Review: The Pink Bonnet - Liz Tolsma

Review: The Pink Bonnet - Liz Tolsma - June 2019
After reading The White City by Grace Hitchcock and loving the way that the author fictionalized but still explained the crime of the time, I enjoyed it so much that I went out and found out more information about H.H Holmes. I also went out and grabbed the rest of the series of True Colors. The Pink Bonnet by Liz Tolsma tells the story of Georgia Tann aka Miss Tann who ran the Tennessee Children's Home. She was named the Baby Thief as she would snatch children out of what she called "neglectful situations" and sell them in illegal adoptions.  Most of the children did come from bad situations and she saved a few, but the majority were kidnapped from their parents. In The Pink Bonnet by Liz Tolsma, we meet Cecile Dowd and her three-year-old daughter Millie Mae. Cecile's husband Nate has passed away and she is working and trying to be a great mother especially during the current Depression sweeping the States as this book is set in the 1930s. Cecile leaves her daughter with their neighbor one morning while running errands, only to discover her daughter has been kidnapped by Miss Tann when she gets back. The Pink Bonnet will follow Cecile's journey as dangerous as it will be to get her daughter Millie back safe and sound. Her journey will be a rocky one especially since Miss Tann has a lot of powerful and influential not to mention dangerous on her side. Will Cecile ever find her daughter again or has Millie been lost forever? I am now looking forward to reading more of the books in the True Colors series and learning more about Miss Tann. The True Colors series are perfect for any crime buff around and since the accounts are fictionalized, the books are easy to read and enjoyable.