On My Wish List, Part 4

On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own 'On My Wishlist' post. If you want to know more click here.

All descriptions are from Goodreads.com.

OK, so it just occurred to me that I've been saying "wish list" when the title is "wishlist." Darn that being a grammarian ... my apologies to Book Chick City! (In keeping with the whole editor/grammarian thing, I'm gonna keep it this way – it's grammatically correct. Plus, all my other posts were this way, and my tags/labels ...)

Anyway, my wish list is ALWAYS growing. Always. So, let's see what I can come up with today ...

Columbine by Dave Cullen

I have wanted to read this one for quite some time now. That is a day from my life that I don't think I'll ever forget. I remember where I was, what I was doing, who I was with when the news broke. Whenever I think about that tragedy, my heart breaks. Such a sad time in our nation's history. I continue to pray for all affected.

Ten years in the making and a masterpiece of reportage, "Columbine" is an award-winning journalist's definitive account of one of the most shocking massacres in American history.

It is driven by two questions: what drove these killers, and what did they do to this town?

The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

I have seen this one all over book blogs, lately, and it sounds really good. Plus, I just LOVE the cover. So beautiful and compelling.

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 had tired of playing with. But now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he’s claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.

Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet on her quest to find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved to find herself hoping that Jay’s intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she’s falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer . . . and becoming his prey herself.

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