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Reed and his sister have a very complicated backstory. The events in the book start out in 1992, so the siblings, who are at that point in their 50s, were born just before and during WWII. Kate has a different father, and their Welsh mother met Reed's father when he was stationed there during the war. The family then moves to New York, where Reed and Kate spend most of their childhood. Their abusive father is out of the picture during their childhood and their mother remarries a kind man named Gus. Unfortunately, both Gus and their mother were recently killed in a car accident. This proves, however, to be just the catalyst Kate needs to leave her own abusive husband and leave Wales for sunny California where Reed will help her and her two children get settled.
Once Reed arrives, he begins to suspect his sister's husband, Lewis, of having something to do with her disappearance. The police aren't too interested in investigating, despite the fact that another local man, Jimmy, is also missing (Lewis claims the pair ran off together) and that there is no detective who works for them with the name Reed gives them as the one who informed him of his sister's disappearance. Reed's short stay to visit his sister eventually stretches out so long he leaves the B&B where he's staying and rents a place, determined not to leave until he finds out what happened to Kate. He eventually hires a private detective, Dana Spatafora. Dana is also a coach for the local women's rugby team.
While the book was well-written, there were some things that were confusing. Reed variously claims to be Welsh (since he was born there and apparently also has a UK passport), and from California and/or New York, depending on who is asking. The book really drags in the middle, with not much happening to solve the mystery or advance the story. The reader gets a long introduction to women's rugby that seems to have nothing to do with anything much. There are also some very strange claims, such as "only children eat white bread in the US" and "there are only two flavors of potato chips in the US." (?) There are also people playing sudoku in the early 1990s and a grandmother who apparently couldn't remember how to pronounce her granddaughter's name after 4 months apart (the grandmother wasn't senile or anything). I also wondered about the 8 year old girl who was 5 feet tall and apparently that was her final height (or close to it). And the bog snorkelers who'd been coming to the area for "30 years" when the "sport" wasn't even invented until the late 1970s. And the only "foreign" food Reed could eat was Chinese, yet he has a favorite Mexican restaurant. Also the fact that Reed spoke to his sister on the telephone every other Sunday, yet when the police ask when he last talked to her, it had been three months (which he apparently thought nothing of until the call informing him she was missing). I must admit, it was hard to follow the story with so many oddities popping up all over the place. The story was all wrapped up in the final few chapters but by then I had somewhat lost interest in what had happened to poor Kate amidst all the other chaos!… (lisätietoja)