THE DIVINERS by Libba Bray

In 1926, Evie is sent from her small town home in Ohio to live with her uncle in New York City after a "practical joke" backfires.  Her Uncle Will, who runs a museum in New York City dedicated to the occult, is soon called on by the police to help catch a serial murderer, and Evie joins in trying to catch the murderer before he can strike again.  We soon learn that Evie has a special power to know what a person is thinking, what he has seen, what he has experienced by holding an object that person owns.  This power is valuable in trying to catch the murderer.  Other intriguing characters in the book include a Ziegfeld girl, a bootlegger, and a numbers runner.  Romance, action, and suspense abound in this well written first volume of a planned trilogy.

Readers who enjoyed Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty series will definitely want to read this.  Like that series, The Diviners is historical fiction with a supernatural element.  Highly recommended.