Unable to ignore the gaps in the case, Pip sets out to prove Sal’s innocence, beginning with interviewing his younger brother, Ravi. Andie’s body was never recovered, and Sal was assumed by most to be guilty of abduction and murder. The original investigation concluded with most of the evidence pointing to Sal, who was found dead in the woods, apparently by suicide. For her senior capstone project, Pip researches the disappearance of former Fairview High student Andie, last seen on April 18, 2014, by her younger sister, Becca. Pip has known and liked Sal since childhood he’d supported her when she was being bullied in middle school. 14 & up)Įveryone believes that Salil Singh killed his girlfriend, Andrea Bell, five years ago-except Pippa Fitz-Amobi. Weak characterizations bring down this promising murder mystery. Violet, despite her talent for finding bodies, is ultimately a run-of-the-mill damsel in distress, who injures herself and has to be rescued from the killer by Jay. This makes the ending feel anticlimactic even as the murderer threatens Violet’s life. Although the killer actually joins in the narration, he is not named, so readers never really have a chance to sleuth out who it might be, so readers never really have a chance to sleuth out who it might be. The whodunit aspect of the novel, however, is less intriguing than the romance. Her crush turns out to be reciprocal, something that will appeal to romantics everywhere. Complicating matters are Jay’s sudden ascent to hotness and popularity and Violet’s massive crush on him. A serial killer plagues her small eastern Washington town, so Violet enlists the help of her best friend, Jay, to find the killer by matching his echoes with those of the victims.

Murderers and their victims give off psychic echoes that cause Violet to have synesthetic reactions. Violet doesn’t see dead people, but she does hear, smell and taste them.

The body finder