Cammie's mother, it turns out, disappeared long ago but has recently been making contact with her daughter and in keeping it a secret from her father and grandmother has found cause for much brooding. Home, in this case, consists of her father and her grandmother Mawmaw, a woman straight out of turn-of-the-century Irish Boston with her lilting voice, compact body and refrigerator full of boxty. Aside from that, nothing seems amiss and the unofficial Assistant Coroner of Silverton, Colorado returns home. It seems there's something odd about the dead dog - it's brain looks fried and it's eyes have exploded out of its head. She's going because her father, the town coroner, isn't available and the deputy needs a second opinion before tossing the dog into the woods and writing it off as road kill. We open with Cameryn being driven by the local sheriff's deputy to a site in the hills to check out a dead dog. Spoiler alert: I give away the most obvious ending this book provides. Is it cheating to just say " CSI for teens"? By the way, this gets pretty graphic, so don't read this review and eat at the same time.
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