The Subtle Things
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Last published Mon, Nov 19, 2018
Wren Porter is a psychic who isn't a psychic at all, she reads people. Based on their behaviors and their body language, she determines likely relationships and careers for her clients. People take her bait like candy. She has never had trouble reading anyone until a young girl by the name of Robin comes along, prodding the medium into helping her find the murderer of her mother. Oddly enough, the police are not concerned with the murder, and its left to a girl and a psychic to find who killed Elizabeth Messenger.
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