It starts from the standpoint of an elderly woman talking to a lawyer and PI about finding children lost during WWII. This book almost entirely focuses on Lena's story of her life as a Jewish Polish woman during the Nazi occupation.

As a young girl in Chrzanow, Poland, Lena lived a comfortable life in a loving family until the Nazis came. An 89 year old widowed woman, Lena Woodward, walks into offices of a private investigator/ lawyer team, Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart. While the actual WW II story line of Karolina's Twins is interesting, I found the writing style to be off putting.She stood straight and poised, smartly dressed in a gray two-piece suit, a silk designer scarf and a pearl lattice barrette, which was clipped neatly to the right side of her styled silver hair. With a home from home atmosphere, you'll have a sofa-bed, TV and dining table in the open-plan lounge. Also, I wish this was told from a first person narrative flashback instead of kind of passively being told via a conversation.

Once again reading a holocaust story gives me pause, to reflect once again on the importance of never forgetting that this happened. Turning off the personalized advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. The book’s leaflet claims, “Just when you think there could not be anything new to unearth from World War II…” and I couldn’t agree more.This is set in current times in Chicago with a survivor telling a lawyer and private investigator her story. It can be read as a stand alone, but the character’s investigating the story are featured in two other books. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. And truly, when well written and developed, you can’t compare any of the well written stories of the sick reality of what occurred in Europe prior to and during WWII.

The writing itself is immaculate, the story gripping, with impeccable characterisation and believable, realistic dialogue.In the story, the author brings back the lawyer/ private detective team, Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart, that we met in the author’s previous two books. It begins with two non Jews, one of whom is an elderly woman named Lena, which is set in my hometown of Chicago.