Magical Midlife & Murder Mysteries

She touches an object and sees the worst thing that ever happened to it.

When a vision hits Mel Bracewell at an estate sale, she thinks she is having a stroke. She is not. At fifty-three she has developed psychometry — she can touch an object and read its history, feel the emotion still soaked into it.

Chicago’s Office of Paranormal Affairs recruits her the same week. Mel trades a corporate cubicle for a converted firehouse staffed by a telekinetic detective, a far too enthusiastic medical examiner, and a front-desk witch who is quietly terrifying. Her gift makes her extraordinary at cold cases. It also means living through every death she investigates.

Cozy paranormal mystery with a competent, funny, middle-aged heroine, a ghost who used to be a detective, and a psychic ginger cat named Biscuit who has opinions about evidence handling.

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What you're in for

Psychometry — reading an object’s past by touch
Decades-old cold cases
A ghost partner who is still on the job
Biscuit, a psychic cat with strong opinions
Chicago’s Office of Paranormal Affairs
A PI boyfriend and a found-family squad

Read in order

A Psychic Midlife

New job. New powers. Old murder.

When a vision hits Mel Bracewell at an estate sale, she thinks she's having a stroke. Nope. She's just developed psychometry at fifty-three. She can touch objects and see their histories, feel the emotions embedded in them.

A Dangerous Midlife

Some monsters stop. Others just wait.

Three months at Chicago's Office of Paranormal Affairs, and Mel Bracewell has finally figured out her life. She's got a job she's good at, a boyfriend who makes her laugh, and psychic abilities she can actually control.

A Visionary Midlife

Some visions are a warning. Hers is a deadline.

Mel Bracewell's job at the Chicago Office of Paranormal Affairs usually involves looking backward. As a psychometric, she touches an object and experiences its past. But when she picks up a dead precog's sketchbook, the timeline violently flips. For the first time in her life, Mel isn't seeing a crime that has already happened. She's seeing an assassination that's going to happen. And the clock is ticking.

A Buried Midlife

One buried secret. One dead partner. One very patient killer.

Somebody's kept a Bridgeport warehouse suspiciously spotless for fifteen years.