The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

The Body Finder is a unique and exciting read. The characters are true to form and the storyline is mesmerizing.

You will gush at the love story aspects and feel the hairs on the back of you neck stand during the paranormal parts.

The writing is excellent and this is Dertings debut novel! This book is a mix of everything and you will be impressed with not only the main characters but also the supporting ones.

This is a story you don't want to end best of all Derting does not talk "down" to her readers as many other YA authors do.

Rush out and read this book, the sequel is due out in 2011.


Grade: A+


Synopsis [B&N]

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.

Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find dead birds her cat left for her. But now that a serial killer is terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, Violet realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.

Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved by her hope that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer . . . and becoming his prey herself.