Discount Price: $6.99
Price fluctuation possible.
How soon does it ship: Normal ship time within one day
Shipping? Absolutely FREE if you qualify for Super Saver Shipping.
Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780451217158
ISBN number: 0451217152
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: December 06, 2005
Publishing house: Signet
Sale Popularity Level: 36798
Studio: Signet
Other books you might be interested in perusing:
Editor's Notes and Comments:
Product Description:
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.
User popularity level:
Rated by buyers 
-
"A Vision of Murder" is the very first book of a series of books about Psychic Eye Abby Cooper that I have read. "A Vision of Murder" is assuredly the very last book about Psychic Eye Abby Cooper that I shall ever read.
Abby Cooper is a perky young woman. Within certain not wholly-specified limits, she has psychic powers. She is clearly well-off financially. There is a bit of verbal sliding of the hands through the air and a mention of an insurance settlement, but it all comes down to the simple fact that she has neither significant financial incentives nor barriers, as far as the action of this book is concerned.
She has a sister, Cat, who is described as the high-powered, self-made creator-owner of a business in which she "bosses thousands around." Cat has involved Abby in what amounts to a chump-change, one-house, fix-up-and-flip, real estate deal--because she, the high-powered sister who bosses around all those thousands, that is--hasn't got the money to do it herself. The only possible reaction of a rational reader on encountering that particular revelation is to take a stiff drink of whatever is readily at hand and potent, and then mutter, "Uh-huh."
Abby and Cat have a third partner in their chump-change flip. He is Dave, the handyman who is expected to do all the real work. Dave, it turns out, is goshalmighty afeared of ghosts. And-wouldn't you just believe it?--the house acquired in the aforesaid chump-change real estate flip scheme is ... haunted! (Don't you just hate it when that happens?) If this story had been filmed by Hollywood at any time up to the mid-1950s, I haven't the slightest doubt that the part of Dave would have been assigned to Willie Best or, worse, to the great and cruelly misused Mantan Moreland of "Feets, don't ya fail me, now"-infamy.
Abby's main squeeze is an FBI Special Agent who is recuperating from a wound. The agent's best friend is a local homicide cop. The agent and the cop, to all appearances, have absolutely nothing better to do than escort Abby all over town to talk to a motley crowd of individuals. They invariably introduce perky Abby the psychic as their "associate." Uh-huh.
Abby, it appears, has had her psychic gift all her life, although she clearly doesn't know much about it and seems hardly inclined to find out without outside incentive. She earns her living at being a psychic, or so we are told but never shown. Her gift is sufficiently sharp that she can make instant and totally accurate cold readings on salesgirls and waitresses. Her gift is so reliable that it has allowed one of her friends to make a major win in a lottery ... and immediately waste it on a flashy, high five-figure sports car. Her gift, however, has clearly come at a high cost, for perky Abby is entirely without commonsense. No, she hasn't even a speck of it. In fact, if there is a foolish, dangerous or outright self-destructive decision to be made, you can bet that Abby is just the perky girl to make it--and sooner rather than later!
The plot of this book, such as it is, concerns itself with unraveling the origin of the haunting(s) of the house (the one acquired in the chump-change real estate flip.) On the way to its conclusion, the plot touches on certain not altogether unfamiliar doings in France during the war, a McGuffin in a Japanese (!?) puzzle box, a series-long (I presume) running gag about Abby and Cat's impossible parents ... and a bulldozer operated by unlikely hands during a construction site lunchbreak.
On top of all this, there is that dratted, increasingly annoying "liar, liar, pants on fire" comment EVERY d----d time Abby's psychic sense warns her that someone is being less than truthful with her. Arghh!
I'm assigning this soggy mess two stars--but only because it undeniably possesses the virtue of not having been written by Dan Brown.
LEC/AM/12-08
Rated by buyers 
-
Reading a Victoria Laurie book is like taking a mental vacation from the usual stress that we all deal with on a day to day basis. The characters make me laugh sometimes and that alone is worth the read. I didn't think I was a fan of "chick" books, but VL books, the Abby Cooper series in particular, are just plain fun to follow. I just bought the "Ghouls" book and hope to enjoy that series as much as the Psychic Eye plots.
Rated by buyers -
The more I read this series, the more I like it and want more! If you're just finding this author, start from the beginning and buy them all. I guarantee you won't be disappointed. I loved this book so much-I am usually so good at guessing the endings to books but this one has me so entertained I don't even try to guess the ending. I just relax and enjoy the read.
Rated by buyers 
-
A Vision of Murder is book 3 in the Psychic Eye series by Victoria Laurie. In this one, Abby, Cat, and Dave end up investing in a haunted house. Of course they didn't know it was haunted at the time, or two of them would have hightailed it immediately.
I picked up on the overall gist of where the story would go right away in this one. I find that most stories that involve WWII and hidden treasures tend to deal with items being stolen from Holocaust victims. However, Laurie does put her own Abby style spin on things that makes for an interesting mystery nonetheless. I found that enjoyable...watching her piece together things. I was more frustrated watching her this time though since if there is a trap for her to walk into, she most assuredly will.
Dolt, *cough* I mean Dutch continued to grate on my nerves in this book. Abby really has odd taste in men. He's a bit too controlling. Sure, she's a spaz and waltzes into trouble, but he often acted like she was an object he owned...one who should drop everything to baby him, and remain locked up in whatever cage he deems fitting. Bleh.
Overall I am still enjoying the pace and the writing style of these stories and most of the characters. Dave and his reaction to the haunted house just tickled me. I would have liked to see some resolution to Cat's issues at the end. The author left us hanging there. Maybe the subsequent book will cover that. Or perhaps we were meant to assume it would all work itself out. I really don't know.
On the new age side of things, I was fascinated with seeing her relate to a ghostly experience. I liked thinking about the idea that some people have different energies that in fact attract ghosts. Dealing with that aspect of things seems pretty intense. I think I'll stick with working with my rocks thank you very much. :P
On to the subsequent book. :)
Rated by buyers -
The third installment of the Abby Cooper series is another hit! The Abby Cooper series is the perfect mystery series with an added mix of supernatural!! This novel even intorduces M.J. Holliday, Laurie's lead character in her new Ghost Hunter Series!
In A Vision of Murder, Abby, her sister Cat and Dave buy a rundown house together in order to fix it up and sell it to make a profit. But the downside is that the house is haunted and Dave refuses to work on the house as that the ghost attacked him on his very first day. Thus leading Abby to contact M.J. Abby begins to work on the case of the haunted house along with Dutch and Milo, that leads to a cover up murder and many family secrets of that of a jeweler.
Abby is determined to solve the case no matter what, but there is someone trying to stop her and he will go to any means to stop her, by ranscaking her house, office, and attacking her. Which ultimately leads to problems with Abby and Dutch and trust issues. But Abby will be able to save the day and still make everyone happy!
Overall it is a great read just as all of the Psychic Eye mysteries are! They read so fast and grip you in that it seems that reality doesn't exist!
Find other books like this one:
