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Better Read Than Dead (Psychic Eye Mystery #2)
by
Victoria Laurie (Goodreads Author)
Word of Abby's talents reading tarot cards has reached a mob boss who wants her help in some business matters and he doesn't take no for an answer. When the police seek out her psychic intuition to shed light on a masked man who's been attacking women, Abby finds herself working both sides of the law on her own, leading her to wonder, why didn't I see this coming?
Paperback, 296 pages
Published
June 7th 2005
by Signet
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Book two in the Psychic Eye Mystery Series. This one starts off where book one ends. I don't want to give anything too juicy away so I will try my best to review with as little spoiler as I can.
So much happens in this book. It was hard to believe it was only 296 pages. I flew this book again like I was hooked on book crack. I loved it. I love Abby Cooper and Love Dutch. I really think Victoria Laurie is one of my new favorite authors. I can't get enough of them right now. In this book you deal...more
So much happens in this book. It was hard to believe it was only 296 pages. I flew this book again like I was hooked on book crack. I loved it. I love Abby Cooper and Love Dutch. I really think Victoria Laurie is one of my new favorite authors. I can't get enough of them right now. In this book you deal...more
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Noted in first chapter among the witty thoughts...a pop culture reference. Again. The last book had one that could span generations but this one is pretty firmly Gen Y. Bummer. Oh well. Keep reading.
Next chapter: continuity. The reading room seems to have grown by a foot. Added another window as well.
Another nit-pick that I caught in the last book as well: using "phase" instead of "faze." Thankfully, this was corrected later in the story. Also, I thought Kendall was her sister's friend but I cou...more
Next chapter: continuity. The reading room seems to have grown by a foot. Added another window as well.
Another nit-pick that I caught in the last book as well: using "phase" instead of "faze." Thankfully, this was corrected later in the story. Also, I thought Kendall was her sister's friend but I cou...more
Better Read than Dead is the second book in Victoria Laurie’s popular Psychic Eye series.
Abby Cooper, Psychic Intuitive, is having an off day. She doesn’t seem to be making the right connections for her client, Cathy. She apologizes and offers to do another reading, all the while knowing Cathy won’t be back.
Abby Cooper, Psychic Intuitive, is having an off day. She doesn’t seem to be making the right connections for her client, Cathy. She apologizes and offers to do another reading, all the while knowing Cathy won’t be back.
When Cathy is brutally attacked and the pieces of her reading make sense. Abby is asked by a friend in the police department to help with the serial rapist that made Cathy, victim number thr
...more
I really enjoy this author. I started out with the Ghost Hunter series and did enjoy those books very much. I was disappointed to find I had read all the books currently out. So, I decided to start this series, even though it was not quite in the same vein. It did not disappoint.
I am really enjoying the life of Abby Cooper, the clairvoyant, intuitive psychic. While she has special talents, I find her very human. Of course, she is human – she is not magical, just psychic. However, I find her very...more
I am really enjoying the life of Abby Cooper, the clairvoyant, intuitive psychic. While she has special talents, I find her very human. Of course, she is human – she is not magical, just psychic. However, I find her very...more
In this second book of Victoria Laurie's Psychic Eye Mystery series, we see profession psychic Abby Cooper doing what she does best: sticking her nose directly where it doesn't belong. Not that she does it willingly, of course. After being forced into performing at a high end wedding by a friend that she owed a favour to, Abby reads for a person whose killed a person. Or maybe more than one. She quickly comes to the realization that the wedding she was attending was for the daughter of the Greek...more
This was a fantastic book. I enjoyed it from start to finish. First and foremost I love Abby Cooper. She is such a strong character, beautifully written by Laurie. She has a distinct personality and a very interesting psychic gift. She is a strong, no-nonsense type of gal, and dare I say Abby don’t take no shit. She’s a fighter with an inherent will to survive and compassion and steel to see justice dispensed.She’s a very unique character with enough quirks and flaws to make her interesting.
