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Cold Touch (Extrasensory Agents #2)

by Leslie Parrish (Goodreads Author)

4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 · rating details · 343 ratings · 73 reviews

Since being gifted--or cursed--with her ability to touch a lifeless body and relive the victim's final moments, Olivia Wainwright has died a hundred deaths. She hears the screams, tastes the fear; feels the excruciating pain--and every glimpse into this darkness draws her deeper into danger.

Now, though, she's met a man who offers a glimmer of light. Savannah Detective Gabe...more

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Published July 5th 2011 by Signet (first published July 2011)

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Aug 06, 2011 Melindeeloo rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal-romance

A murdered woman gets a chance to solve her own murder...

I am not normally much for suspense but Cold Touch worked for me on so many fronts. I loved both of the leads, Liv who has the 'cold touch' and works for a pyschic detective agency and police detective Gabe who is not really open to all things 'woo woo'. I thought that the romance between them was well done with a quick attraction but no quick hook-up. The Gabe's character is honorable and the author doesn't leave that behind to go for th...more

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Aug 06, 2011 Shannon C. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: romantic suspense fans, paranormal romance fans

Shelves: magic-special-powers, suspense-mystery, favorites

4.5 stars: great romantic suspense with a touch of paranormal

What a surprise! This book was so great--especially the last half which had me on the edge of my seat. The mystery/suspense was very well done. I didn't see the ending coming at all--a total shocker! The romance parts were also handled well--the relationship built over the book and they didn't immediately fall into bed. I liked the main characters and supporting cast.

One of my favorite new releases this year! I think it will appeal to...more

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Dec 19, 2011 Carole rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was a good, fast-paced read about a woman who is kidnapped from her bedroom at the age of 15, has a near death experience when he abductor tries to drown her and as a result of this horrible experience develops an ability to touch the body of a victim and re-live that person's last 2 minutes and 10 seconds of life on earth. This is the 1st in a trilogy--the 2nd in the series "Cold Sight" is already waiting for me on the hold shelf of my library! Since I wrote this-I have discovered that thi...more

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Apr 06, 2011 Holly rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011-out-do-yourself, 211-books-in-2011, march-2011, read-in-2011

Another excellent paranormal suspense from Parrish. I really liked that there was more emphasis on the paranormal elements this time around. That was a disappointment for me in the last book.

Olivia was everything I expected her to be. I was really moved by her past and her gift. What she had to deal with was heartbreaking and horrifying.

Gabe was a good counterpoint for her. He balanced out some of her darker edges. That's not to say he didn't have some darkness of his own. He did. Though I don'...more

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Jan 28, 2013 Doris rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: paranormal-romance, favorites

This book worked for me on several fronts. First, I enjoy books which touch on the paranormal, on those things unseen which cannot be explained by logic and reason. Second, I enjoyed that there was a final solution, even though it obviously is part of a series. Third, I enjoyed that this really was a romance, not a quick excuse to get the characters into bed.

Olivia, aka Livvie, was murdered as a teen, a detail which puzzled me until the explanation of what that meant to her, and her family. As...more This book worked for me on several fronts. First, I enjoy books which touch on the paranormal, on those things unseen which cannot be explained by logic and reason. Second, I enjoyed that there was a final solution, even though it obviously is part of a series. Third, I enjoyed that this really was a romance, not a quick excuse to get the characters into bed.

Olivia, aka Livvie, was murdered as a teen, a detail which puzzled me until the explanation of what that meant to her, and her family. As a result of dying, she was able to communicate at a level with the dead, so as to enact their deaths, allowing closure and in some cases justice.

I thought she was believable. That in itself makes the book a notch above normal. She was from a wealthy family, but did not live on her inheritance or depend on her family for her living. She also did not run to them when times got tough or she was confronted by issues. There have been few women heroines in recent novels that had that kind of strength without also being a pseudo-military-fake-guy-with-boobs type of character.

I also liked Gabe, in that he was portrayed as strong, somewhat chauvinistic, but still a good looking, intelligent man, who, even if he does not believe in ghosts and physics, is willing to step outside his comfort zone and ask for help when all other leads, fall by the wayside.

