Deadly Forecast: A Psychic Eye Mystery
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Authors: Victoria Laurie
Deadly Forecast
THE PSYCHIC EYE MYSTERY SERIES
Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye
Better Read Than Dead
A Vision of Murder
Killer Insight
Crime Seen
Death Perception
Doom with a View
A Glimpse of Evil
Vision Impossible
Lethal Outlook
THE GHOST HUNTER MYSTERY SERIES
What’s a Ghoul to Do?
Demons Are a Ghoul’s Best Friend
Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun
Ghouls Gone Wild
Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls
Ghoul Interrupted
What a Ghoul Wants
Deadly F
recast
A Psychic Eye Mystery
Victoria Laurie
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Laurie, Victoria.
Deadly forecast: a psychic eye mystery/Victoria Laurie.
p. cm
ISBN 978-1-101-61419-8
1. Women detectives—Fiction. 2. Paranormal fiction. 3. Psychics—Fiction.
4. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3612.A94423D43 2013
813.6—dc23 2013005754
Designed by Alissa Amell
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For my sister Sandy,
who is the Cat to my Abby,
minus the bullhorn and bulldozer, of course…
Acknowledgments
I’ve wanted to get Abby and M.J. together for years. One of the great joys about having
multiple series is playing around with the idea of having them team up to solve a
mystery together someday. This particular challenge, however, came with its own set
of obstacles. Which series to set the story in was the first decision to make, and
since M.J. had her roots in
A Vision of Murder
, I thought it only natural to bring her back for another Psychic Eye mystery.
Then I had to decide how to give clear voice to both Abby and M.J., who are each always
written in the first person. Sort of by accident I decided to give M.J. a third-person
perspective. Timing was also a tough decision—should I bring M.J. in at the beginning?
Or allow her to ease into the story a bit later? I chose the former because I’ve always
wanted to try a double-time-line scenario, and this seemed like the perfect vehicle.
Mostly, I wanted to share a little space with my two favorite girls, who’ve served
me so well over the past nine years. And this task truly could not have been accomplished
without the support of some very special people. How wonderful that we authors are
given the space to acknowledge all the special people who make each book possible.
First, I’d like to give my heartfelt thanks to my fabulous editor,
Mrs. Sandra Harding-Hull, who has in her fan club many a devoted coworker, author,
and friend. In a word, Sandy is amazeballs. She makes a wonderful collaborative partner
and I’m deeply, deeply grateful to have her as an editor and friend. Sandy, thank
you for all your hard work and insight. I’m deeply, deeply grateful.
Next, my schmabulous agent, Jim McCarthy, who has opened this book, skimmed past the
first part of these acknowledgments, discovered his name, and is right now reading
at breakneck speed to find out what lovely new things I will say about him this time.
(Waves) Hi, Jim! Gotcha!Heh, heh. Truthfully, though, the very best compliment I could possibly pay him is
that I know in my bones that there is no other person on EARTH who could be a better
agent and advocate for me. Thank God Jim is one of a kind. Thank God he’s my agent.
Thank God he’s delightful, and charming, and witty, and funny, and oh so wise. Thank
God I lurves him enough to tell him the truth. Thank God he lurves me enough to listen,
and tell me the truth too. Most of all, thank God he and I are still together and
strong as ever nine years into the mix.