The Lovely Bones

You know how there are books that end with that terribly depressing fact of one of the main characters dying? This book isn't like those. In this book, the main character, Susie Salmon, dies in the beginning.

Susie is killed by a man in the neighborhood. This isn't a mystery, we know the who, the how, and the why right from the start. Unlike everyone else involved with it. But this entire book takes place in Susie's heaven as she watches the people she loves on Earth.

She keeps wishing that she can help guide the investigators, her parents, anyone, to capturing Mr. Harvey, the man who murdered her.

I just love this book. I was so pleased when I saw the movie that they stayed really true to the book. I wish all movies made from books would be like that.