"refreshing paranormal romantic suspense thriller"

Raven Callahan has a unique job description of legalized thief as she recovers stolen art for the Antiquities Preservation Institute (API) to return to the lawful owner. API management including Raven's immediate supervisor "Bigs" Bigley recognize that she is the best recovery agent in their firm. What they do not know is why she is so superior to the rest. She has psychometric skills sothat when she touches something her five senses receive images, sounds and feelings.

A killing maniac has kidnapped her current partner Walter; threatening to kill him if Raven fails to steal Vassalo's self portrait from Matador's Auction House in Miami. However, also at the auction house is former cop David "Dax" Maddox who recognizes Raven. He is on a vendetta since he left the force following the murder of his police partner, which he blames himself for; he needs to destroy the killer. Reluctantly tied to a mad man's death threats, Dax and Raven must team up, but neither trusts the other as a thief and a cop, even a legal thief and a former cop, see the world from different perspectives.

This is a refreshing paranormal romantic suspense thriller in spite of combining two overly used recent themes that of the art thief with that of the psychic. Though Raven's skills are more obvious and legit in some ways she will remind the audience of Blanche in Hitchcock's Family Plot. Dax adds to the investigation as he has his own agenda and as a cop distrusts burglars even those allegedly legit. Fans of psychic romantic investigative thrillers will want to read the brisk, unique and fun SIGHT UNSEEN in one sitting.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 27, 2007

Summary

Raven Callahan doesn't do it for the money. She does it for the thrills. As a consultant for API, an art recovery company, she gets to steal-legally. But when her colleague is kidnapped during an assignment, Raven is forced to steal a priceless master painting to save his life. David "Dax" Maddox was the perfect street cop-until a botched burglary cost his partner his life and Dax his ability to see color. Now, with his world gray, Dax has only one mission: to take down the murderer. And he'll use anyone-even a sexy thief with questionable ethics-to get justice. Soon Dax and Raven are forced together as pawns in a madman's scheme. From the heart of Cuba to the New York art world, they find themselves in a race against time to stop the ultimate revenge.