Elizabeth Chase seems like the most down-to-earth person, someone I can identify with even thougth she works in the realm of the paranormal. A page-turner with insight and a great deal of soul

I completely enjoyed this series so far but, although this one is very readable, it never got off the ground for me. I would have preferred more about the kidnapping and much less about the fires. Kind of a lazy effort, I thought, particularly the ending which had me shaking my head in disappointment. Hope the next one is better.

This was my first Elizabeth Chase PI book. Kidnapping of 4-yr old child from wealthy community plus arson (out of control fires that destroyed communities and took lives) entertwined. Since this is fiction, I would like to have had a little more psychic adventure in the book. Overall, the book was very entertaining and was one of the few that I've read in the last year that I didn't turn to the back to see if the end justified reading the entire book. Martha's characters are on the whole well developed and believable. There was one glaring "technical" error that was well into the book. Was surprised that it got past both the author and publisher. I will make an effort to read more of this series.

Psychic investigator and private eye Elizabeth Chase sets out to find a kidnapped four-year-old boy and nearly loses her own life in a deadly arson wildfire that sweeps through the San Diego neighborhood where the boy's parents - and Chase's own parents - live.

The author, a psychic herself, paints a convincing, if sometimes frustrating, picture of the psychic's skills - chancy, sometimes cryptic and hardly ever available when you need it. Lawrence tells a crisp, fast-paced story, free of New Age philosophizing. Chase is a down-to-earth investigator who relies at least as much on her interviewing and research skills as on less tangible abilities.

The child, Matthew Fielding, is the son of a telecommunications mogul. There's money, of course, and business tensions, a relative who desperately wanted a child, some angry Eco-terrorists, a gung-ho sheriff's deputy who might be a firebug. Chase doesn't hesitate to seek help from the experts - police, arson investigators, even an obnoxious reporter - and her case proceeds along comfortably conventional lines with helpful boosts from energy auras, telepathic advice and fragmentary visions.

There are a few cliched characters (the brilliant and feisty female arson investigator, for one) but Chase is appealing and her talents believable. Fire ratchets up the suspense and the climax pulls out all the stops.

After eagerly awaiting the 5th in the series of psychic P.I. Elizabeth Chase I was not disappointed. Elizabeth is called in on the case of a missing four year old child. Soon a wildfire breaks out in the community where the boy and his family live and also Elizabeth's parents. It becomes a race against time to find the boy who Elizabeth feels is still alive and to find out who is setting the wild fires. Elizabeth must call on her psychic abilities and her detecting skills to get to the boy, and a killer before he strikes again. Intriguing from beginning to end I eagerly await the 6th in the series from Ms. Lawrence.