I liked that the couple was attracted but tried to ignore the attraction, trying to work together and be professional and honorable.

The psychic detective agency which Olivia is a part of was interesting also, and I enjoyed the various characters. I would say that I would have liked to know more about Aidan, but apparently the previous book in the series focused on him, and now I need to find that book and read it. The variety of "powers" in the entire agency was good – it felt right. The only disagreement I had was with Mick, and I am not quite sure why.

Other characters – I loved Ty. He was sweet, powerful, and very adult while still having a bit of the child in him to allow him to want to mingle and be "one of the guys".

The final reason this book gets a 5-star rating: the only reason I knew who the killer was before the rest of the "people" involved did was, I had the advantage of seeing all the sides while the team was limited to the known facts and the good-guy viewpoint. While showing the murders and the 'reasoning' behind it, including other action, my thoughts trended towards another person as behind it all. Even when I knew they were not, still the suspicion that they could be involved was there.

Overall – very well written, believable, likable characters, and a good resolution. I will read more in this series and by this author.
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Oct 27, 2012 Denise rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Olivia Wainwright has a gruesome and unique gift - she can touch a dead body or bone and relive the last two minutes and ten seconds of their life. Not just see it, but LIVE it, in every sense of the word and each time she does, she feels herself losing pieces of herself.

Gabe Cooper is a down-to-earth Savannah detective who is working a case involving the body of a boy discovered in the walls of a burned out bar. When Olivia comes to him offering to help identify the boy, he is intrigued by her...more

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Jan 16, 2012 Wendy Hines rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

At age fifteen, Olivia 'Liv' is kidnapped. While tied up in an old bar, she begs a young boy, Jack, to help her escape. She believes he was either kidnapped, too, or the kidnapper is his father. But he doesn't help, and Liv is murdered.

Now, she worked for eXTreme Investigations, a paranormal detective agency. Since her death, her descent into a portal of darkness and then her subsequent return to the living,Liv has had a rare gift. By touching a corpse, she can see the last two minutes and ten...more

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Aug 26, 2011 BamaGal rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: romantic-suspense

I enjoyed this book a great deal. It was good enough that it would have stood well as a suspense/thriller; but the romantic element was an added touch, and deftly done.

Olivia is a member of the Extrasensory Agents. Her talent is that when she touches a dead body, she relives the last 2 minutes and 10 seconds of their lives. She had been kidnapped as a teen, and drowned by her captor. She was clinically dead for 2 minutes and 10 seconds before being revived, and that is when her talent began. Sh...more

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Jul 10, 2011 Lee Ann rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If you think that the paranormal tag only includes vampires, werewolves, and other things that go "aargh" in the night, don't forget the first area through which romance writers exlored this genre: psychic talents.

Cold Touch is book 2 in the Extrasensory Agents series, and I enjoyed it so much that I now have to go backwards and get book 1, Cold Sight. In an extraordinarily effective (read scary/creepy) prologue, we relive 15 year old Olivia Wainwright's kidnapping and murder with her...and the...more

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Jun 29, 2011 Bookaholics rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Cold Touch by Leslie Parrish
Paranormal Romance -July 5th, 2011
5 stars

Olivia Wainwright has a strange gift/curse. When she touches the remains of a human, she can live through their last two minutes and ten seconds of that person’s life. With her ability, Olivia is an invaluable member of the eXtreme Investigations, a team of private detectives with special abilities. Olivia’s gift was activated when she was kidnapped and murdered at the age of fifteen. Since then, she has tried to live a normal...more Cold Touch by Leslie Parrish
Paranormal Romance -July 5th, 2011
5 stars

Olivia Wainwright has a strange gift/curse. When she touches the remains of a human, she can live through their last two minutes and ten seconds of that person’s life. With her ability, Olivia is an invaluable member of the eXtreme Investigations, a team of private detectives with special abilities. Olivia’s gift was activated when she was kidnapped and murdered at the age of fifteen. Since then, she has tried to live a normal life until she finds out that her kidnapper/murderer might still be at large.

