The Vanishing of Katharina Linden

by Helen Grant .... wow! We watch through the eyes of ten year old Pia as the events of her life are superimposed over the mysterious disappearances of young girls, one after another. Branded an outcast through the outlandish events surrounding her grandmother's demise, Pia and her only friend, an outc ast like herself, decide to investigate the disappearances and the well crafted tale is off and running, pulling the reader along in an inexorable race to solve the mystery.