Caught Dead Handed

Many reviewers have echoed my thoughts on this book. It has such a fun premise, Lee takes over a job as a fake psychic on TV only to find out she might actually have real psychic tendencies. There's a cat who is a witch's familiar. There's the great setting of Salem MA and all of its history. Crystal balls, tarot, fortune telling... all gave me delight in the first half of the book. But oh boy, the second half is just not good. As I've said before, I'm really a gullible fool when it comes to mysteries and I like it that way. I fall for all the herrings. But I never figure it out so completely and so quickly. And then I was just bored waiting for Lee to figure it out too. I did like the beginning so much I'll probably give another in the series a shot, but this was not a great cozy in the end.