Olivia
Kennedy Kimsey is someone we all know: our mothers. A mother's premonitions
amaze me. I remember as a young man my mother calling me late at night because
she thought something was wrong. I was very sick and had been thinking about
going home because I didn't think I could take care of myself. Similar
situations took place until the day she died. Another mother told me that she awakened
in the middle of the night because she felt her son had died; she learned the
next day he'd died in Vietnam. We have all heard similar stories. We don't
consider these mothers psychics, but it is obvious that they have a special
connection whether to family or friends.
Olivia is
not a psychic, but certain events trigger a psychic experience. Olivia prefers
to call them dreams. She doesn't understand why she has these dreams, only that
they began after she started self-hypnosis to help her sleep. In Looking for an
Honest Man, a young murdered woman seeks Olivia's help, and in the end Olivia
doesn't know whether the young woman is reaching out for help, or is Olivia reaching
out to the young woman to help solve her murder. Where a psychic has several
premonitions, Olivia's dreams focus only on the young woman who was murdered.
Once Olivia solves the young woman's murder, the dreams stop, but the reader is
left with the possibility Olivia's dreams are not over.
