A Vision of Murder
Victoria Laurie
Signet, Dec 2005, $6.99, 304 pp.
ISBN: 0451217152

Professional Psychic Intuitive Abby Cooper and her friend Dave McKenzie form a partnership to purchase a fixer-upper that they will repair and sell. However, instead of the handy Dave making repairs, he learns first hand by a drill targeting his head. Abby and her boyfriend FBI Agent Dutch Rivers, who is recovering from a gunshot wound, conclude that the place is haunted by a ghost who they quickly find out was murdered inside the house. Abby believes the only way to rid the house of its unwanted resident is to solve the homicide.

She quickly learns that to solve her investigation she must first locate a buried cache of jewels lost during World War II. However, someone else wants the gems, and has killed before and will do so again. On top of that Abby needs to calm her ghost, who is irate that Dave is making changes to her home; that seems simple enough for a psychic, however as Abby knows seeing a ghost makes her want to flee into the night, so to chat with a specter is giving her the willies.

The latest Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye tale is a fabulous who-done-it in which the spirited sensitive sleuth must uncover the killer of the ghost haunting her recently purchased fixer-upper. The storyline is fast-paced, as the heroine and her injured boyfriend investigate the case, only to find it getting increasingly complex and dangerous from the mortal realm. Fans will highly praise this fine ghostly murder mystery.

Harriet Klausner