Her history as a scryer (or gazer) means she can see visions in dark surfaces. Not only is she dating Pete Mondello, one of the town’s local detectives, but she’s got a bit of second sight into the past herself.

And Lee has other pluses when it comes to looking into the secrets behind Shea’s murder. She asks for help from Aunt Ibby and, of course, O’Ryan even though he's a cat, he’s pointed paws to some good insights in the past. This doesn’t bother Lee initially, but when she returns to visit Shea and discovers her corpse, she wonders if someone from the Trent murder is involved. Shea warns Lee that the bureau has a checkered history it’s from the house where the famed Helena Trent murder took place. Lee’s still buying furniture to replace what she lost in a recent fire ( Tails, You Lose, 2015) when she gets to the store to buy the bureau from Shea Tolliver, she’s thrilled to discover that the similarities between this bureau and her last one include the secret hiding compartments she loved so much as a child. Maralee 'Lee' Barrett’s Aunt Ibby happens to be watching the local television station’s Shopping Salem when she sees an old-fashioned oak bureau that’s the twin of one Lee grew up with. But ghosts in the store's attic are the least of her worries with a killer on the loose.A Salem woman trying to manage the power of her psychic energy attempts to interpret the meaning of a vision tied to a piece of furniture and a murder that’s already been solved to everyone else’s satisfaction. Even the witches in town are spooked, and when Lee begins seeing visions in the large black patent leather pump in her classroom, she's certain something evil is afoot. As Lee and her intrepid students begin work on a documentary charting the store's history, they unravel a century of family secrets, deathbed whispers-and a mysterious labyrinth of tunnels hidden right below the streets of Salem. The Tabby is housed in the long-vacant Trumbull's Department Store. But when the school's handyman turns up dead under seemingly inexplicable circumstances on Christmas night, Lee's clairvoyant capabilities begin bubbling to the surface once again. Her instincts may be killer-but can she catch one this wicked?Īfter losing her job as a TV psychic, Lee Barrett has decided to volunteer her talents as an instructor at the Tabitha Trumbull Academy of the Arts-known as 'The Tabby'-in her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts.

Tails, You Lose by Carol J. Perry