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Poor Abby! Everything goes wrong. Her hunky FBI agent boyfriend is going to be home on Saturday but now her psychic friend Kendal is calling in a favor and instead of spending the evening with Dutch she is doing readings. At the Wedding, Kendal and Abby discover that the client is the greek mob. They skip out on the rest of the event. Kendal, returning home early discovers his lover with someone else and runs off to florida with the mob bosses money. Abby is left holding the bag and now the mob...more
Light read, debating about 2 or 3 rating. Won't read anything else by this author. Could feel that the author's writing is more relaxed in this installment - containing more humor and wit than her debut book. Male interest still a dead ringer for Evanovich's Morelli (not that that's a bad thing, just is). But,how could any of us like a heroine who truly fears for her boyfriend's life by the mob, tries to call to warn him & misses, owns a cell phone, goes off for the weekend & relaxes poo...more
Abby Cooper is having a bad week. Her boyfriend Dutch, in training with the FBI, has a gorgeous female partner who is definitely interested in him. Then when he protests her revealing her psychic abilities to Joe, aka Josephine LaBond, Abby breaks up with him. Things go from bad to worse after helping a fellow psychic read tarot cards at a fancy wedding, only to discover the bride's father is the mob. Now he wants her to help him with "family" business. In addition, Dutch's former partner agrees...more
3.5 Stars
When we meet up again with Abby Cooper, it's months later after her attack. She's fully recovered and back to work. She's in a relationship with Dutch, who is now in training with the FBI. The night he's back in town, Abby's friend asked her for a favor. And how can she refuse? Kendal assisted her when she was out on leave from work and now he needs her help.
Kendal has been hired to read Tarot cards at a Greek wedding reception. Abby has never done this before, but Kendal assures her it...more
When we meet up again with Abby Cooper, it's months later after her attack. She's fully recovered and back to work. She's in a relationship with Dutch, who is now in training with the FBI. The night he's back in town, Abby's friend asked her for a favor. And how can she refuse? Kendal assisted her when she was out on leave from work and now he needs her help.
Kendal has been hired to read Tarot cards at a Greek wedding reception. Abby has never done this before, but Kendal assures her it...more
Abby Cooper is a professional psychic. She's looking forward to reuniting with her FBI boyfriend Dutch on Halloween after a two-month absence, but her friend and colleague Kendal asks her for a favor: he's contracted to read tarot cards for a wedding party and he needs another psychic to help out. She'd like to refuse, but she owes him big.
After a quick tutorial in tarot-card-reading (not Abby's specialty), she's doing fine, until she realizes that a) the man whose fortune she's reading is a hi...more
After a quick tutorial in tarot-card-reading (not Abby's specialty), she's doing fine, until she realizes that a) the man whose fortune she's reading is a hi...more
For covering for her while she was recovering from injuries, Abby Cooper owes fellow psychic Kendall a big favor, so when he asks her to assist him at tarot reading for a wedding, Abby can't say no - even though it's the first night she'll see her boyfriend in 2 months. The gig goes well until our heroine realizes that she is not just at a regular wedding - the bride is the daughter of a major crime boss, who happens to be very interested in psychics.
Now that Abby has his attention, he'll make h...more
Now that Abby has his attention, he'll make h...more
Second in the Psychic Eye Series, Better Read Than Dead by Victoria Laurie is just as engaging as the first book. We learned a little more about the main characters and got to follow along on a new adventure with Abby.
Summary:
Abby is frustrated and depressed because she has agreed to work a wedding the very night her sexy FBI boyfriend Dutch Rivers is coming home from training. She feels terrible but has no choice as a fellow psychic, Kendal, is calling in his marker from helping her after her...more
Summary:
Abby is frustrated and depressed because she has agreed to work a wedding the very night her sexy FBI boyfriend Dutch Rivers is coming home from training. She feels terrible but has no choice as a fellow psychic, Kendal, is calling in his marker from helping her after her...more
Darker than the last book, but not in a bad way. Things are a bit more dangerous for Abby this time around, what with the mob after her to help them (and then her trying to refuse, they don't really take 'no' for an answer, heh) and a serial rapist on the loose. Events in this book were more exciting, and harrowing, than the last, which made me like it more. Still pretty light fair all around. Light as in... hm. It's very much a quick read and it's not deep--just something fun. Several things in...more
Dass es im Abbys Leben nur wenig normales gibt ist spätestens nach dem ersten Kapitel des ersten Bandes Glasklar. Und genau so geht es auch jetzt weiter und neben Beziehungsproblemen, einen neuen Fall der Polizeig und einem brennenden Haus, gerät Abby auch noch mit der hiesigen Mafia in Kontakt. Wirklich albtraumhaft!
