Reviewed by Annika

TITLE: Dead Silent

SERIES: Cold Case Psychic #3

AUTHOR: Pandora Pine

NARRATOR: Michael Pauley

PUBLISHER: Self-Published

RELEASE DATE: October 12, 2018

LENGTH: 7 hours, 11 minutes

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After a dramatic end to the Justin Wilson case, Psychic, Tennyson Grimm heads to a small island off the coast of Maine, hoping to clear his mind and renew his spirit. When the dead won’t let Tennyson rest, the psychic curses his gift and orders the spirits to leave him. He wakes the next morning to silence, and finds truth in the saying, “Be careful what you wish for.”

Detective Ronan O’Mara has been tasked by his boss with the chore of finding a more “sedate” cold case to investigate this time around. The handsome cop is only too happy to oblige. He chooses the twenty-year-old case of a family patriarch who was murdered on Christmas night, 1997. The only possible suspects are either his wife or his daughter, who were both with him at the time of his death. Ronan figures this one will be a piece of cake. All he has to do is get his favorite medium to talk to the deceased man’s spirit.

When Tennyson reveals the truth about what happened in Maine, he’s forced to take a hard look at who he thought he was, and what his gift really means. Ronan does his best to help his lover cope with his new normal while he uses good old-fashioned police work to figure out a family who put the ‘dis’ in dysfunction.

Will Tennyson be able to find the key to unlock his gift, or will the spirits stay dead silent?

REVIEW:

Be careful what you wish for…. it might just come true.

This is something Tennyson Grimm bitterly learns one day when he desperately needs some peace and quiet from the spirits that seek his help. The last case he and Ronan worked on completely wiped him out. To recover and recharge he decides to go to a small Island outside Seattle for a few days. Only the vacation isn’t as relaxing as he hoped, spirits are everywhere and he can’t get a moments peace. One afternoon he breaks and ends up screaming at them to go away and wishing his gift away. Mentally exhausted he falls asleep and when he wakes up some twelve hours later he finds that his wish came true. Only now, he desperately wants it back, but hasn’t the faintest idea of how.

At the same time Ronan is back home in Salem looking through cold cases. He looks for the easiest and more importantly the most boring case he can find. He could sure use less excitement in his cases than the last couple of cases he and Ten worked on. In a way he gets his wish, the case don’t present any real danger to either him or Ten and it won’t leave them with scars (mental or otherwise). The only problem is the lack of Ten’s ability to communicate with the deceased to find out the identity of the murderer.

I did enjoy the path this story took – for the most part. I liked how Ten losing his ability really made him, and his family to revalue, to think. For years his life has been run by the spirits that turn to him, with no regards to him. But now that had to change. I’m also a fan of the secondary characters, they round up the story in a nice way.

Something that I was not a fan of Ten running from Ronan – again. Or of him not telling Ronan about losing his gift. At some point he needs to really open up and trust. But if he continues to run hot and cold, I might just go mad. I don’t mean that there needs to be huge declarations, moving in together, proposals or any of that. But basic trust, and reliability, that I do need. Open and honest conversations, otherwise he and Ronan won’t ever have a chance for something that will last when the moments passed.

Michael Pauley narrates this series, and this book, wonderfully. He captures the nuances of the story and brings it to the listener in a way that makes you a part of it. So much so that I listened to this book in one go and then wondering where the time had gone. Not that I minded really, I had a great time listening.

Dead Silent was another good instalment in this series and I can’t wait to listen to what happens next in the lives of Ten and Ronan.

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