Oh My Books!

I loved The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting , so I can't wait until Desires of the Dead, the second book of the series. The missing dead call to Violet. They want to be found. When Violet Ambrose's morbid ability to sense the echoes of those who've been murdered leads her to the body of a young boy, she draws the attention of the FBI. She is reluctantly pulled into an investigation that will endanger more than just her secret...but her relationship and possibly her life as well.

Title: The Body Finder Author: Kimberly Derting Series: The Body Finder #1 Release Date: March 1st 2010 Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: 336 ISBN: 0061779814 (ISBN13: 9780061779817) Synopsis from goodreads.com : 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 h...