Murder Feels Awful (An Empath Detective Mystery, Book 1)
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What if you could feel people's secret emotions?
And you went and tried to use it to catch murderers.
(Maybe this wasn't the best plan...)
Mark Falcon has a secret. He can "vibe" other people's emotions... and they're usually super painful.
Up to now, he's kept his power secret.
But at the funeral for a pilot who dies on a mysterious solo flight, he senses a secret hate.
He knows he's vibed the murderer .. but he can't tell who it was.
He'll need to learn to use his power for real, and fast, if he wants to hunt the killer.
The good news: he's got me. I'm Pete, his super-cheerful new sidekick/housemate.
The bad news: our local cop detective thinks Mark is crazy.
Also, her default mode is Angry Viking Goddess. And the last thing she wants is some delusional "psychic" playing amateur sleuth.
(Not to mention hitting on her.)
With the cops threatening jail, small-town secrets threatening Mark's sanity, and a crazy-gorgeous doctor suspect threatening my heart, time's running out for Mark and I to catch the killer...
Before the killer catches us.
Murder Feels Awful is the very first Empath Detective novel, a new humorous psychic detective cozy mystery series that totally really happened, but is officially fiction.
This novel is complete and published on Amazon (https://billalive.com/murder-feels-awful). But you can read it on Wattpad, chapter by chapter, right now. I'll post a new chapter every Wednesday. Just click that lovely orange button ...
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