“My Parents wouldn’t let me go out if they knew there was a killer on the loose.”

Would you risk your life, to save someone else?

In April Henry’s The Body in the Woods, three outcasts, Ruby, Alexis and Nick, do that everyday after school. Welcome to Portland, Oregon, where the best thing you can do to guarantee yourself admission in college, is to join the Search and Rescue team. Meet Ruby, a outcast who was never really socially accepted. Nick, who’s father died in the Iraq war, now must keep up his legacy with SAR. Alexis, a sweet girl trying to cover up her mother’s current mental illness. While going on a search for an autistic man, the teens make a troubling discovery. A body. A girl their age. Dead. The autistic man has been found alive, but this is a whole different. And if they think the murders are going to stop.

They are Wrong.

The Body in the Woods can hardly be described by words. It has action, mystery, and tear-jerking moments with the main characters. The Body in the Woods is part of the Last Point Seen Mystery series. It is also a Book Madness book for our school library. The ending is spectacular, you’ll never guess who the murderer is. I would rate this awesome book 5 stars.