Is he in shock? Is he just an odd duck? Why is he suddenly interested in Cammie and how might he be connected to all of this strangeness? How is Cammie going to handle the attentions of a boy and her reappearing mother, gruesome forensic science and teen hormones while keeping a lid on it all? He's the one who discovered the dead English teacher, and he's also taking quite a shine to Cammie.

Cammie steels herself against the icky thought of seeing a former teacher dead, naked and baked to try and solve the mystery.Įnter Kyle the Eagle Scout. Forensic protege wunderkind Cammie spots all the vital information but can't figure out what caused the school English teacher to meet such an unseemly demise. Here we are, another corpse cooked inside out and it's eyes exploded. The opening chapters drag as supporting characters are trotted out and relationships are cobbled into place so that the story can resume unhindered with such details as character or emotional development. Cammie's mother, it turns out, disappeared long ago but has recently been making contact with her daughter and in keeping it a secret from her father and grandmother has found cause for much brooding. Home, in this case, consists of her father and her grandmother Mawmaw, a woman straight out of turn-of-the-century Irish Boston with her lilting voice, compact body and refrigerator full of boxty. Aside from that, nothing seems amiss and the unofficial Assistant Coroner of Silverton, Colorado returns home. It seems there's something odd about the dead dog - it's brain looks fried and it's eyes have exploded out of its head. She's going because her father, the town coroner, isn't available and the deputy needs a second opinion before tossing the dog into the woods and writing it off as road kill. We open with Cameryn being driven by the local sheriff's deputy to a site in the hills to check out a dead dog. Spoiler alert: I give away the most obvious ending this book provides. Is it cheating to just say ' CSI for teens'? By the way, this gets pretty graphic, so don't read this review and eat at the same time.

The angel of death by alane ferguson