death and the unfinished series, and enjoyed revisiting a past version of Santa Barbara through a beloved detective who works the old-fashioned way.
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Denise Morris Kipnis (Founder & Principal/ChangeFlow Consulting)
I’ve just finished Y is for Yesterday, by Sue Grafton. I’m bereft because of her passing, and because her Alphabet Mysteries series is unfinished. I was expecting, and I got, the satisfaction and comfort of visiting a past and parallel version of a place I know well (Santa Barbara, CA), and connecting with a beloved character who is doing a job the old-fashioned way. Kinsey Millhone is a private eye in the 80’s-her process is stripped down, no fancy technology, no Internet—just brain power. It’s a reminder for me that I am not the tools I use, and neither are the people in the client systems I work with. We’re all fallible and powerful in our own way, the way we connect the dots can be nerve-rackingly slow or lightning fast. And that’s exactly how change happens.
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