Friday, September 19, 2008

CSI for Teens

High school senior Cameryn Mahoney, a forensic pathologist in the making, assists her father, the county coroner for Silverton, Colorado, on his cases in a new series of murder mysteries by Alane Ferguson. I haven't had a chance to read the first book in the series, The Christopher Killer, but I have read the second book, The Angel of Death. In this book Cameryn not only has to deal with the mysterious death of her English teacher, but also with the possibility of meeting with her long-missing mother and her attraction to Kyle, the most popular boy in school. Just like the CSI television programs, we follow Cameryn through all the forensic steps -- autopsy, interviewing witnesses, and the struggle to make sense of the evidence. This series is written for the upper junior high and high school and does include some grisly details. It doesn't seem to matter what order you read the books since each book is a separate case. I was able to understand what the characters were doing without having read the first book. The IMC will soon be adding the first book and a brand-new third book. Watch for all of them in the New Books section of the wall shelves.

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