Customer Reviews

Missing Pieces (Red Rock Mysteries, Book 3)

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My 11 year-old daughter recently acquired the first four installments of this new series. She picked one up on a recent morning, and by the time I returned home for dinner she had finished reading all four books! She wondered if we could get more!

These books are well written, engaging, and reflect values every parent will appreciate. I can trust these authors to deliver good story lines and believable characters - they have done so in the past, and have done it again with this series.

Reminds me of my childhood summer days, engrossed in a good book. Thanks, guys!

"Missing Pieces" by Jerry B. Jenkins & Chris Fabry is the first book I've read from their young readers collection. It was a very quick read. Twins (brother & sister) have a detective bone in their body and love to solve mysteries. This particular story had 2 mysteries going on. Bryce had one to solve and Ashley was working on one. Bryce is working on figuring out who's been smashing mailboxes. He thinks he has it all figured out until he finds other evidence. Ashley, in the meantime, is trying to help the lunch lady find her missing daughter who was supposedly killed in an apartment fire. Mrs. Garcia never believed her baby was killed because there was never any evidence of a body found. It was interesting and perfect for any reader who is in to reading larger chapter books.

Bryce and Ashley each focus on a different mystery within their everyday lives; Bryce wants to figure out who is smashing mailboxes, while Ashley wants to help the notoriously mean lunch lady, who seems extra sad.

While a bit of Ashley's mystery is rather unbelieveable (certain aspects of an account of a fire don't seem accurate), the story in general was well-written and would be of great interest to mid to upper elementary.