Etwa zwei Monate sind vergangen und Dutch, Abbys neuer sexy Freund, hat mitlerweile seine Ausbildung zum FBI Agenten abgeschlossen und kehrt nach hause zurück. Doch statt des romant...more
Etwa zwei Monate sind vergangen und Dutch, Abbys neuer sexy Freund, hat mitlerweile seine Ausbildung zum FBI Agenten abgeschlossen und kehrt nach hause zurück. Doch statt des romant...more
Better Read Than Dead
is the 2nd book in the Psychic Eye Mystery series, so some series spoilers may exist.
Reading Order:
In Better Read Than Dead Dutch is returning from FBI training at Quantico and wants to have a date with Abby while he's home. She agrees, happy to have him back for a bit, but ends up having to cancel. A friend of hers and fellow psychic calls in his favor and asks for her help doing tarot card readings at a wedding reception. She can't get out of it, so she goes with him...more
Reading Order:
In Better Read Than Dead Dutch is returning from FBI training at Quantico and wants to have a date with Abby while he's home. She agrees, happy to have him back for a bit, but ends up having to cancel. A friend of hers and fellow psychic calls in his favor and asks for her help doing tarot card readings at a wedding reception. She can't get out of it, so she goes with him...more
Abby Cooper returns in the second of the series, returning a favor for a friend that lands her in the lap of the mob. Boyfriend Dutch returns too, taking on a new job with the FBI that requires him to go undercover - with his new, hot female boss. Then Abby's sister is attacked and Abby just doesn't know what to do.
I actually have one more chapter to read of this book tonight, but it has been so much fun, as was the first in the series, that I had to take a moment and add it to my blog right now...more
I actually have one more chapter to read of this book tonight, but it has been so much fun, as was the first in the series, that I had to take a moment and add it to my blog right now...more
A mystery with the Mob involved. I thought that overall it was good but the end was somewhat odd with how all the pieces fell into place as the readers were not prepared with much info on what Abby's intuition had worked out. At least a few hints would have been good. This book just felt like it switched scenes suddenly. Perhaps there was just too much going on as Abby was also asked to assist with finding the man attacking who was women.
I like the growing romance between Abby and Dutch as it is...more
I like the growing romance between Abby and Dutch as it is...more
It was alright. Abby is generally a really smart, witty, and realistic character which is why I started the series to begin with. I loved the direction the book was going but this was one of those books in the series where you're screaming at the main character to stop being so careless and stupid about their decisions. Sometimes you just sit there and think "how could you possibly think this was a good idea."
I'm all for Abby being independent and being able to take care of herself but sometime...more
I'm all for Abby being independent and being able to take care of herself but sometime...more
I finished this book in about 6 hours from start to finish. That's how intriguing this book is! I become a bigger & bigger Victoria Laurie fan with each of her books that I read. This one reads differently than the first book in her Psychic Eye series, so if you're a fan of her first book, it may take you a little while to get into this one. But, once you get into it, it's absolutely impossible to put it down. Some of the outcomes are predictable, but mostly the book keeps you guessing until...more
This is the second book in the Psychic Eye mystery series and it was just as good as the first was. In this book, Abby is doing a favor for a friend and working as a tarot card reader at a wedding reception. When a client comes in and her psychic guides are telling her that he's a killer she realizes she's attending a mob wedding. As Abby tries to deal with her professional problems she is also trying to deal with her new relationship with Dutch. He's back from Quantico and working for the FBI,...more
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I am not sure why I like this series so much. The heroine is likable, the boyfriend hero-ish, and the setting is near my own hometown, but these are light mysteries (honestly can figure them out early enough so there is no mystery at all, really), written well enough and just a total brain candy type of book. Abby is in trouble again, this time with the mob. I found a glaring error in this book, however, set in southeastern lower Michigan, the author describes a drive along Lakeshore Drive near...more
I probably like this better than the first book. It has a lot more action into it.
