Now You See Her.NOW YOU SEE HER. Cecilia Tishy. 2005. Read by Anna Fields. 7 cds. 8.5 hrs. Blackstone Audiobooks. 0-7861-8276-8. $63.00. Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. SA Divorced and low on income, Regina Cutter moves into the Boston townhouse town·house or town house n. 1. A residence in a city. 2. A row house, especially a fashionable one. left to her by her aunt. Facing (relative) poverty after her divorce settlement stocks collapsed, she now deals with the problems of her tenant as well as the realities of ordinary life without the support of the resources she had during her marriage. Although Regina doesn't make it well known, she and her aunt shared a gift for psychic ability. An acquaintance begs her to help rid a friend's home of a spirit and she becomes involved in a long-ago murder--and is targeted when she gets too close to the solution. Fields is wonderful as Regina; her first-person narration captures her rueful rue·ful adj. 1. Inspiring pity or compassion. 2. Causing, feeling, or expressing sorrow or regret. rue humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was and her alternating hope and despair at the challenges of her new life. Her other voices are as skilled--the raspy rasp·y adj. rasp·i·er, rasp·i·est Rough; grating. Adj. 1. raspy - unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice" grating, rasping, gravelly, scratchy, rough voice of the neighborhood homeless person An individual who lacks housing, including one whose primary residence during the night is a supervised public or private facility that provides temporary living accommodations; an individual who is a resident in transitional housing; or an individual who has as a primary residence a , the tones of the irritating receptionist who demands repairs for Regina's tenant--and fit perfectly. The story is engaging and suspenseful; one just has to accept that psychic abilities can exist. Melody Moxley, Admin. Svcs. Mgr., Rowan PL, Salisbury, NC |
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