A reader might rightly wonder where Officer Fynn’s police death benefits and pension were, and where his Social Security and life insurance payouts got to, and so on. We’re told that Maddie’s been forced by her unemployed, alcoholic mother to do ‘deathdate’ readings to earn extra money since all they have to live on are the proceeds from a wrongful-death settlement against the city after her father had been killed. One aspect of the story’s setup immediately troubled me. So while a hopeful curiosity drove me to request a review copy of When, I kept my excitement in check for fear of further disappointment. But book 9, Vision Impossible, was a let-down (for reasons I went into at length on Goodreads, but which have no bearing here), and I have been unable to summon the courage to continue the series (until now!). All that added up to books that were enormous fun to read. The recurring cast was wonderful, the stories captivating, and the writing usually free of problems. When marks her first foray into the Young Adult field and she enters it as if she’s been writing for teens her whole life.įor many years I was a huge fan of Laurie’s Psychic Eye novels, practically salivating in anticipation of each new book and devouring them in a matter of hours as soon as they were published. She has published in the children’s book market as well with her Oracles of Delphi Keep series. Victoria Laurie is a professional psychic and a long-time writer of suspenseful and highly readable paranormal mysteries in the adult genre (the Psychic Eye and Ghost Hunter series). Can she right things before it’s too late? A suspect for the investigation, a target for the murderer, and attracting the attentions of a mysterious young admirer who may be connected to it all, Maddie’s whole existence is about to be turned upside down.
Soon, Maddie is entangled in a homicide investigation, and more young people disappear and are later found murdered. When the boy goes missing on that exact date, law enforcement turns to Maddie. Her earliest memories are marked by these numbers, but it takes her father’s premature death for Maddie and her family to realize that these mysterious digits are actually death dates, and just like birthdays, everyone has one.įorced by her alcoholic mother to use her ability to make extra money, Maddie identifies the quickly approaching death date of one client’s young son, but because her ability only allows her to see the when and not the how, she’s unable to offer any more insight. Maddie Fynn is a shy high school junior, cursed with an eerie intuitive ability: she sees a series of unique digits hovering above the foreheads of each person she encounters.
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