Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. Even more so when Kinsey
Millhone's only lead is a grown man dredging up a repressed childhood memory--of
something that may never have happened...
Looking solemn, Michael Sutton arrives in Kinsey's office with a story: When he
was six, he wandered into the woods and saw two men digging a hole. They claimed
they were pirates, looking for treasure. Now, the long-forgotten incident has
come back to him--and he is convinced that he witnessed the burial of a
kidnapped child.
Kinsey has little to go on. Sutton doesn't even know where he was that day--and,
she soon discovers, he has a