ision: The Reluctant Psychic introduces police detective Trudy Harper who battles with acceptance of her erratic ability which she knows will be lampooned by her hard-bitten colleagues. Five graphic and sometimes macabre short stories bring the mundane and the Otherworld together. Author Jane Sharp brings refreshing realism and splashes of humor to a popular genre. Meet chilling and heart-warming spirits as Trudy battles for justice in this world and its parallel.Vision: The Reluctant Psychic introduces police detective Trudy Harper who battles with acceptance of her erratic ability which she knows will be lampooned by her hard-bitten colleagues. Five graphic and sometimes macabre short stories bring the mundane and the Otherworld together. Author Jane Sharp brings refreshing realism and splashes of humor to a popular genre. Meet chilling and heart-warming spirits as Trudy battles for justice in this world and its parallel.
Everybody loves Trudy Harper. Except for the living and the dead who want to kill her. The Reluctant Psychic Blooms is the final eBook in the popular Vision series starring Jane Sharp's psychic detective Trudy Harper. Trudy moves to the country and makes a new friend in female vet Gus who needs help. Gus's father Paul is a sceptic and 15 years older than Trudy. But they become a psychic crime fighting duo. And perhaps more? These tales set in Australia carry the Sharp signature of suspense, the clash of the domestic and the supernatural, and off-beat humor.
When the midwife Jane Sharp wrote The Midwives Book in 1671, she became the first British woman to publish a midwifery manual. Drawing on works by her male contemporaries and weaving together medical information and lively anecdotes, she produces a book that is instructive, accessible, witty, and constantly surprising.
Life is looking good for police detective Trudy Harper. Not far from turning 30, Trudy has put behind her the deaths of her parents and a dead-end 6-year relationship. She has an exciting opportunity being selected for the new Major Crime Squad. But when Trudy begins to see spirits a world of hurt and pain engulfs her. She must come to terms with her psychic “gift” or be crushed by this world and the next. Jane Sharp’s suspenseful, witty, and sometimes brutal psychic mysteries smolder and crackle to the delight of fans. Twenty gripping Trudy-Harper investigations are collected for the first time in one book.
Trudy, she's back. Reluctant psychic, Detective Trudy Harper, is back with her paranormal “gifts’’ stronger but still beyond her conscious control. And that could be deadly for the living and undeadly for troubled spirits. Vision II: The Reluctant Psychic Returns follows the ghost mystery series debut of suspense stories which gathered reader praise including favorable comparisons with police procedural television shows, The Mentalist and Law & Order.
When the midwife Jane Sharp wrote The Midwives Book in 1671, she became the first British woman to publish a midwifery manual. Drawing on works by her male contemporaries and weaving together medical information and lively anecdotes, she produces a book that is instructive, accessible, witty, and constantly surprising.
Psychic detective Trudy Harper flees Australia to England after the murder of her police partner. She has surrendered her badge but she cannot set aside her troublesome psychic gifts. In more psychic mysteries, Trudy finds anguish, horror and suspense amid scenes of ordinary domesticity. Trudy is called upon to use her police procedural skills administer justice across two worlds and the "in-between". Her own romantic happiness, her loved ones and her physical safety are in jeopardy as the psychic detective finds you can fly but you cannot flee your inner world or the supernatural one.
This book is short humorous essays on the funny side of life. Tired of waiting for fast food, frustrated with holiday traditions, confused by technology, then this book is for you. It will make you laugh and agree at the same time.
This volume contains the first and last novels Jane Austen ever wrote: “Northanger Abbey” and “Persuasion”—both of which were published posthumously. Her first novel, “Northanger Abbey” is a satire of the popular Gothic novels of the time that has at its heart a woman who, unlike her peers who crave wealth or social acceptance, wants only for an authentic happiness based on morality. “Persuasion” is the story of Anne Elliot, an Englishwoman who is surprised to find that her family has rented their house to her now-married fiancé from seven years previous. The stage is set for humorous situations and the promise of a rekindling of old flames. Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) was an English author known primarily for her novels, which critique the 18th century English upper classes and contemporary novels of sensibility. Her use of irony coupled with biting social commentary and realism have led to her wide acclaim amongst scholars and critics, her work contributing to the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Other notable works by this author include: “Sense and Sensibility” (1811), “Pride and Prejudice” (1813), and “Mansfield Park” (1814). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
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