If you have ever wanted a best friend who happens to be a psychic, who is brave enough to touch a murder weapon knowing exactly what she is about to experience, and who somehow makes you laugh in the middle of a horror — Gabby McAllister is about to be your new favorite person.
Gabby has a gift she never asked for and a town that has never accepted her for it. When she touches objects connected to violence she sees everything — the fear, the pain, the final moments of someone who did not deserve to die. She knows what she is walking into every single time. She does it anyway.
Message in the Bones is where it all begins. A construction site. A set of skeletal remains. A cold case that sends Detective Lucas Hartley — her brother's partner and the man she is absolutely not thinking about — straight to her door. The moment Gabby touches those bones she is in. All the way in. And so are you.
This is the book that starts an eight book obsession. Readers finish it and immediately grab Book 2. They finish Book 2 and immediately grab Book 3. By Book 4 they are rearranging their schedules around Gabby's world and they do not even feel bad about it.
Creepy, cozy, completely addictive, and threaded through with a quiet faith that makes every dark moment feel survivable. River Bend is the kind of small town that looks peaceful from the outside — and Gabby is the kind of protagonist who makes you feel like you have known her your whole life.
Start here. You will not regret it.