Karolina's Twins (Liam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart #3) by Ronald H. Balson (2016)

 

This is the third of five books (thus far) featuring private investigator Liam Taggart and attorney Catherine Lockhart. At the beginning of each of the books the reader meets the couple's newest client and follow the case/investigation to its conclusion. In Karolina’s Twins, the client is Auschwitz survivor Lena Woodward. Lena is looking for help in keeping a promise she made to her childhood friend to find her twin girls after the war. Lena is determined to do so before she dies.

Throughout the course of the book Lena tells her story of being a Polish Jewish at the beginning of the German occupation, through the Jewish ghettos and work camps, and ending with the death march from Auschwitz. At the same time, Lena’s son Arthur, who is convinced the twins do not exist, files a lawsuit against his mother to have her declared incompetent and placed in a home. Something doesn’t ring true about this whole affair but who’s hiding what?

4.32 stars on Goodreads, 4.7 on Amazon