What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn

What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn, 241 pages

An apt title for a book where each character is either literally and figuratively lost. And I got lost somewhere in the middle for a bit, more on that later.  You get to know ten year old junior detective Kate Meaney, staking out her neighbors and various mallrats at the local shopping center.  Her only friend, Adrian, a local shopkeeper's son, becomes the main suspect when she disappears.

Fast forward, twenty years to the same mall...Adrian's sister wanders through life working in a music store and meets up with the also lonely security guard Kurt. Together they begin to unravel what happened to Kate all those years before.

Loved the beginning; the middle was a bit murky, although she captures the culture of mallworkers and shoppers with sharp wit; and the end came a little quickly but satisfied.

I recommend it as a quick read, somewhere in the middle of your list.

3.25 stars

The End.

Comments

[Staci Taylor]

Mel,
Love your review of What Was Lost. What you wrote is exactly what I thought about the book. Loved the first part and Kate Meany. The middle of the book...slow, strange, boring....I almost gave up the book!! I really only finished it because I needed to know if they ever found Kate.