Winter weather is discouraging the tourists, so Cass Donovan needs to devise another way to earn income to keep her store, Mystical Musings, afloat. Cass carefully observes people, a skill she utilized regularly in her psychiatric practice, and those skills aid her in providing psychic readings for others. She can't turn down an opportunity to do a group reading at a reportedly haunted house, and the event quickly blossoms into a weekend murder mystery affair. Unfortunately, murder turns all too real when a guest if found dead. Cass is going to have to uncover the murderer if she hopes to save her business as well as her reputation.

OCCULT AND BATTERY is the second book in the Bay Island Psychic Mystery series but can easily be read on its own merits. OCCULT AND BATTERY takes a more paranormal turn than the first book as Lena Gregory is beginning to take full advantage of Cass' skills as a psychic. The bond between Cass, Bee Maxwell, and Stephanie Lawrence has already been established in the first book but it truly blossoms in OCCULT AND BATTERY so readers unfamiliar with the characters can still appreciate and enjoy their friendship.

Cass and her two best friends, Bee Maxwell and Stephanie Lawrence, are a great combination and a lot of fun to spend time with. Cass is beginning to settle down a bit and is much less impetuous than in the first book. I like that we get to meet her ex-husband and former best friend as it gives a lot of insight into her character, as well as her personal trust issues that plagued her with Bee in the first book.

Lena Gregory really kicks it up a notch with OCCULT AND BATTERY! I had a hard time putting the book down, as I wanted to know whodunnit (and no, I didn't guess correctly) even as the twists and turns kept me in suspense. OCCULT AND BATTERY solidifies the Bay Island Psychic Mystery series as a must-read for me!

Book Summary

A murder mystery weekend becomes a little too real in the latest Bay Island Psychic Mystery from the author of Occult and Battery—

Cass Donovan uses her skills as a former psychiatrist to get away with pretending to be psychic, but she’s not about to let anyone get away with murder...

The outlook is not so good for Cass’s psychic shop, Mystical Musings. With winter winds discouraging tourists from riding the ferry from Long Island to Bay Island, Cass hopes to draw in more customers by hosting a murder mystery weekend, complete with a séance, in a supposedly haunted mansion.

But Cass begins to lose her spirit when her ex-husband shows up, along with his fiancée—Cass’s ex-best friend. Then, after one of the guests is found dead, a blizzard blows in, trapping everyone inside with a murderer. Now Cass must divine who did the deed before her reputation and her livelihood fade away.