Just ok for me. Historical information was well-researched, but the story presentation for me just didn't work.

This is a terrific book; I could not put it down. It held my attention from beginning to end. A must read, a quick read, an intense read!!

I'd likely give this closer to a 3.75. I really adore true crime, old and new (this sounds weird.) The author goes back in time to delve into the mystery of when an 18 year old went missing, in England, for a month. She seemed to have been kidnapped, but is that what really happened. I didn't know about this story before the book, and I was drawn in enough to look at some of the other online theories, etc. I thing de la Torre did a great job at capturing a time so long ago. Whether her theory is correct will remain a mystery. Thank you to NetGalley and Open Road Integrated Media for an e-ARC of this title in exchange for my honest review.

This is a true story written by an author that researched in depth all the details. She used many pamphlets, books, letters, etc.to put this book together.
It is very intricate in its detail and thus leads you to know each person involved. The time period of the story also has a lot to do with the reactions of the people. The gypsies are also important, because they lead the court.to make fast negative judgement against them. I would recommend this book to be read. Very well written and interesting.
4 Stars

I was really interested in this book, but I had a really hard time with the dialogue. I love books set in various time periods of the past, but to read it in the dialect of the time was really difficult. It didn't really feel like a story, but more like a collection of newspaper clippings or firsthand accounts without any real organization or "plot". I stopped reading about 30% in. I feel like it's one I may pick up in the future, but it wasn't a book that really held my attention.

Elizabeth is Missing

One of the Eighteenth Century's Greatest Mysteries—Solved!
by Lillian de la Torre

Open Road Integrated Media
True Crime

Pub Date 06 Jun 2017

I am reviewing a copy of Elizabeth is Missing through Open Road Integragated Media and Netgalley:

New Years Day 1753 Elizabeth Canning dissapeared and she did not reappear from the darkness until January.29th. She was eighteen years old and had not had much excitement, but after her dissapearance and reimmergence she would have a story that set London on its ears.

On January 29.1753 Mrs Canning heard the latch on the door, and worried at first it would be a burglar but quickly discovered it was there Betty. She was swollen and looked beaten but she was a live. She had been robbed on New Years night, and held against her will for four weeks in a house on Bedlam. She had been about ten or eleven miles from London.

This book asks us if Elizabeth told the truth, did she mix the truth with lies?

I give Elizabeth is Missing five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!

New ebook edition of a vintage true crime from prolific author Lillian de la Torre.
Elizabeth is Missing is about a missing-and-found maidservant girl from London in the 18th century, Elizabeth Canning, whose disappearance remains a mystery today despite being able to tell her own tale of what happened. The alleged kidnapping and its weird circumstances and the shifting stories told about it involved everyone from traveling gypsies and brothel owners to the then-mayor of London. The trial and bizarre ordeal remains one of the most famous mysteries of its day and age. De la Torre offers her own theory of what actually transpired after relating the facts of the situation and trial. She also employs a lot of the language and obscure vocabulary of the day, which was quite interesting to read and very immersive and scene-setting. A still intriguing mystery after more than two centuries.

a grand piece of literature, as those intense pieces of work, I was very impressed and found that I quite liked this novel.

This author, Lillian de la Torre--takes a crack at an old true crime and gives it her best shot at what she believes is the answer to what really happened. She refutes a dozen other long-standing theories and gives us her own in this book, titled, ELIZABETH IS MISSING: ONE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY'S GREATEST MYSTERIES -- SOLVED! So, does she really have the right answer for what happened when 18-year-old English maidservant Bet Canning went missing for a month back on New Year's Day in 1753 on her way home? She was certainly kidnapped and was in terrible condition when she finally made her way home, as all will attest to. But what really happened to her? You'll have to read and decide for yourself if the author got it right! My thanks to NetGalley, Open Road Integrated Media, and the author for providing me with an ARC.