Saturday, March 28, 2020

The Mean Streets of Portland

The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld; 2019;$26.99; 264 pages; Harper, New York, NY; 978-0-06-269-816-2; checked out from Multnomah County Library, Gregory Heights; 3/4/2020-3/6/2020

I picked this up because someone told me that the Title Wave was mentioned in it.  Not by name but if you know the neighborhood you can figure it out, besides what other bookstore sells old library books.  
Several female street people are disappearing from the streets and ending up dead in the Willamette River.  One of them catches the attention of the child finder, herself a survivor of human trafficking.  She escaped but was not able to get her sister out and she has spent years trying to find her and her latest clues bring the former foster child to Portland.  Some of the characters spend time at the Central Library and all over parts of Portland that most of us never see.  The disparate parts of the story come together to solve several mysteries.  The characters are compelling and the story is a well written mystery.  
I didn't think I had read anything by the author but in checking my records I read another book by her that was different in style and a good read.

10/10 

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