This is from the back of the book : Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. Even more so when Kinsy Millhone's olny lead is a grown man dredging up a repressed childhood memory-----of something that may never have have hapened......
here is a little more. Looking solemn, Michael Sutton arrives in Kinsey Millhone's office with a story to tell. When he was six, he says, he wandered into the woods and saw two men digging a hole. They claimed they were pirates, looking for buried treasure. Now all these years later, the long-forgotten events have come back to him- and he has pieaced them together with news reports from the time, becoming convinced that he witnessed the burial of a kidnapped child...