Author(s): Sue Whiting

Adventure and Real Life Stories

What do you hope for when there is no hope? In search of this answer, award-winning Australian author Sue Whiting delivers a confronting mystery for younger readers. Mackenzie da Luca's mother is missing - she's vanished without a trace in the jungles of Panama. Now, 116 days later Mackenzie and her dad are in those same jungles. Her dad is desperate to find out what's happened to his wife. And Mackenzie is desperate to make sure he doesn't ...

Kathleen's review - Mackenzie has put two and two together and thinks she knows what's really happened to her mother, but she can't tell anyone. So despite mising hr terribly she tries to thwart her father's attempts to find out more! . . . When grief and assumptions collide ....

I really enjoyed this mystery set mostly in Panama.