Elaine Greenstein: Margo Simon

Lisa See Dept: Somewhat reminiscent of Lisa See's subject matter, this flawed story centres on the abrupt disappearance of a female twin from a Jewish immigrant family, according to Winnipeg Free Press. At the outset of The Tin Horse, we meet the octogenarian Elaine Greenstein. Once a famous lawyer, she is planning to donate her personal papers to the archives of the local university. While going through her personal effects, Elaine comes upon several boxes from her late mother. Some of the contents jog her memory about what happened just before her twin sister, Barbara, vanished 65 years earlier. "EVERY sibling comes from a different family," declares one of the characters in this sweeping, multigenerational novel set in 1920s and '30s Los Angeles. Steinberg is a San Diego arts journalist. She has written five previous novels featuring a radio reporter and amateur sleuth, Margo Simon, including Death in a City of Mystics. Published in 1998, it tells of an accident involving Margo's mother on a trip to Israel. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.