Inspector Gabe Cooper of the Savannah’s police force is starting to believe that there’s a serial killer out there kidnapping and murdering little boys. He is investigating the mysterious remains of a murdered young boy. When Olivia shows up at the police station claiming to be able to identify the unknown boy’s, Gabe has an inkling that there’s a connection between her kidnapping case and the murders of the rest of little boys. To solve the crime, Gabe has no choice but to trust Olivia despite his disbelief of anything paranormal. Can the two of them stop this killer before he strikes again?

Leslie Parrish has done it again. I could not put down Cold Sight at all! This book is a riveting and tense read from start to finish. Olivia is clearly the main star of the book. Her character is so vivid and complex that you feel her trauma each time she has to use her gift. Though I understand her pain and her longing for a different life, the author has set up the story in such a way that there’s no choice for Olivia but to use her gift. Without Olivia, the plot would not happen. With such a strong female character, it is inevitable that Gabe pales in comparison. He’s nice and sweet and has his own baggage to lug around, but his character just doesn’t resonate as strongly as Olivia’s. Still, I was glad when they finally got together. Olivia definitely needs Gabe’s steadiness. He is her only hold on sanity.

Exciting and solidly written, this is a well-paced and engrossing thriller/romance. I can’t wait for the next in the series!!!

Reviewed by Pauline from the Bookaholics Romance Club

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Jun 28, 2011 Brie C. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Originally posted at Romance Around the Corner

I discovered Leslie Parrish almost a year ago just after the release of Cold Sight, the first book in the series. I came upon that book by mere chance, I didn’t know anything about the author but since the synopsis sounded interesting I gave it a try. I can only say that once I finished the book the first thing I did was go to Leslie’s website and see when the next book was coming out. I was instantly hooked.

The series centers around a group of peopl...more Originally posted at Romance Around the Corner

I discovered Leslie Parrish almost a year ago just after the release of Cold Sight, the first book in the series. I came upon that book by mere chance, I didn’t know anything about the author but since the synopsis sounded interesting I gave it a try. I can only say that once I finished the book the first thing I did was go to Leslie’s website and see when the next book was coming out. I was instantly hooked.

The series centers around a group of people working together on a private investigations agency. They are not regular detectives tough, they all have paranormal abilities. Aidan, the hero of the first book, is a psychic, Julia, a former police officer who is now in charge of the agency, just happens to see her dead partner’s ghost, and Derek can see the imprint of a violent death repeating over and over like an instant replay. Then there’s Olivia, our heroine, when she touches a dead body she can experience the person’s death, which means that she feels everything: the pain, the desperation, the fear, she basically becomes the victim. I’ve got to admit that when I read the first book the moment Olivia was introduced the only thing I could think about was how amazing her book was going to be.

Cold Touch opens with a cadaver being found after a fire, but the person didn’t die during the fire, he died years ago. When Olivia finds about it she feels the compulsion to go to the crime scene. It turns out that the dead person might be someone from Olivia’s past. At the crime scene she meets detective Gabe Cooper and they instantly hit it off. What the deal is with the dead guy, and how Olivia relates to him, is for you to find out. Since this one is a suspense novel I don’t want to give anything away, let’s just say that this book is full of twists and turns, as a good suspense novel should be.

I think this book had the perfect mix of suspense and romance and I was captivated by both aspects of the story. Leslie achieves something quite difficult in a romantic suspense, and that is to combine the perfect amount of interesting plot and compelling romance. A lot of times when reading a book like this one I end up finding it lacking in either the romance or the suspense department, I am happy that this is not the case here.

The leads are fantastic. I particularly liked Olivia because she was intelligent, caring, and a fighter. Her paranormal ability was one of the most original and interesting I have read in a long time. I don’t know where Leslie got the inspiration for it but it is one awful “gift”. The best part about Olivia was that she wasn’t afraid to show her need for the hero, she didn’t need to prove to anyone that she was strong, and she does not have one single “too stupid to live” moment.

