Sammy’s review of Cold Sight (Extrasensory Agents, Book 1) by Leslie A. Kelly
Paranormal Romantic Suspense published by LK Books 28 Sep 16
I came across a tweet that Leslie Kelly was re-issuing her Extrasensory Agents books. Once upon a time, I had read the first and second book, then I found out she was writing and publishing the third book about Mick! I couldn’t have been more excited. I wanted to refresh my memory, because it’s been a hot minute since I read these books. And I fell in love all over again! When authors write really great suspense and throw in a little paranormal, that’s like catnip for me. So, dear readers, I am going on a journey, I am reading all three books in the series to date. I just hope there will be many more. Leslie Kelly writes some creepy, smart, well-fleshed-out cast of characters. Lock your doors, double check your windows, and be prepared to be thoroughly entertained by one very talented author.
“No, darling, you are not in any way, shape or form bad.” She made a mental note to give his father a piece of her mind, having absolutely no doubt he’d been the one who’d said something like that to his son. Men like him … what they couldn’t understand, they tried to destroy.”
Aidan McConnell came into his Psychic at a very young age. While his parents were beside themselves that there was something wrong with him, his great grandmother had the same gift and willed herself to live long enough to help him understand the weight he would carry for the rest of his life.
Young girls have been systematically disappearing from the bad part of town. The newest girl gone missing, Vonnie Jackson, may have lived on the wrong side of the tracks, but she was smart enough to get into a better high school due to her intelligence. Aidan McConnell is hiding out in Granville, Georgia after a case went seriously wrong. He wakes up from a deep sleep, smelling gingerbread, and hearing a woman’s loud scream. He knew a victim was coming through to him, he just didn’t know the who or the where.
Lexie Nolan works as a reporter for the town’s newspaper. She’s been beat up as well by the town officials and chief of police for writing up a story about Vonnie Jackson and all the other missing girls she has put together. The silent partner at the newspaper wants her fired, but her acting boss will have none of it. She knows there is a serial killer living amongst them. The people living in the nice part of town don’t seem to care; the chief of police doesn’t seem to want to do his job, especially when he’s receiving payoff money to look the other way; the mayor is furious; and the high school where Vonnie attended, well, they don’t seem too worried either. After all, Vonnie is not one of them.
Walter, Lexi’s boss and friend, doesn’t want her to let this article go. He gives her Aidan’s information and where she can find him. He figures since the powers to be won’t look into things, then he’ll use any and all of his contacts to get to the bottom of what’s going on. After all, he has twins Vonnie’s age that go to school with her. Lexi finds Aidan and tries to get him on board, but this is no easy task, considering how the media dragged him through the mud thanks to the Remington case. Our heroine is very persistent, maybe the only “P” word she likes aside from play. She really gets in his face and Aidan finally gets she’s the real deal, and he knows that he heard that girls’ screams. He has to help and he calls in some favors from his old team. Each team member has their own special abilities. Aidan can touch someone and hear them from across the room or many, many miles away. Now that he’s older, he’s built up walls so that he can live a semi-normal life without getting bombarded with all the voices that pop into his head.
This book will have your pulse pounding. I don’t think I could turn the pages fast enough. The race to save Vonnie is edge-of-your-seat. There are evil people living in Granville and the suspects are numerous. I read this book awhile ago and I didn’t remember who was behind this. I didn’t know until the very end when Lexie and Aidan figured things out. Books like this make it such a pleasure to read. The stakes are high, the two main characters have serious chemistry, there is no sex on the run. The sex in the book is in the right places, but what keeps you hooked is the relationships between Lexi and Aidan and Aidan and his team. I don’t want to give anything away. That’s the fun part, peeling away the layers and following the clues, The bad guy is creepy and well written. If you pick this book up, you won’t be disappointed. Fantastic writing, secret clubs, missing girls, death, evil so depraved it will send chills down your spine, a love story so intricate and beautiful you’ll be sighing while simultaneously biting your nails. Leslie Kelly, you have outdone yourself with this series. I am moving on to Cold Touch and I can’t wait to see what spine-tingling storyline is up next.
Grade:A
Summary:
Aidan McConnell once used his special psychic abilities to help find the missing. But after the media made him the scapegoat for a child’s death, he retreated from the world and became a recluse.
Lexie Nolan is a small-town reporter with big vision. She was the first to connect a series of disappearances among teenage girls to a serial killer…but nobody will listen to her.
Lexie is in desperate need of help from the sexy psychic who’s an expert in finding people. And even though Aidan loathes the media, he can’t help being drawn in to the passionate, beautiful reporter.
Nor can he resist helping her on this particular case. Because he knows the latest missing girl.
And he knows time to save her is running out.
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