Professional psychic Abby Cooper plans to fix up an old house and make a killing in the real estate market--until she encounters a killing of anoth...
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May 06, 2008
Leigh
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Although I loved the first in this series and liked the second, I'm starting to get really annoyed with this character. Although almost all female sleuths end up having a near-death experience once they solve the mystery, Abby seems to have a real death wish -- combined with a childish temper and bad attitude toward anyone making any sense. The kicker is that she, of all female sleuths, should know better. After all, she is PSYCHIC. It is still a fun, light read, but I'm finding it increasing
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Mar 26, 2010
CJ - You Carry On As If I Don't Love You
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Abby, Abby, Abby - she needs an anger management class and perhaps someone should sit her down and make her read Taming of the Shrew. I have faith that Abby can be redeemed but her attitude is making me wince.
Anyway- The plot centered around a haunting of the house that Abby, Dave and Cat recently bought to fix up. There is a sociopath involved, stolen diamonds from a prominent WW II Jewish family and a very angry evil ghost.
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Anyway- The plot centered around a haunting of the house that Abby, Dave and Cat recently bought to fix up. There is a sociopath involved, stolen diamonds from a prominent WW II Jewish family and a very angry evil ghost.
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Sep 01, 2008
Liisa
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I found "A Vision of Murder" (the third in the Psychic Eye Mystery series) by Victoria Laurie to be enjoyable but not on par with the first two books of the series.
We are once again treated to twists and turns, our favourite characters and this time a ghost with attitude but there was just something amiss about this adventure with Abby Cooper.
There were moments when I literally laughed out loud but I did find this story more predictable than the previous books. More...
We are once again treated to twists and turns, our favourite characters and this time a ghost with attitude but there was just something amiss about this adventure with Abby Cooper.
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Dec 15, 2008
Jen
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Jul 03, 2011
Babs
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Really, really enjoying this series. I so enjoyed the Ghost Hunter series, which I came across first, I was a bit leery about this series. Would it be as good? Would I enjoy characters?
Well, the worry was for nothing - I am bonded to the characters and enjoying the psychic mysteries very much. The Ghost Hunter character, M.J. Holliday makes an appeaser in this book too.
Abby and Dutch are a great couple. Abby is the psychic, while Dutch is her FBI boyfriend. I wis More...
Well, the worry was for nothing - I am bonded to the characters and enjoying the psychic mysteries very much. The Ghost Hunter character, M.J. Holliday makes an appeaser in this book too.
Abby and Dutch are a great couple. Abby is the psychic, while Dutch is her FBI boyfriend. I wis More...
Mar 28, 2011
Paula
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This series never seems to fail and gets better and better with each book. This one opens up with Abby's boyfriend getting shot in the rear. Abby rushes back to play nursemaid to her boyfriend. Meanwhile Abby, Cat and Dave go into a business to fix up lost cause houses and fix them up and resell them. What the three didn't realize is that Abby's newly bought house has duo ghosts fighting with each other. One is the grandfather and original owner of the house the other is Liza a Austrian wom
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Jun 29, 2010
Drebbles
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Psychic Abby Cooper invests in a fixer-upper with her sister, Cat, and handyman Dave. Abby takes a month off from doing psychic readings to fix up her own house and the fixer-upper. Those plans are changed when her boyfriend, FBI agent Dutch Rivers, is shot and she has to nurse him back to health. Abby does work on the fixer-upper whenever she can but work stops when she and Dutch spot the ghost of a beautiful blonde which disappears before their eyes. Abby has already had visions about the hous
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Feb 23, 2010
Sarai
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Abby Cooper and her crew are back, including FBI boyfriend Dutch, his former police partner Milo, sister Cat, and handyman Dave. When Dave and Cat decide that Abby should go into business with them in real estate, Abby is not so sure she wants to. When Dave manages to find her a cheap fixer-upper to buy, she signs on the dotted line. But when Dave makes a frantic call to Abby insisting the house is haunted, you can bet Abby knows there's gonna be trouble.
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Jun 16, 2011
Danni
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Ah, Victoria Laurie. Another Psychic Eye mystery, and another good read.
In this installment of the series, Abby Cooper finds herself (surprise, surprise) in the middle of another murder. This time, however, the murder occurred in the 1940's, and the only reason they know about it is because the house Abby, her sister Cat, and her handyman Dave bought together is haunted. The book centers around the investigation (where Abby lands herself in the hospital, as always) and her psychic More...
In this installment of the series, Abby Cooper finds herself (surprise, surprise) in the middle of another murder. This time, however, the murder occurred in the 1940's, and the only reason they know about it is because the house Abby, her sister Cat, and her handyman Dave bought together is haunted. The book centers around the investigation (where Abby lands herself in the hospital, as always) and her psychic More...
Jul 14, 2009
melissa
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Sometimes it’s fun to read an old comfort read, by an author you really like. This book fell into that category. I will say, this is not the one to start the series with, as I felt that a lot was left unexplained. As usual, I really liked Abby’s character in this one, although, she did have her flighty-dip moments. (Let’s go to the haunted house by ourselves, even though we know there is a murderer out there). Dutch’s character really bothered me this time. I felt he was overprotective to
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Aug 06, 2011
Jadaloves
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I’m all in when it comes to the Psychic Eye series of Abby Cooper. So far I have loved everyone of these books as they have all kept me on the edge of my seat. A Vision of Murder is a small break from Abby’s usual adventures in that is involves other supernatural elements besides Abby’s intuitiveness. This book takes us into the lives of long dead occupants of a run down house. When Abby’s handyman is run out of their investment property, claiming that something chucked his drill at him, Ab
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Nov 26, 2008
Elizabeth
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Psychic Abby Cooper invests in a fixer-upper with her sister, Cat, and handyman Dave. Abby takes a month off from doing psychic readings to fix up her own house and the fixer-upper.
Those plans are changed when her boyfriend, FBI agent Dutch Rivers, is shot and she has to nurse him back to health. Abby does work on the fixer-upper whenever she can but work stops when she and Dutch spot the ghost of a beautiful blonde which disappears before their eyes.
Abby has already ha More...
Those plans are changed when her boyfriend, FBI agent Dutch Rivers, is shot and she has to nurse him back to health. Abby does work on the fixer-upper whenever she can but work stops when she and Dutch spot the ghost of a beautiful blonde which disappears before their eyes.
Abby has already ha More...
Dec 21, 2009
Yolanda
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This was hard for me because I love the series but this one was just so annoying. She was like super sensitive and whiny throughout the book. And not to mention as a psychic obvious clues seemed to go unnoticed. She is supposed to be psychic and it appeared she barely used her abilities when the time and situation called for it. She was more concerned being a big baby in regards to her boyfriend. Who in previous books had no desire to use voice impressions but for some asinine reason he kept say
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Sep 01, 2010
Myhotstylist
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3rd in series, Abby has taken the month off for a little R&R. Unfortuneately Dutch gets shot in the butt, so she becomes his nurse-aide. Then all of a sudden Dave her handy man conns her into buying an old house to flip. Little did they know they would find a half-dead ghost, a treasure box, and a serious mad-man after the contents within. Abby, Dutch and Milo work to figure out the puzzle, and Abby finds herself constantly in a heap of trouble. tension mounds up and tempers fly high in this one
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Mar 15, 2011
Steph
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A Vision of Murder is the 3rd book in the Psychic Eye Mystery series. This edition centers around a haunted house that Abby, her sister Cat and Dave purchased. The story has some funny moments since Abby's scared of ghosts, Dave refuses to enter the house and Cat just wants to make money. There's some serious sexual tension happenin' between Abby and Dutch when he doesn't "listen to Abby's reading" <spoiler>and gets shot in the butt. LOL!</spoiler>
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Jun 20, 2009
Hannah
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Another great Abby Cooper book! Just as exciting as the first, with that element of danger and real mystery that sets it apart from some of the other amateur detective novels, where the heroine seems to waltz elegantly around all potentially dangerous situations. The only unfortunate part is Abby's tendency to preach when she's explaining her abilities. The scenes where she deals with clients, or calls on her "people", is also very formulaic. It all sounds very much the same.
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Aug 09, 2007
Julie
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A very annoying main character takes this not-bad mystery down a couple of notches. She's so childish I couldn't wish for good things to happen to her.
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Jan 01, 2011
Yolanda
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just finished another great book. The third Psychic Eye Mystery was an interesting one. It was also a little change of reading pace, though the story did involve some ghosts and a little mystery dating back to World War II.
It was a really cool tale and Abby's a nice and friendly narrator. I'm definitely going to check out the books that follow. I hope Victoria Laurie keeps writing these for a long time. I did read on her website that she's got another book coming out next year, about More...
It was a really cool tale and Abby's a nice and friendly narrator. I'm definitely going to check out the books that follow. I hope Victoria Laurie keeps writing these for a long time. I did read on her website that she's got another book coming out next year, about More...
Jan 01, 2012
Sharon (twilightcrazie)
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I liked this case, which involves a haunted house but found Abby to be a little irritating as she's constantly not playing it safe. She knows she's gonna find trouble, but when she finds it, not only does she stir it up, she tries to serve it to everyone for dinner! Esp to her FBI boyfriend Dutch, who is constantly trying to convince her to wait until she has proper back up or suggests to let the police check things out first. Other than that, this was very entertaining. I also don't see her
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Mar 16, 2011
Agnes
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The prospect of a ghost made this book more interesting to me than the previous 2 books. However, I just really didn't care much for all the historic references. Sorry, no offense to anyone. I'm just not much of a historical buff and so I ended up not liking it too much because the whole story circled around this.