Gabe was everything you want in a hero -at least everything I want- that means that he was southern (yep, southern gentlemen do it for me, well, southern anything, I even like white trash as long as it comes with the accent), he was sexy, an alpha male through and through but not a caveman, he had a sad past but just like Olivia he fought his way out of it and came out a better person, and most specially you could tell he honestly liked Olivia. Theirs was a very sweet story, even if it was surrounded by some very bad and scary things.

The secondary characters were also very likeable and entertaining. Ty, Gabe’s partner, was a blast; everyone at eXtreme Investigations was intriguing enough to make me want to see them as protagonist of their own books, and even Morgan the ghost was fun to read. The bad guy was pure evil, he was one scary bastard.

The ending was great, I for once didn’t see it coming, the book is not exactly a “who done it?” but the climax of the book has some very dramatic and out of the blue turns to appeal to any suspense reader. It has a lot of romance though, so if you are let’s say a Karen Rose fan, maybe you are not going to like this one, because is heavy on the romance.

The only thing I could live without is the epilogue. I felt it was a bit of a cop out to be honest, I don’t think the story needed it and it was too sugary for my taste. Read the book and you will know what I mean. Up until that point the book had a perfect score, but it bothered me a lot and that is why I give this one a 4, it doesn’t ruin the book but I think the book was better without it.

Overall I loved the story, and you don’t need to read the first book to understand this one, there are no spoilers or anything, so if you haven’t read Cold Sight and want to get right into Cold Touch go ahead and do it, but Cold Sight is a great book too and you don’t want to miss it.(less)

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Aug 28, 2011 Ami rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: romantic-suspense

If I can use one word to sum up this book, it will be "heartbreaking". There are so many heartbreaking moments: starting from Olivia's kidnapping story, to what happened to Jack, to losing a secondary character that has been part of the story. I curse Ms. Parrish for breaking my heart over and over again *sigh*.

But the story is amazing. Ms. Parrish introduce another set of likeable characters, in Olivia (whose "gift" is to experience the last 130 seconds of someone's life), Gabe, and Ty. When I...more

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Aug 15, 2011 marlene rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I breezed through Leslie Parrish's Cold Touch (EXtrasensory Agents #2), almost as fast as the first book, Cold Sight. Parrish created some of the most interesting characters I have met in a long time. The team is made up of psychic detectives and each one has a power that is more interesting than the next. In this book we get a closer look at Olivia, who is able to touch a dead body and relive the last 130 seconds of their lives.

(Torchwood fan?)

In this book psychic powers don't come easy. Aside...more

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Mar 03, 2013 Jojo rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: blark-not-ever, painful-to-read

Gosh, what's this non-stop intern dialog?
It's like when we have to see a movie in class but the teacher stops it every second to go on and on about some boring stuff about the background of the story (aff, it's so annoying!)
This book is like this:
Liv: - Hi!
Gabe: that's it. I can feel it. My super hot cop sense tells me that this woman has some super important information about this case. I'm sure that she is going to tell me something important that'll send me in the right direction and we'll s...more

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Oct 29, 2011 Sandra Valente rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: have-read, paranormal-psychic, 2011

Writing as Leslie Parrish she has outdone herself!

BRILLIANT: WOW - wow - wow, this series has seriously superseded others we have read in the murder/thriller/suspense genre! Leslie Parrish has also added the paranormal/psychic element. These two books are just brilliant - super fabulous!

Dark and gripping page after page but they also have that all important touch of humour, and with such a strong cast of characters that are beyond any we have come across, Leslie Parrish rightfully deserves hig...more

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Sep 25, 2011 Margaret rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This is the kind of book I normally would not pick up and read. Having read the "Black Cats" series and enjoyed them, decided to give the extreme investigators a go.
Reading Cold Sight, just knew I had to come back and find out more about these psychic investigators. This is Olivia story. By touching someone who has died she not only experience the pain of their last dying breath but also what thoughts were on their minds.
When she was 15, she was kidnapped. A boy she knew by the name of Jack save...more

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Feb 24, 2012 natercopia rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

His bare chest gleamed with moisture and steam from the shower, and his muscles rippled with every movement as he toweled his stillwet hair. Droplets fell from the damp strands, landing on his shoulders and sliding down. They left faint zigzag lines that disappeared into dark, wiry chest hair that swirled over the top of his chest.

