Blurb: She hates her power to detect missing things. When it leads her to a dead woman, can she smoke out a killer before she’s the next one to disappear?
Cora Gilbert wishes she weren’t a finder. Constantly overpowered by her strange ability to locate other people’s lost items, the lonely adoptee worries she’ll never have a normal life. But even she didn’t expect her gift to bring her to the site of a murdered corpse.
After the police find no clues to the culprit, Cora allows the victim’s fiancé to persuade her to help him dig up evidence. But when she discovers the handsome man is not what he seems, the sensitive tracker fears the only thing her talent will lead her to is her own unmarked grave.
Will Cora dowse her way towards answers or into the hands of a madman?
Review: Many might think the ability to find lost things a great gift, but Cora Gilbert believes it to be a curse. She can't have a normal life because the call of lost items is too powerful at times. Yet when she finds a murdered woman in an old cemetery, the one thing she has not found looms over her head. The killer believes she has it and will stop at nothing to get it. Can Cora gain control of her ability or will she be another body in the graveyard?
This is a wonderful paranormal mystery. It has a cozy feel as it takes place in a small town, and I do love a cozy mystery. A town with a tragic history: the original town is under the water of the lake after a huge mining "accident" several decades ago. The new town was built around the lake. Everything ties together nicely, and I love how the plot peels away to reveal more and more of the mystery. It is divided into two parts, and the first part feels like it comes too soon and cuts the story in half so harshly. Yet I understood the author was using it to help Cora find her own way. Cora feels very young and naive, and she grated on my nerves at certain times, but she grew and became stronger for it. Her ability is unusual, and I enjoyed the way the author portrayed the finding power as if it almost possessed Cora when the need to find the lost thing was strong. Her dog Rocky, oh my gosh! What a good boy! I'd be a sucker giving that dog treats too. Fantastic cast of characters. I especially liked Sam and Jessica.