Abby is also starting to get on my nerves. She's gone from whiny to just plain irritating. I usually don't mind whiny characters, but she's just overdoing it. Grow up, Abby.
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Abby is also starting to get on my nerves. She's gone from whiny to just plain irritating. I usually don't mind whiny characters, but she's just overdoing it. Grow up, Abby.
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Jun 21, 2011
Debbie
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Abby, her sister Cat and Dave buy a rundown house together in order to fix it up and sell for profit. But the downside is the house is haunted and Dave refuses to work on the house because he is attacked on his first day by a ghost who is irate that he is making changes to the home. This leads Abby to begin working on the case of the haunted house. She quickly learns that to solve her investigation she must first locate a buried cache of jewels lost during World War II. However, someone else wa
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Aug 09, 2009
Sandy
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This book isn't as good as Better Read than Dead. It didn't draw me in the entire time and I was bored at some parts that had little merit. It's not as exciting but I did find myself intrigued at the story that unravels from World War II, aided by Abby's intuition and T.J. (Dutch's friend from college). I am glad we get to revisit Theresa, her best friend - a psychic medium - move away to California in the first book. Overall, it's a solid read but I hope the fourth book is better. I don't reco
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Jul 02, 2008
Ana T.
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Professional psychic Abby Cooper has invested in a fixer-upper, hoping to make a killing in the real estate market. But a killing of another kind puts her plans awry, as the ghost of a murdered woman and some troublesome poltergeists lead her into a mystery that stretches all the way back to World War II.
Well and I just couldn't resist starting the next book in the series. This book however introduces some themes I'm not as interested in, namely ghosts and some other psychic incident More...
Well and I just couldn't resist starting the next book in the series. This book however introduces some themes I'm not as interested in, namely ghosts and some other psychic incident More...
Dec 29, 2010
Victoria
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Abby is a professional psychic taking a vacation as she starts a new business buying and renovating a run doerwn and haunted house. After her handyman working at the house is attacked by flying drills and refuses to work, Abby is forced to investigate the history of the previous owners and enlist ghost busters to help her as well as the police as she is attacked by a mysterious thief. The book is part of a series written by a real psychic. Its interesting how it works from someone who knows.
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Feb 09, 2012
Sally
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Book three in the Psychic Eye series staring Abby Cooper.
When Abby lets her handyman and sister talk her into buying a "fixer-upper" home to flip, she has misgivings about the whole idea. Then Abby learns the house hasn't been evacuated by the former owner and his one-time lover. The trouble is, their ghosts!
Abby needs to find out how to get these ghosts to cross over but in order to do so, she needs to find out why they are still hanging around and that is pro More...
When Abby lets her handyman and sister talk her into buying a "fixer-upper" home to flip, she has misgivings about the whole idea. Then Abby learns the house hasn't been evacuated by the former owner and his one-time lover. The trouble is, their ghosts!
Abby needs to find out how to get these ghosts to cross over but in order to do so, she needs to find out why they are still hanging around and that is pro More...
Jun 15, 2011
Jenn
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Not a bad mystery, however, I am getting annoyed with Abby. In this book she regressed into a whiny teenager, not taking any advice from anyone. She was mean to others a lot in this one, instead of the put-upon sister/girlfriend/friend, she came off as a mean girl who does things just to spite others. I will give the next book a shot as I already have it, but unless this character begins to grow and blossom, that could be it.
Oct 18, 2009
Erin
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I hated this book! Thank God I didn't pay for it. I couldn't even finish it. I got so tired of negative, unintelligent, whiny Abby. Personally, I think the author shows a lot of her own personality in her writing and she is an incredibly small minded, negative, angry person. She is one of those typical self-hating whites who is so filled with hatred for people, especially those with money. She could use some serious therapy!
Jun 02, 2011
Sho
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This book really showed what Abby could do as a psychic I think. Haunted house and the subsequent mystery solving were very interesting and fun. It was also the first time that Dutch and Abby finally started to work together as a romantic couple as well as a mystery solving couple.
I would be reading more from this series in the future.
Oh and the reader is very good too!
I would be reading more from this series in the future.
Oh and the reader is very good too!
Feb 04, 2011
Paradoxical
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Didn't like this one all that much, sigh. Abby acted like an idiot, and I kind of wanted to chuck Dutch out a window. Corny lines left and right and I was growing bored with the entire haunted fiasco. The sheer idiocy of a woman who really ought to know better is very irritating, and she's like a catnip for trouble, which, all right, is a good thing in books, but it's a little much.