So i have the same complaint i have with book 1.
The relentless, really moody and easily angered heroine. She can be a bitch and most of the time she can be irrational i want to slap some sense into her and tell her to freaking grow up! *BREATH IN, BREATH OUT*I keep wondering why author thinks its appealing to have a really stubborn heroine. Some author should know the difference between 'stubborn' and 'bitchy'.
And...more
So i have the same complaint i have with book 1.
The relentless, really moody and easily angered heroine. She can be a bitch and most of the time she can be irrational i want to slap some sense into her and tell her to freaking grow up! *BREATH IN, BREATH OUT*I keep wondering why author thinks its appealing to have a really stubborn heroine. Some author should know the difference between 'stubborn' and 'bitchy'.
And...more
"Better Read Than Dead" is the second in Victoria Laurie's Psychic Eye Mystery series. I enjoyed the first and this one as well. The main character is Abby Cooper who happens to be clairvoyant and has her own business reading client's futures. Her boyfriend, Dutch, is a newly minted FBI agent, who has a hard time accepting what she does for a living. She has a small dog, Eggy, who happens to love eggs. In this story she gets involved with the mob, as well as helping Dutch's ex partner, Milo, fin...more
2nd Installment which was just as good if not better than the 1st.
Abby agrees to help her friend Kendall entertain at a wedding reception. When they realize its a Mob wedding, they hi-tail it out of there only to be confronted with even more problems. Theres a serial rapist on the prowl, and Abby gets "persuaded" by the Mob Don to help him find his missing wife.
Abby finds herself in the middle of non-stop action but she uses her witty psychic skills to solve the crime and get out of the mess....more
Abby agrees to help her friend Kendall entertain at a wedding reception. When they realize its a Mob wedding, they hi-tail it out of there only to be confronted with even more problems. Theres a serial rapist on the prowl, and Abby gets "persuaded" by the Mob Don to help him find his missing wife.
Abby finds herself in the middle of non-stop action but she uses her witty psychic skills to solve the crime and get out of the mess....more
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Abby Cooper finds herself tangled up with the mob. While repaying a favor owed from her time off at the end of Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye. She is called to a wedding not realizing the connection to this wedding are mobsters. Things also aren’t panning out well for her and Dutch as neither are the best at knowing what to say to one another. Abby’s sister Cat tries her hand at Tarot to find she is less than productive at it. Abby is also on the hunt for a ski mask rapist tormenting the women of Mich...more
Okay, I must confess I really love Abby Cooper. She’s captured my heart and imagination.
Better Read than Dead was a suspenseful, riveting, at time heartbreaking adventure. For most of the book I was on the edge of my seat and more than several times my heart went out to Abby.
The intuitive/psychic angle gives a very original twist to the stories.
I thought that the character of Abby was even stronger, more well defined in this book.
Now, as I’m about to read the third book of the series, I’m curiou...more
Better Read than Dead was a suspenseful, riveting, at time heartbreaking adventure. For most of the book I was on the edge of my seat and more than several times my heart went out to Abby.
The intuitive/psychic angle gives a very original twist to the stories.
I thought that the character of Abby was even stronger, more well defined in this book.
Now, as I’m about to read the third book of the series, I’m curiou...more
EEK! This book is quite depressing... Abby's life here starts out really bad and sad then it get worse. UGH! I almost wanted to stop reading since I figured if I wanted depressing and somewhat intense plot, I should just read my UFs (Urban Fantasy)... After taking mandatory breaks from reading and getting to the part that she had nothing else to lose, the book really got interesting for me.
Then I realized I should go back to my UFs now and use this series as my in-between... Obviously I jumped t...more
Then I realized I should go back to my UFs now and use this series as my in-between... Obviously I jumped t...more
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Victoria Laurie is the New York Times bestselling author of 21 books and counting. With three separate series in full swing, Victoria divides her time between her two adult mystery series, (The Psychic Eye Mysteries, and The Ghost Hunter Mysteries), and her children's middle-grade adventure series, Oracles of Delphi Keep.
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