Double Take: a novel by Catherine Coulter

Entertaining*** August 22, 2007

Another in the Catherine Coulter FBI series. This is a direct follow-up to her previous novel in this series, Point Blank, with many of the same characters and a direct plot linkage. Agent Cheney Stone rescues Julia Ransom who is thrown off Fishermen's Pier in San Francisco by an assassin. Julia's psychic husband, August Ransom, had been murdered six months earlier and for a while Julia had been the prime suspect. A big part of the novel concerns August's murder and who might have done it, including other psychics jealous of him. Meanwhile riding into town comes Sheriff "Dix" Noble from Virginia whose wife Christie had disappeared three years earlier. He is brought to town by the supposed sighting of Christie by her godfather. The woman sighted is Charlotte Pallack who bears a striking resemblance to the missing Christie. Charlotte is married to a much older man, "moneybags" Thomas Pallack. Pallack was a client of August Ransom's before his demise. Thence the plots become intertwined until the Gordian knot is cut and the villain revealed.