Body Finder, The
By Kimberly Derting
The Body Finder is a young adult novel with elements of suspense, mystery, but mostly young or first love.
Violet Ambrose finds dead bodies, but not by your typical way. No, for her, it is psychic and manifests by sight, smell, or hearing. It doesn’t matter if they are animal, or as in The Body Finder, human, just that they must be murdered.
School has started. It’s your typical day, except when she considers her conflicting feelings toward Jay Heath. They’re best friends, right? They’ve been that way since they were six-years old, but the summer had ‘changed’ things. She feels off kilter every time she’s around him. Their friendship flutters between the boy she knew him as three months ago to a giddiness she doesn’t understand. It is extremely irritating. Will it ever return to its carefree existence? She isn’t the only one affected by it. He’s got a fan club. Half the senior girls would risk detention if only to bask in his presence. Yeesh!
Somebody is murdering girls, teenagers. It’s not supposed to happen in her small town but when Mackenzie Sherwin disappears, Violet decides she can no longer go along with the flow but must become proactive. Because she might not know what the killer looks like but the psychic manifestation of murdered victim and lingers in a matching pattern to the perpetrator.
During the August meeting for Silicon Valley RWA Chapter, I won a copy of the Body Finder by Kimberly Derting. Since I’m interested in young adults and mysteries, it seemed like the perfect book to continue my studies (like yeah, I wouldn’t have wanted to read it anyway). Young love, first love, and nearly the boy next door. Why couldn’t I have found a guy like this in high school? But inserted into the love story are the murders. Ms. Derting does an excellent job in building suspense and although I’m much older than her intended readers, I caught myself flipping through it to find out what happened next.
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