VanSickle’s Drew Benson has drawn a reluctant psychic with great care. Inheriting her aunt’s bookshop, a psychic known as Hannah Mystic, Drew’s aunt became the focus of a missing girl investigation when her clues given to police were unable to solve the disappearance and left her reputation in tatters.

Now Drew is taking on the floundering bookshop, ignoring her own gift while she tries to dodge the unwanted attentions of a wealthy young man who insists they are engaged. It doens’t help that her high-powered realtor mother feels Drew should sell the shop and doesn’t stop telling her that.

Trying to keep the shop afloat between herself and her one employee, she’s swept up into reopening the investigation, both to clear her aunt’s name, and to assist an investigative reporter who at one time was her enemy in school, and whose desire to solve the case becomes her own.

It’s a charming look at a small town mystery, complete with tarot cards. I confess to learning a lot more than I’d even known about tarot and psychics.

VanSickle’s handling of that aspect doesn’t hit readers over the head but educates them in a non-condesceding way that transforms this into a highly readable mystery that nicely sets itself up to become a series.