Y is for Yesterday is the twenty-fifth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton The darkest & most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone Y begins in 1979 when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate
- & film the attack Not long after the tape goes missing & the suspected thief a fellow classmate is murdered In the investigation that follows one boy turns in evidence for the state & two of his peers are convicted But the ringleader escapes without a trace Now it's 1989 & one of the perpetrators Fritz Mc Cabe has been released from prison Moody unrepentant & angry he is a virtual prisoner of his ever-watchful parents
- until a copy of the missing tape arrives with a ransom demand That's when the Mc Cabes call Kinsey Millhone for help As she is drawn into their family drama she keeps a watchful eye on Fritz But he's not the only one being haunted by the past A vicious sociopath with a grudge against Millhone may be leaving traces of himself for her to find