My Newest Character

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.