Haunting Refrain by Ellis Vidler

[Jax14]

A powerful psychic vision is always a great way to start a story with a solid punch of imagery. Enter our scatty, redheaded heroine Kate, who is testing her psychic abilities in a parapsychology group. Her intensely strong and graphic vision from touching the victim's sweatband, places her in the throes of being strangled ; but not clearly enough to see the killer's face. So begins the race to connect the dots and put a face to the killer.
The characters are generally well written and easy to relate to. Kate is a portrait photographer who experiences tinges of psychic ability. Her best friend Venice is a clairvoyant with a flair for the dramatic-whether in her appearance or theatrical presentation. John is a newspaper reporter determined to print the truth and potential love interest for Kate. Rounding out the whodunnit are the head of the parapsychology class, a helpful detective and other sideline characters that are woven into the story.
So here you have the basics of a good mystery. Unfortunately a number of things interfere with making this a well rounded story (which would lead to terrible spoiler alerts so-sorry!)
I will give props for the editing though-no blindingly apparent mistakes. If you wanted a light read without having to think too much this is a bit of fun for the day. As soon as you start looking deeply into it however, certain behaviours and instances start grating at your consciousness. Not a bad book but definitely one I was not engrossed in.