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Finding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. In this chillingly beautiful mystery, only the obsessive spirit of youth can save a desperate town from the savagery within.
Synopsis:
Ava Bonney is a compassionate and studious fourteen-year-old girl with a dark secret: she has an obsessive interest in the macabre. She is fascinated by the rate at which dead animals decompose. The highway she lives by regularly offers up gifts of roadkill, and in the dead of night Ava loves nothing more than to pull her latest discovery into her roadside den and record her findings.
One night, she stumbles across the body of her classmate and, fearing that her secret ritual could be revealed, she makes an anonymous call to the police. But when Detective Seth Delahaye is given the case, Ava won’t step back—not while teenagers continue to go missing.
Racing alongside the police or against them, Ava is determined to figure out who is hunting her classmates before she becomes the next prey. How hard can it be to track a killer?
Review:
I LOVE Ava! If you like the Enola Holmes or Flavia de Luce novels, then you've found their modern equivalent in Ava. She's spunky, curious, likes to do her own experiments, but is a modern child with modern issues. At first she is adversarial to Det Delahaye, as she doesn't want him to find out what she does in the middle of the night, but soon she realizes she is the only one who can help him solve the murder and keep other children safe. But who is the murderer-another child or an adult? This roller coaster keeps you reading long into the night and begging for another book featuring Ava, even if it's set after she's grown and joined the police herself!
About the Author:
Marie Tierney was a finalist in the Daily Mail First Novel competition. When she isn’t researching criminal history, she writes plays and poetry. Born and raised in Birmingham, England, Marie dedicated almost twenty years to working in education before becoming a full-time writer. She lives in East Anglia with her husband and son.
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