Friday Finds (Jan 22)

Friday Finds hosted by Should Be Reading asks us to share what great books we heard about or discovered in the past week.

My pick this week is a Young Adult novel called The River by Mary Jane Beaufrand. It’s being released on February 10, 2010 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Here’s a bit about it from Amazon.com…

Veronica Severance feels cut off from the world. Forced to move from the city to rural Oregon with her parents, she is haunted by loneliness and by the chilling sounds of the Santiam, the river that runs through her backyard.

Through the fog of isolation, Ronnie finds herself becoming close with Karen, a young girl who she babysits. But when she discovers Karen’s body on the banks of the Santiam, the victim of a supposed accident, Ronnie feels compelled to uncover the truth.

As she becomes increasingly obsessed with solving Karen’s death, Ronnie is led deeper and deeper into the woods surrounding the river and to the dark secret hidden within its midst.

The River is a darkly atmospheric story of murder, isolation, obsession and dark secrets that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.

This really sounds good. I’ve been getting more in interested in Young Adult books lately. There sure are a lot of good ones out there. What about you? What are you waiting for this week?

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