The Garnet McGee Series — Joanne Macgregor

At a crossroads in her life, 28-year-old Garnet McGee returns to her Vermont hometown, where a near-death experience changes everything. Can she trust her new, erratic psychic abilities to help solve murders, starting with the one which shattered her life ten years ago?If you like gripping stories, clever mysteries, engaging characters, and a good twist of humor, then you'll love this series!Boxed set includes:The First Time I DiedThe First Time I FellThe First Time I HuntedBook 1: The First Time I DiedThe first time I died, I didn't come back alone...When Garnet McGee returns to her small Vermont hometown for the holidays, she vows to solve the mystery of the murder which shattered her life ten years ago. Then she dies.After she's resuscitated, she starts hearing voices, seeing visions and experiencing strange sensations. Are these merely symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and an over-active imagination, or is she getting messages from a paranormal presence?Garnet has always prided herself on being logical and rational, but trying to catch a killer without embracing her shadow self is getting increasingly difficult. And dangerous, because in a town full of secrets, it seems like everybody has a motive for murder.Book 2: The First Time I FellLiving on the edge can be murder.Garnet McGee returns to her small Vermont hometown, all set to finish her master's thesis in psychology, and convinced that the paranormal experiences of recent months are now behind her. Then she stumbles across a body in the strangest of places, and starts getting unsettling visions of the woman's life and death.Local police assume it was suicide, but Garnet is sure it was murder.Egged on by her eccentric mother, Garnet starts investigating. Police Chief Ryan Jackson is intrigued by the readings she gets about the case, but others are determined to stop her amateur sleuthing. Meanwhile some inexplicably strange things are happening at home.Garnet is determined to find out who killed the beautiful woman loved by so many, but that will mean taking the leap into trusting not only others, but also her own growing psychic abilities. Yet every vision puts her in greater danger. As she gets close to discovering the truth, Garnet realizes that the killer will do whatever it takes to keep the truth hidden.Even if that means killing again.Book 3: The First Time I HuntedDigging up the past can be deadly…Garnet McGee is back in Pitchford, wondering what to do with her life now that she's finished her master's thesis in psychology. Then she receives a call from the FBI's Special Agent Singh. A body has been found, and it looks like it's another victim of the Button Man serial killer.Using her unpredictable psychic abilities, Garnet sets out to hunt the murderer while trying not to become his next victim. Her investigation takes her into the killer's dark past and batters her with distressing visions in a hunt that will endanger more lives than just her own.Meanwhile, Garnet's attraction to Ryan Jackson, Pitchford's chief of police, is growing — despite some supernatural opposition — challenging Garnet's determination never to open herself to heartbreaking loss again..Gripping, scary and unpredictable, with a thread of dark humor, The First Time I Hunted is a suspenseful and haunting murder mystery with a psychic twist.