Finding Violet Park, or Me, the Missing, and the Dead in the U.S., is a young adult novel by Jenny Valentine, published by HarperCollins in 2007.
It is about a fatherless teenage boy, Lucas Swain, who finds an urn containing the ashes of the titular Violet Park abandoned in a minicab office and determines to lay her to rest.
HarperCollins published the first US edition April 2008, entitled Me, the Missing, and the Dead.
[4] Jenny Valentine is also the author of Broken Soup, The Ant Colony, and The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight.
During the research he finds out she had a connection to his missing dad and finally confronts questions he never thought about asking.