Title: Shadow’s Return
Series: Psychic Detective Mysteries: Book Two
Author: S.C. Wynne
Publisher: Self-Published
Length: 196 Pages
Category: Paranormal, Mystery/Suspense
At a Glance: There are some real ‘gasp, no way!’ moments that I loved as the killer threatens again in a way I didn’t anticipate. It all came together in such an enticing way as to hook me for the next book in the series before I’d finished this one.
Reviewed By: Lisa
Blurb: In Book Two, Psychic Liam Baker and Detective Kimball Thompson have embarked on a romantic relationship after battling the deadly and powerful psychic, Steven Pine months ago. They ended his brutal killing spree of young male prostitutes, and he’s safely in jail.
But when someone starts murdering young college girls, some disturbing clues seem to lead back to Steven Pine. But he’s locked up and awaiting trial. There’s no possible way he could be involved in the new murders.
Yet Liam can’t shake the chilling feeling that Pine has somehow figured out a way to reach out from his jail cell to continue murdering innocent victims.
Review: “Two girls dead in two days was bad … Things weren’t going to get easier from here.”
At the end of Shadow’s Edge, book one in the Psychic Detective Mysteries series, psychic Liam Baker and LAPD homicide detective Kimball Thompson busted a psychopath and took a big step in their relationship. Shadow’s Return picks up the thread of their story two months later, still feeling each other out, still weathering a few bumps, and on top of that, now tackling a duo of fresh murders on a college campus. And, as seems par for the storytelling course, author S.C. Wynne pulls out all the thrilling stops to build a suspenseful mystery alongside the romantic evolution of Liam and Thompson’s relationship.
The goal of these short novels is clear-cut: to offer readers maximum enjoyment in an economy of words, and they succeed most impressively on that front. Both installments in the series (neither a standalone) can be devoured in just a few hours, and in that time, readers get to play amateur sleuth, puzzling through the crimes as well as the question of how Liam and Thompson are going to move on from the single most devastating loss that brought them together and yet remains the one thing that stands as an obstacle between them.
The extrasensory angle in the story looms large for both Liam and the killer, and with few cogent clues, in the way their psychic connection ups the ante in a high stakes game of cat and mouse to discover the killer’s identity. There are some real ‘gasp, no way!’ moments that I loved as the killer threatens again in a way I didn’t anticipate. It all came together in such an enticing way as to hook me for the next book in the series before I’d finished this one.
I love chewing on some excellent discourse, so sharp dialogue is yet another bonus I can add to this series’ list of accomplishments. There isn’t a single insignificant conversation, which serves to advances the narrative at a robust and exciting pace. Seeing where Liam and Thompson go from here, both at home and in the crime solving biz, is something I’m anticipating in a big way.
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