Winter weather is discouraging the tourists, so Cass Donovan
needs to devise another way to earn income to keep her
store, Mystical Musings, afloat. Cass carefully observes
people, a skill she utilized regularly in her psychiatric
practice, and those skills aid her in providing psychic
readings for others. She can't turn down an opportunity to
do a group reading at a reportedly haunted house, and the
event quickly blossoms into a weekend murder mystery affair.
Unfortunately, murder turns all too real when a guest if
found dead. Cass is going to have to uncover the murderer if
she hopes to save her business as well as her reputation.
OCCULT AND BATTERY is the second book in the Bay
Island Psychic Mystery series but can easily be read
on its own merits. OCCULT AND BATTERY takes a more
paranormal turn than the first book as Lena Gregory is
beginning to take full advantage of Cass' skills as a
psychic. The bond between Cass, Bee Maxwell, and Stephanie
Lawrence has already been established in the first book but
it truly blossoms in OCCULT AND BATTERY so readers
unfamiliar with the characters can still appreciate and
enjoy their friendship.
Cass and her two best friends, Bee Maxwell and Stephanie
Lawrence, are a great combination and a lot of fun to spend
time with. Cass is beginning to settle down a bit and is
much less impetuous than in the first book. I like that we
get to meet her ex-husband and former best friend as it
gives a lot of insight into her character, as well as her
personal trust issues that plagued her with Bee in the first
book.
Lena Gregory really kicks it up a notch with OCCULT AND
BATTERY! I had a hard time putting the book down, as I
wanted to know whodunnit (and no, I didn't guess correctly)
even as the twists and turns kept me in suspense. OCCULT AND
BATTERY solidifies the Bay
Island Psychic Mystery series as a must-read for me!
A murder mystery weekend becomes a little too real in the
latest Bay Island Psychic Mystery from the author of
Occult and Battery—Cass Donovan uses her skills as a former psychiatrist to
get away with pretending to be psychic, but she’s not about
to let anyone get away with murder...
The outlook is not so good for Cass’s psychic shop, Mystical
Musings. With winter winds discouraging tourists from riding
the ferry from Long Island to Bay Island, Cass hopes to draw
in more customers by hosting a murder mystery weekend,
complete with a séance, in a supposedly haunted mansion.
But Cass begins to lose her spirit when her ex-husband shows
up, along with his fiancée—Cass’s ex-best friend. Then,
after one of the guests is found dead, a blizzard blows in,
trapping everyone inside with a murderer. Now Cass must
divine who did the deed before her reputation and her
livelihood fade away.