Kaleidoscope Jane by Carolyn Breckinridge

This book is the fifth in the series by Michelle Cox and to me the best yet. – Carolyn Breckinridge, author of Kaleidoscope Jane: & Other Stories“įrom the very first paragraph the reader is back in the world of 1930’s Chicago populated by Elsie and Gunther and Henrietta and Clive. Cox has knocked it totally out of the park. Cox’s ability to capture love in many of its varied, authentic forms is mesmerizing. The action/suspense at the end of A Child Lost sizzles, and Ms. Having already won myriad awards for her novels, this book is, in my opinion, the author’s best written yet. …vivid descriptive prose and historical accuracy – Publishers Weekly“ A Child Lost is a true thrill… - Paperback Paris“ “Once again, Cox delivers the passion and intrigue of Henrietta and Clive with a story that leaps right off the page. with horrifying results.Īvailable for purchase here.

When Clive doesn’t believe her, she decides to take matters into her own hands. This time, however, Henrietta begins to suspect that something darker may be happening. When the child, Anna, is herself mistakenly admitted to the asylum after an epileptic fit, Clive and Henrietta return to Dunning to retrieve her. The search leads them to Dunning Asylum, where they discover some terrible truths about Liesel. Meanwhile, Elsie begs Clive and Henrietta to help her and the object of her budding love, Gunther, locate the whereabouts of one Liesel Klinkhammer, the German woman Gunther has traveled to America to find and the mother of the little girl, Anna, whom he has brought along with him. What begins as an open and shut case becomes more complicated, however, when Henrietta-much to Clive’s dismay-begins to believe the spiritualist’s strange ramblings. When Clive, anxious to distract a depressed Henrietta, begs Sergeant Frank Davis for a case, he is assigned to investigating a seemingly boring affair: a spiritualist woman operating in an abandoned schoolhouse on the edge of town who is suspected of robbing people of their valuables.

A spiritualist, an insane asylum, a lost little girl.

Kaleidoscope Jane by Carolyn Breckinridge