An option had closed, and now Leda knew it in her bones-he would officially, certainly, absolutely miss that first flight. Then she felt it: a little “pop” in the back of her head.

Merritt.”īut he continued wheezing into the phone, jogging to a backbeat of someone repeatedly paged to security for a lost item. “Sir, please-if you want to get home this evening, you have to take the rebooked flight. I’m sorry, but I don’t want to go through Atlanta. The original gate,” he emphasized, “for my original flight. I know I’m running really late, but I’m almost to the gate. “The LAX flight wasn’t canceled, but it’ll be… it has been… there were… difficulties.” He was hustling through some crowded corridor of Orlando International Airport, scrambling to come home from a convention. “Next to what? The original flight isn’t canceled,” he protested, and then the background noise drowned him out. I’m very sorry, but this was the next best option.” Merritt, if you die and go to hell in the South, you have to stop in Atlanta first. I promised my kid! Now you’ve got me routing through…” He trailed off, checking his own phone for the updated flight notification. “I was supposed to connect in LAX and be home in time for dinner.

Merritt, I was just about to call you regarding your-” Grady Merritt’s name flashed like an accusation. Leda Foley of Foley’s Far-Fetched Flights of Fancy cringed at her phone screen. Now joined by a ragtag group of bar patrons and pals, Leda and Grady set out to catch a killer-and learn how the two cases that haunt them have more in common than they ever suspected. Leda’s psychic abilities couldn’t help that sad case, but she’s been honing her skills and drawing a crowd at her favorite bar’s open-mic nights, where she performs her klairvoyant karaoke-singing whatever song comes to mind when she holds people’s personal effects. Despite her scattershot premonitions, she agrees to join the investigation for a secret reason: her fiancé’s murder remains unsolved. When his original plane blows up on the runway, Grady begins to suspect that Leda’s special abilities could help him with a cold case he just can’t crack. Impulsively re-booking Seattle PD detective Grady Merritt’s flight, she has no idea that her life is about to change in ways she could have never foretold. Meet Leda Foley: devoted friend, struggling travel agent, and inconsistent psychic. A psychic travel agent and a Seattle PD detective try to solve a murder in this “ebullient tap dance of a mystery” (Christopher Moore, New York Times bestselling author)-perfect for fans of Lisa Lutz’s The Spellman Files and Elle Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan series.

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