

I haven’t read many books with serial killers in them yet, but the ones I have (and the ones I’d like to get around to) all seem to have supernatural themes in them. She loves her best guy friend but doesn’t want to tell him, she goes to school and has a small but tight group of friends, and she can feel the echoes of the dead. So right away, I knew this was going to be different than anything I’d ever read (thus far). I’m used to reading about vampires, witches, werewolves, and ghosts. The words “morbid secret ability” intrigued me. This book really caught my eye when I first picked it up in the bookstore. But even as she's falling in love, Violet is getting closer to discovering a killer. Violet has never considered her ability useful, but now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.įiercely protective of her, Jay agrees to help Violet search for the murderer. While her confusing feelings for her best friend are new, she has been able to sense dead bodies-or at least those that have been murdered-and the imprints that attach to their killers since she was a little girl. Sixteen-year-old Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her unusual so-called gift. and the boy who would never let anything happen to her. Published by HarperTeen on March 16, 2010Ī gripping tale of a girl with a morbid ability that could lead her to a killer.
