Everyone thought she'd run away with a boy at the time and now people are remembering other girls who 'disappeared' in the past. Her 'gift' which she keeps secret even from her Grandmother tests her endurance when a former friend of hers' bones are found up on the mountain approximately four years old.

Otherwise the only special thing about Dee is that she sees dead people. Fourteen year-old Dee has been raised by Grandmother as her own mother ran off with a travelling show when Dee was only a few months old, her father is unknown.

The town does have a doctor, has for some years and business isn't what it used to be but some folks still would rather trade goods with Grandmother than pay cash to the doctor. Grandmother is the town's midwife and also the one people come to for 'medicines' when they are sick. Reason for Reading: I love a good ghost story.Ĭomments: Set in the Bruce Peninsula area of Ontario at the time that the soldier's had returned home from WWI, Dee and her Grandmother live in a small cabin at the outskirts of a rural town. Other girls from town soon go missing as well, and Dee becomes involved in the search when the missing girl is her best friend, Clooey. Everyone in town is terrified, and the town gossips are in their glory, with the worst of them pointing fingers at Dee's Gran. Everyone thought she had eloped,but it turns out she's been murdered. Early one morning, the body of a young girl is found in a clearing on the mountain, and it turns out to be that of a girl Dee was friends with. dee has another gift, as well - one that allows her to see the spirits which wander the mountain. Her grandmother is the village midwife, and Dee uses her gift for comforting people to assist her.

When the skeleton of one of Dee's friends is found up in the hills, Dee is brought into the investigation of a serial killer.ġ4-year old Defiance (Dee) lives with her Gran in a small town in Ontario, by Pike's Mountain. Dee is also somewhat pyschic - she can see ghosts, and often has 'feelings' that warn her of things. She's never met her mother and believes her to be a singer in a travelling show. Dee is 14 and lives with her grandmother, who is the village midwife. It's about a 14 year old girl in rural Ontario in around the depression era. I found it a bit too predictable in some places, though - it wasn't too hard to figure out who the killer was, and I guessed about Clarence chapters before it was revealed. I like this one - it was well written, and I liked the characters.

Haunted by Barbara Haworth-Attard