Ok.........what a manly description!

I'm feeling a bit bland from the love attraction between Gabe and Olivia. I thought their love spark - seeking solace from each ot...more

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Apr 24, 2012 Jenny Delandro rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: cop-fbi-thrillers, fantasy

loving my random picks

Olivia died when she was 15, after being kidnapped...

she was revived after 2 minutes and 40 seconds

after that she finds out she can touch a dead body and see the last 2 min 40 sec of their life.....

Gabe is a cop who finds a small body in a building destroyed by fire...

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Jan 20, 2012 Amanda The Book Slayer rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: psychic-powers, mystery

I loved it. I thought this one was better than the first book in the series. It was intense throughout the whole book. In this book we get to watch Olivia Wainwright and Gabe Cooper fall in love. It all started with a Murder and almost being road kill.

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I felt like I was watching a Bones episode but with her being able to relive the last 2 minutes and 10 seconds on the victim life. You even get a sexy Booth or in this case Gabe!
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Recommend: This is a great book for all you Bones lovers,mystery solve...more

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Jul 14, 2011 Anita rated it 4 of 5 stars

Olivia is a person of privilege who is haunted by her past. She was kidnapped and killed when she was a teenager. Ever since then - she can experience a person's death by touching them. This helps her and her co-workers solve cold cases. Gabe is a Detective who doesn't believe in the paranormal. But that all changes when a cold case comes back to light by the finding of a child remains in a burned down building. This throws Olivia and Gabe in each others path. They are both drawn towards each ot...more

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Jul 07, 2011 Anna rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Romantic suspense happens to be a personal favorite for me, as far a genres go, and I can't think of a better combination, unless you were to add in a healthy dose of paranormal. At that point I can no longer express my joy because the two elements join together so perfectly. ...it's like chocolate and peanut butter, or rainstorms and baking. And as far as I am concerned The Extrasensory Agents are completely underrated, and I'm surprised that more people aren't talking about them.

The Extrasens...more

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Jul 25, 2011 Brenda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I won a copy of Cold Touch, but hadn't read the first book in the series, and I loved it. It can easily be read as a stand alone, but I want to read the first one too. I couldn't put it down once I started reading it for so many reasons. The characters are interesting, and the author made them come alive for me. Right from the start I wanted to know what would end up happening to them. It's an eerie, suspense filled plot that joins old fashioned detective work with paranormal elements. The roman...more

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Jul 20, 2011 Catherine rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy-paranormal-sci-fi, romance, series, fiction-vixen-reviews, first-reads-arcs-won-a-copy, bad-childhood, class-difference, contemporary, crime-police-mystery-private-invest, excellent, ghosts, magic-mystical-ability, prisoner-slave-kidnapped, rape-abuse, read-2011, suspense, serial-killer

4.5 Stars

Wow, this book gave me exactly what I needed, even though I didn’t realize I was missing anything. It was a refreshing palette cleanser that I was in dire need of. Romantic Suspense is one of the least frequent genres I read, but every once in a while I need a book like that to shake things up. You may be wondering why I mentioned the Romantic Suspense genre when the cover blurb reads like a Paranormal Romance. I guess it’s because this read like a Romantic Suspense book that had people...more

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Aug 26, 2011 L-D rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal-abilities-superpowers, pnr, mystery, cop-pi-bountyhunter, series

Olivia is an Extrasensory Agent who experienced a traumatizing event in her teens. Ever since this event, Olivia has been able to touch dead people and relive the last 2 minutes and 10 seconds of their life. After seeing a news story that could be related to her traumatizing event all those years ago, she partners up with the investigating officer, Gabe Cooper. I think that Leslie Parrish does a good job creating characters that are strong and likable. I enjoyed the interplay between Gabe and Ol...more

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Aug 03, 2012 Emily rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: para-romance, series

I enjoyed this much more than the first book. The transitions between the POVs were less jarring, the "other" story of the kidnapped person was less pervasive, and the characters were easier to connect with. I found the romance to be pretty unbelievable but it wasn't too distracting. There were some unresolved issues throughout that simply weren't addressed again--some that I thought were probably meant to be removed but were overlooked in the final draft.

