Haines,
Kathryn Miller. The Girl Is Trouble.
Macmillan/Roaring Brook Press 325p $17.99 978-1-59643-610-7 ms/hs E-BN Mystery/Detective
Private investigators are what Iris’s father
and uncle are. Her father was in Pearl harbor when the Japanese bombed the island and he lost a
leg. Now he walks around
with a wooden leg, but he is still very capable. He sees Iris’s interest in the investigative part of the business, and she is good at it
and wants
to do more. One night she comes home and discovers that her dad has left the safe
open! She can’t help but
look inside, and what she finds is photos pertaining to her mom’s death. She
realizes that, with all the blood in the photos, her mom could not
have killed herself with pills as
she has been told happened. She begins her own investigation and discovers that her mom had also
been labeled as a Nazi, yet to Iris that seems impossible because her mom was a Jew!
This is a very good period novel of the 1940s. The author does a good job at creating the atmosphere of the 1940s and moving the reader back
in time to picture what it must have been like during World War II. It is an
excellent story with an even better ending. --
Magna Diaz
Historical fiction,
Mystery – Fiction, Nazis – Fiction --
Magna Diaz
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