Out of the Shadows is the third in Hooper's BISHOP SERIES: The "Bishop" Special Crimes Unit Series Publisher: Bantam. And it is third in the Shadows trilogy.
I decided after this book, I will not be reading any more of this series or of her suspense/thriller books. While it is an excellent book, definitely a 5 star, it is very difficult for me to read the evil portrayed in it.
So, while I like the idea of the psychic crime solvers, I'm more along the lines of White Collar than this series.
Miranda Knight fled from Noah Bishop when her family, all but her sister, was murdered. They were in love, but his mistakes (he thinks) 'caused' the sequence of events.
Miranda is an 'adept' with more powers than most. She has shielded both herself and her sister mentally from the murderer of her family and taken a new identity. She doesn't realize that Bishop found him and he is dead. The murderer also had psychic powers.
When she and Bishop are together, in the middle of sex, it is as if their powers are expanded, but it also leaves them psychically exposed. They are better when working together, using their powers, than they are alone.
She is now the sheriff in a small town, but teenagers are being murdered horrifically. She has to call Bishop's team in to help solve the cases. The rest of the team only knows a bit of the history. They don't know her powers, and the town doesn't know them either.
She has shielded herself so well, that while Bishop has tried to find her before this, he was unable to.
As in real life situations, the reader has no control over who is murdered or not, and at least one character is murdered that I would like to see live.
Her sister's special ability is to be able to see ghosts. You can guess where that leads, especially when a Ouija Board is involved.
The spirit of the original murderer is called forth (or calls himself forth) and there is more mayhem to follow. I thought that that spirit might have inhabited the new murderer, but no, he was another crazy. Very, very crazy.
The romance is secondary to the storyline, but there is plenty of romantic tension.
Do you like this series?
As I said, I made a conscious choice not to read any more of the books.
It is available for Kindle.
Karin
www.savvythinker.com
Originally posted 2010-05-30 14:47:59.
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