Slight spoiler--this missing info is par...more

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Sep 12, 2011 Sherry rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Olivia Wainwright has a “gift” that she would rather not have. After a near death escape from a dangerous kidnapper at an early age, which left her with ability with to relive a person’s last minutes of life before they die? But now the past has come back to haunt her and as facts come to light, her history and a present day killer are now entwined. Will a skeptical police force and Detective Gabe Cooper be able to put the pieces of the puzzle together in time before there are more victims?

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Sep 06, 2011 ~Megan~ rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: psychics-paranormal-powers, pnr-uf, best-heroes-ever, cops-military, romantic-suspense

Fantastic!! It's been so long since I read the first book in this series, I'd almost forgotten what it was about. Luckily, the author gave me just enough info to jog my memory. It could definitely be read as a standalone, though I wouldn't miss the first one because it's just as good.

Ever since she was kidnapped as a young teen and was drowned to death (she was dead for 2 min 10 sec), Olivia has been blessed/cursed with a terrible ability. She can touch a corpse and relive the victim's last 2 m...more

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Jul 16, 2011 Saly rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: psychic-special-ability

Cold Touch is a book in the awesome Paranormal/Romantic Suspense series of Extreme Investigations, a group of people with different abilities. Julia their boss, a former cop, who has a ghost of her own(her former partner), Mick(who can touch objects and tells it's history), Derek(who can tell where people have died), Aidan(a psychic, from the first book) and Olivia.

Olivia comes from a wealthy Southern family but she was kidnapped from her own bed when she was fifteen and held for ransom. She nev...more Cold Touch is a book in the awesome Paranormal/Romantic Suspense series of Extreme Investigations, a group of people with different abilities. Julia their boss, a former cop, who has a ghost of her own(her former partner), Mick(who can touch objects and tells it's history), Derek(who can tell where people have died), Aidan(a psychic, from the first book) and Olivia.

Olivia comes from a wealthy Southern family but she was kidnapped from her own bed when she was fifteen and held for ransom. She never saw her kidnapper's face but she saw a little boy, extremely scared and abused who told her that she would be killed as soon as the ransom was paid. She doesn't believe it then she is drowned and is dead for two minutes, ten seconds. When she comes to she sees the little boy gave CPR to her, apologized and told her to run away. Olivia did vowing to save the boy. She then receives news that her kidnapper was killed and despite trying to they never found the boy.

Olivia's ability which she has been using for the past three years for Extreme Investigations, is the ability to touch and tell how someone died. It is a terrible ability that causes her pain and takes a part of her away every-time. She first discovered it at her grandmother's funeral. One day she sees a news report of some remains found nearby she was rescued, about a small boy that makes her think it was the boy she remembers Jake. She goes to the site where she almost gets crushed by a car and is rescued by Gabe, who is the detective on the case. She finds him attractive but walks away.

A few days later, when she sees the sketch of the boy found she is sure of who he is and goes to the station to talk to Gabe and tells him her story. Gabe is skeptical but understanding and then when he finds out what she does, ushers her out.

Gabe and Olivia come from opposite backgrounds and he does consider himself not suitable for her for a moment(Olivia sets him straight). He is a skeptic but when he sees what she can do gets outraged that nobody sees the toll it takes on her and cares for her. There are sparks between them and I loved how they gradually talked and then fell in bed. The book was amazing, I hated what happened to Gabe's partner, I saw some possibilities with Olivia's sister.

I loved everything about the book and I felt so bad for Julia and what she feels for Morgan(her ghost). Excellent book!(less)

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Jul 19, 2011 Sharon rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011-july-release, romance-suspense, romance-series

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4.5 out of 5 stars

I thoroughly enjoyed book 1, ‘Cold Sight’ in the Extrasensory Agents series so was excited to read its sequel, ‘Cold Touch’ and it didn’t disappoint! We see all of the characters from ‘Cold Sight’ return in this amazing sequel but this book focuses on Olivia Wainwright who has the most debilitating gift of them all, although I am sure they would call what they can do a curse rather than a gift.

