Look! Another Abby to add to my collection! This series is about psychic Abby Cooper and starts off with one of her clients dying not long after she warns her of something bad in her future. Abby couldn’t have known that her advice would have steered her client away from death but that doesn’t stop her for feeling somewhat responsible and wanting to help the police catch the killer. And though the police don’t quite know whether to believe her or not, including the lead investigator Dutch Rivers who likes Abby, they end up seeking out her help on other cases too. Now, I liked Abby and I liked Dutch and I liked the other characters we meet along the way. However, this series didn’t rate higher on my list because there times when I found the need to explain the psychic element bordered on tedious. Almost every mysteries series you read is going to re-explain things in every book. Publishers obviously want new readers to be able to pick up a book and not feel like they are missing pertinent information. I get that. What I dislike is when authors explain things exactly the same way every time or explain it multiple times in the same book. Abby often feels the need to try and make her gift easier for everyone to understand. It was cool the first time, to see how a psychic sees things (as I understand the author, Victoria Laurie, is a psychic as well) but it’s not necessary for us to understand every single time and often ended up feeling like a retread of the same information we already got. I found myself skimming sections of the book because of it and I’m guessing that wasn’t the intention. I’ll also say that the mysteries weren’t always that compelling either. If not for the characters making things interesting, it might have annoyed me more than it did.
