Spirit and Dust

Zusatztext [ STAR ] "This is one of the best YA novels of the year."— School Library Journal , starred [ STAR ] “You can’t really beat a story that has hijinks, romance, and…the bones of Sue the T-rex.”— The Bulletin , starred “This likable, uber-competent heroine’s adventure combines elements of paranormal romance and fast-paced thriller.”— Kirkus Reviews “Clement-Moore delivers some lovely comic zingers in a romance.”— Booklist Informationen zum Autor ROSEMARY CLEMENT-MOORE is the author of Prom Dates from Hell , Hell Week , Highway to Hell , Brimstone , The Splendor Falls , Texas Gothic , and Spirit and Dust . She grew up on a ranch in south Texas and now lives and writes in Arlington, Texas. You can visit her at ReadRosemary.com or follow her on Twitter @rclementmoore. Klappentext Fans of Veronica Mars and Buffy the Vampire Slayer will love Daisy Goodnight--she can speak to the dead. It's not the result of a head injury or some near-death experience. She was just born that way. And she's really good at it. Good enough to help the police solve the occasional homicide. But helping the local authorities clear cold cases is one thing. Being whisked out of chemistry class by the FBI and flown to the scene of a murder/kidnapping in Minnesota? That's the real deal. Before the promotion can go to Daisy's head! she's up to her neck in trouble. The spirits are talking! and they're terrified. There's a real living girl in danger. And when Daisy is kidnapped by a crime boss with no scruples about using magic-and Daisy-to get what he wants! it looks like hers is the next soul on the line. [STAR] "You can't really beat a story that has hijinks! romance! and…the bones of Sue the T-rex."-The Bulletin [STAR] "This is one of the best YA novels of the year."-School Library Journal! starred review "This likable! uber-competent heroine's adventure combines elements of paranormal romance and fast-paced thriller."-Kirkus Reviews "Clement-Moore delivers some lovely comic zingers in a romance."-Booklist Leseprobe 1 The local cops kept staring at me. I couldn't decide if it was the plaid miniskirt in subarctic temperatures, or the fact that they'd never seen anyone talk to the dead before. At the moment, I was mostly shivering, but that had more to do with the gray Minnesota afternoon than residual psychic energy, though there was that, too. "What do you see?" asked Agent Taylor, my FBI handler and the reason--other than the dead man--that I was there. I had to swallow before I could speak. I like to pretend I'm all Daisy Goodnight, kick-ass teen psychic, when really most of the time I'm all Please don't let me puke in front of the FBI. The medical examiner had carted off the body of the man I was supposed to read, and a daylong drizzle had washed away any physical traces from the sidewalk. But an afterimage--one that only I could See--remained where he'd fallen, the vivid imprint of his violent death stamped into the intangible fabric of reality. It wasn't a pretty sight. I mean, the guy hadn't been pretty even before someone had shot him in the head. "One guy. Big, bruiser type." I gestured to the curb. "Shot here, in the back of the head with a small-caliber pistol, I think." Psychic traces of him smeared the sidewalk and grass beyond. Unlike bloodstains, they couldn't be rinsed away by the rain. "Bruiser definitely died here, but it looks like maybe he was dragged out of sight, around the back of this building." Chief Logan, the local guy in charge, exchanged looks with Agent Taylor and his partner, Agent Gerard, but I already knew I was right. Not because I was Daisy Goodnight, kick-ass psychic for the FBI, but because the death was so recent that the details were way more clear than I needed. Standard ...

Product details

• Authors: Rosemary Clement-Moore
• Publisher: Random House Childrens Books US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.05.2014
• EAN: 9780385740814
• ISBN: 978-0-385-74081-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 211 mm x 21 mm