A review by alexiskg
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming

4.0

Amelia Earhart was a selfish jerk, turns out. I suppose it's only to be expected of celebrity adventurers. (She had the President build a secret multimillion dollar one-use island runway for her whim of a flight IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DEPRESSION, and stood up the radio instructor for every lesson she was supposed to have before her failed flight save for one hour on one day a week before she left.)

As for the book itself, very well executed; despite knowing technically what happened to Earhart (or knowing what we don't know about what happened to her), the interstitial time jumps to July 1937 made for a very compelling mystery/thriller framework.