Sometimes These Things Happen
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Publisher Description
Professor Tess MacGregor is a reluctant psychic that is content to hide her life and abilities behind a stack of musty archeology books at the University of Virginia. Her quiet world is shattered when the F.B.I. in a last ditch attempt to save the F.B.I. Director's kidnapped daughter calls on Tess to solve the case. Helped by her sister, Charlottesville police officer Libby MacGregor, the two are thrown into a world of chaos and danger. Misleading clues and a psychotic murderer intent of killing them dog their trail. Following psychic clues helps them with the case but the outcome of this fast-paced mystery is never certain.
Customer Reviews
Excellent story!! Psychic/spiritual thriller!
Sometimes These Things Happen: Blog Notes #1
Chapter 1– This will be an ongoing blog and review as I read the book...
In present time Tess collides with an 18th century object in her office and is thrown into an incident that had happened to the woman in the incident in the 18th century. It wasn’t Tess’s memory but she could perceive the incident from the object. This incident sets up two things: 1) Spiritual beings operating in the physical world can leave ‘imprints’ on physical spaces and items. 2) If one is attuned to this phenomena, such as Tess is (and several other psychically / spiritually attuned individuals in the story are), then they can ‘read’ what has happened in a space or in the presence of an object. In the story, it starts out with Tess being able to ‘read’ a couple of traumatic or violent incidents off of objects (not necessarily willingly—the incidents just jumped out at her upon contact with the objects) but the die is cast; this ability of a psychically / spiritually aware person is revealed to exist. As the story unfolds, Tess is called on, out of necessity, to use this ability to help solve the kidnapping that has happened. Tess has desperately tried to bury the fact that she has this, or any, psychic ability because of traumatic and very upsetting incidents that have happened to her when she was young. Having psychic abilities (which, as it turns out translates to being strongly spiritually aware) had attracted attention to her of others in the world who were similarly aware, but who had evil and destructive intentions. Coming to grips with her special powers / spiritual abilities has made her face her own personal demons and her own overwhelmingly traumatic past incidents.
But this ability to read the incidents, thoughts and decisions that have happened to objects and spaces isn’t the only ability that she possesses, which others who have yet to realize their own spiritual nature have not. More to come...
Takeaway: We are all spirits in a material world. Virginia treats this universal fact in a very real and personal way, unlike many stories which treat it as ‘other’ or freakish. Also, Tess is a tough, strong woman and not easily beaten down by those who would do harm to her or those she cares about.
Liam MacPherson - story editor and friend of Garrison Halibut.