I received this book on 12-08-17 from my mother-in-law in Las Cruces, NM.

c. 2017 -- 483 pages -- Hardcover -- #25 Kinsey Millhone --3 weeks on the USA Today Bestseller list:
#1 (8/31/17)
#5 (9/7/17)
#7 (9/14/17)

Jacket Flap: Yesterday was for youthful indiscretions. Today is for consequences. The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone begins in 1979, at an elite private school that sets a high bar for academic achievement and turns a blind eye to the risky behavior and social sabotage students use to get what they want. With absentee parents and the money to make mistakes disappear, they are free to make their own rules.

That is, until four teenage boys sexually assault a freshman -- and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ring-leader disappears without a trace.

Now it's ten years later and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released from prison. Moody, unrepentant, and angry, he is a stunted child expecting to pick up his old friendships and familiar habits - until a copy of the missing tape arrives with a ransom demand. That's when his parents 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. The vicious sociopath last seen in X has a grudge against Millhone and is leaving traces of himself for her to find.

I finished reading this book yesterday (12/6). This is one of the better Kinsey reads and a good one to end the series on. Trigger: gang rape filmed with possible consent. As in the last several books Kinsey puts her life on the line, at the end. But this time you'll never guess who saves her!

Spoiler:
An elderly senior on crutches from a broken hip saved Kinsey and killed the man trying to kill Kinsey.

Released in our Sunset Little Free Library.