Olivia is able to relive 2 minutes and 10 secon...more http://obsessionwithbooks.blogspot.com

4.5 out of 5 stars

I thoroughly enjoyed book 1, ‘Cold Sight’ in the Extrasensory Agents series so was excited to read its sequel, ‘Cold Touch’ and it didn’t disappoint! We see all of the characters from ‘Cold Sight’ return in this amazing sequel but this book focuses on Olivia Wainwright who has the most debilitating gift of them all, although I am sure they would call what they can do a curse rather than a gift.

Olivia is able to relive 2 minutes and 10 seconds of a dead person’s life and find out how they died, she recognized she had this ability following her own death and revival at the age of 15 when she was kidnapped, murdered and revived by her savior; a 12year old who was a prisoner himself and known only to her as ‘Jack’.

Savannah Detective Gabe Cooper is a skeptic of those claiming psychic abilities but after seeing Olivia touch and work out the cause of death in a case he is working on, he starts to question his beliefs; he also comes to accept the bones found in a bar fire could be related to Olivia’s own kidnapping.

Gabe along with his rookie partner Ty, an amazing character who bought a touch of humor to the story agree to work with eXtreme Investigations to try and solve a decade plus cold case, working together to piece together a timeline not making sense and a number of boys all disappearing with the same circumstances surrounding them.
The investigation was gruesome and detailed; what the team of eXtreme Investigations had to go through to solve it as well as others they work on would play havoc with their minds, the plot twists and turns kept the pacing even and the storyline fascinating.

Although Olivia had such an unusual ability that was slowly tearing at her soul, she had a sense of strength, compassion and independence, she put herself through hell time after time to help others, never thinking of the harm it was causing to her own psyche – I loved her as the main heroine. Gabe was her perfect match and protected her in a way she hadn’t been in a long time; their romance developed at a believable pace although their attraction was instant.

I loved the supporting characters and the setup for the rest of the series. They are complex characters each having their own potential for the future stories, I am really curious about Derek!

Parrish is an amazing writer who has created a very intense thriller; it is solidly written with the right amount of romance, mystery and action. I am looking forward to the next book in the series.
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Jul 16, 2011 Ana rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Olivia Wainwright has a terrifying "gift". When she touches a dead body she can live the last 2 minutes and 10 seconds of their life. The ability first showed up after she was kidnapped at the age of 15. It was an awful experience, she barely managed to escape with her life intact. The only reason she succeeded was Jake, a boy who "worked" with the kidnapper, who saved her life. So when she sees his face on the news, as an unidentified Jimmy Doe, she knows she must do whatever she can to repay h...more

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Leslie Parrish is the pseudonym for multi-published, award-winning romance author Leslie Kelly. The author of more than thirty light, sexy contemporary romance novels, her new Leslie Parrish books are an exploration of her second genre love--dark suspense. Giving in to her dark side has been an exciting dream-come-true, and she hopes to be able to continue to walk the balance beam between sexy, li...more

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“Would you believe I was in the neighborhood?”
“No."
“Well, how about that I needed to see you.”
“Why? Did one of my neighbors call and say my cat’s been stalking their bunny?”
One corner of his mouth went up. “You know, that sounds like a euphemism. A kind of salacious one”
“Ooh, big words for Mr. Average Joe street cop,” she said, knowing she sounded bitchy but unable to help it.
“Can you take out the angry eyes, Mrs. Potato Head, and just let me talk to you?” — 12 people liked it

“She closed her eyes briefly, feeling sick. Olivia had experienced strangulation before. Having to look directly into the face of the person who was killing you made the experience beyond awful. But there were worse things than that. Staring into the void of unresolved memory, living an eternal mystery, waking up night after night seeing the face of someone you desperately wanted to save but having not the slightest clue how to do it—all that was worse. If going through with this experience gave her the answers she needed, if it gave her peace, it would be well worth one-hundred-and-thirty seconds of fear and pain.” — 4 people liked it

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