Look Both Ways by Carol J. Perry

Look Both Ways (A Witch City Mystery, #3)

by Carol J. Perry

In Salem, Massachusetts, there are secret everywhere--even in the furniture. . .

When Lee Barrett spots the same style oak bureau she once had as a child on the WICH-TV show, Shopping Salem, she rushes to the antiques shop and buys the piece. Just like the beloved bureau she lost in a fire, this one has secret compartments. It also comes with an intriguing history--it was purchased in an estate sale from a home where a famous local murder took place.

The day after the bureau is delivered, Lee returns to the antiques shop and finds the owner dead. The police suspect the shop owner's unscrupulous business partner, but Lee wonders if the murder is connected to her new furniture. At least part of the answer may be revealed through a mirror in the bureau, tarnished and blackened, allowing Lee to tap into her psychic visions. Using this bureau of investigation, Lee may be able to furnish her policeman beau with the evidence needed to catch the killer--before the next one to be shut up is her. . .

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4 of 5 stars

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This one is getting 4 stars in spite of a transparent (to me - I figured it out before page 140) murder plot and some small editing errors (if you're talking to someone on the phone, you can't actually see them rubbing their forehead) because the writing is just plain good.   

Lee is a great MC: she's independent, hard working, modest and she doesn't think she's smarter than the police.  She respects the police and hands them every scrap of information she has - no game playing, it's SO nice.  I was also going to praise her lack of TSTL decisions, but if I'm being fair, she does pull one at the end; it's not a doozy, but it's almost all the more TSTL for its ordinariness.   

No love triangles, a super smart cat that mostly acts like a cat and a mostly realistic path of acceptance for Lee's gift and its development make this a series one I'm going to hang onto, even if the murderer is too easy to spot.

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