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Well, that's Odd. It’s been a while since I read one of Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas books. I’ve always liked his young psychic character, and it was good to reconnect. In Odd Hours, the fourth installment in the series, we find young Odd living on the California coast, having been drawn there from his last stop – a monastery in the mountains – by his psychic magnetism. He doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do in Magic Beach, but he’ll recognize it when he sees it. In the meantime, Odd is living with a retired actor, laying low and taking [...]

Psychic (Cozy) Friends Network I am 100% in favor of cozy mysteries with supernatural elements. Maybe even 150%. I enjoy a good cozy, but wrap it up with a paranormal bow and you’ve got me hooked. As long as you play the rest of your cozy cards right, of course. Just You Wait is the fourth installment in the Grace Street Mysteries by Jane Tesh. Our protagonist is private detective David Randall. Randall (as he is most often called) lives in a boarding house on – you guessed it – Grace Street. Also living in the house are newlyweds Angie [...]

Never Choose a Book Based on its Cover Author: Kathleen Anne Barret I’m a sucker for a sale, especially when that sale involves a box filled with assorted cozy mysteries. Purchased after a bidding war on eBay, I now have bursting boxes filled with brightly colored and broken paperbacks – something I justify on a daily basis as an inexpensive way to discover new authors and cozy series. Delving my hand into the pile without reading the back cover blurb or researching the author and work on Amazon, I came out with Milwaukee Summers Can be Deadly and decided to [...]