Title: Witchful Thinking
Author: Amelia Ross
Date: 2024
Quote: "I had no idea who the dead person was or how I wound up here in the first place."
Audrey Rose is destined to inherit special psychic talents, but it takes her a while to identify them because they look like incredibly bad luck. She has Banshee magic. She's drawn to the scenes of murders and, if not locked up as a suspect, has the ability to enchant a crystal to identify the murderer. Unhappy about living in a city where she's solved a few murders, she moves to a small town with a low murder rate, but right away she finds herself compulsively going out alone to the bar outside which she'll soon compulsively go out to see the body still bleeding on the ground.
Audrey doesn't know how to solve mysteries in a way that makes them interesting brain teasers. This is strictly a story about a TV-sitcom-type witch, or psychic, not at all a good detective story. Audrey does, however, persuade a real detective to share her cottage for security. Some readers might want the series of longer stories about them for which they'll have to pay, just to see whether Audrey and Detective Clayton ever stop snapping at each other and acknowledge a mutual attraction.
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