Depressing, couldn't even finish it
First I just felt let down that this book didn't have George's regular characters. But as I started reading, I just felt sad and horrible. I couldn't even finish this. It was just unremitting, depressing, bad things happening to children. If George wanted to write a social commentary on the relationship between crime and poverty, she's certainly free too. But the book should have been marked as such. It didn't belong on the shelf with her other mysteries.