A pleasant read

Were I to wish for one possibility, it would be truth in sentencing for criminals. Not as proposed through legal wrangling by lobbyists, but the actual facts as seen through the eyes of crime victims themselves.
In this book, the dead speak of their own tragedy that has befallen them through their own words, but not in conventional means. Imagine if you will the ability to pick up an object and know exactly who touched it before you, and their hopes, dreams and sadness that surrounded them. Such is the discipline of psycometry...the ability to touch an object and know it's history.
Natalie Lindstrom, the main character, has just such an ability, and can actually see what the victim saw just before their demise.Employed by both the police and FBI, Natalie is called on to testify in court cases involving lives cut short by murderous acts. As a criminal justice nerd, this idea is fascinating to me, as are the reprocussions. The few characters in this book with this talent have strikingly violet colored eyes, and thus stick out like a sore thumb amongst others. Contact lenses are their salvation. ( i think that sentence is one of the oddest things i have typed, and cannot help but giggle at the thought of salvation through lenses)
Picture if you knew someone in your town had this skill, and it was proven...how would others react? They would both be vilified and praised, stalked and shunned.
But the dead speak...and they speak volumes in this book.
Pick it up, it's worthy of a summers day, as are it's sequels