Genre: Mystery
Mass Market Paperback; Digital Book
ISBN #: 9780425282748
Berkley Publishing
304 Pages
$7.19; $7.99 Amazon
November 1, 2016
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Since she left her psychiatric practice in New York City to open up a psychic shop in her hometown on Bay Island, Cass Donovan has given her fair share of readings to conflicted customers. But what she sees in Ellie Callahan's future doesn't bode well.
When Ellie's mother, Marge, publicly confronts Cass about the reading, the embarrassment makes her want to curl up and die. And when she stumbles across Marge's body - and becomes a suspect in her murder - Cass is suddenly the star of Bay Island's rumor mill.
Cass is determined to prove her innocence and save Ellie from meeting the fate in her unfortunate vision. But even with the help of her friends Bee and Stephanie, Cass will have to channel some serious sleuthing instincts to find the real killer...
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Cass Donovan owns a psychic shop on Bay Island, and one day she is giving a reading to a friend, but sees something disturbing in it. Later she is confronted by the woman's mother, who tells her to stay away from her daughter. When the woman, Marge, is later found dead by Cass, the police think she's to blame. But since she knows she didn't do it, and she's still worried about her friend Ellie, she feels her only choice is to find the real killer and free herself from suspicion.
This is rare for me, but I couldn't even finish this book. Cass is accused of a murder and immediately taken in for questioning although there was nothing to tie her to the crime. Why do I say that? Because she just found the body!. The killer would have no way of knowing who would enter the building first, so did they just pick her name out of a hat and place evidence there? I doubt it.
But the next thing she does is break into the dead woman's house! That's right - breaks into her home and steals her dog, which doesn't make any sense why the dog was there in the first place. Why didn't the police go over to the dead woman's house right after finding the body? If they had followed procedure - which is to gather evidence and that includes going to a dead person's home to see if there were clues to why someone would kill them - they already would have known about the puppy and rescued it. A person is murdered, but the cops don't go to the dead woman's house for clues. Sure, sure. It happens all the time in real life. She also leaves her prints all over the house...while being suspected of the murder. Not even her best friend - whose husband is a cop - knows enough to tell her that she's not going to go along with this if she does it.
Not to mention the fact that she's extremely clumsy and has constant headaches (when she gets stressed). Which is practically the entire book. She also can't handle confrontation. Let's get this straight: she used to be a psychiatrist - but can't handle stress or confrontations. Sure, that makes sense. How did that work with her patients? It can be a stressful job, and I’m sure that being a psychiatrist, she must have been put in more than one confrontational situation. (But it explains why she has no backbone and didn't respond to Marge when she was being attacked).
Unfortunately, Cass is one of those women who are just Too Stupid To Live, and the book was just too boring for me to finish. Two stars for the writing, but I won't continue with this series.
https://www.amazon.com/Death-First-Island-Psychic-Mystery/dp/0425282740/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1988948392
More on Lena Gregory's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/g/lena-gregory/
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