Missing! Mysterious Cases of People Gone Missing Through the Centuries by Brenda Z. Guiberson - OPTIONAL

Missing! Mysterious Cases of People Gone Missing Through the Centuries by Brenda Z. Guiberson, 230 pages.  NON-FICTION Henry Holt and Company, 2019.  $20.  

Content: Language: G; Mature Content: G; Violence: PG-13.  

BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS – OPTIONAL  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: LOW  

This is a collection of six different notorious missing people cases:  Jimmy Hoffa, D. B. Cooper, Barbara Follett, Amelia Earhart, William Morgan and the two princes in the tower of London. The cases are a random collection of facts and some of the missing people have theories about where they went.  Whether through mob dealings, lost airplanes, bad politics or murder, the stories about why they disappeared were interesting, but obviously they were never found so this is a book of open-ended questions.  

Of the six stories, I really enjoyed two of them-D.B. Cooper and Amelia Earhart and Jimmy Hoffa’s chapter was well composed.  But the other three chapters were not well organized and felt like a bunch of gathered facts and implied theories.  Some of the stories rambled on, losing the point and they don’t keep readers attention. The violence includes torture, mob killings and murder.  

Reviewer, C. Peterson