The last few Anita Blake books by Laurell Hamilton have annoyed me because very little time was spent raising the dead or crime solving. Instead, the majority of the text is “what people are saying about us, and why they're wrong to say it, because this is how they should really see it, but, we don’t care what they say.” Wait for Dark felt like those Hamilton books. People are dying in accidents that raise the suspicions of Clarity’s sheriff. Rather than looking for clues, or finding new ways to use the team members’ psychic abilities, or even using their mundane FBI training, we get conversations. Endless conversations about what happened to Hollis (if we want to know details, it should be our responsibility to read the earlier series books). Endless conversations about psychic ability (if we want to know details, it should be our responsibility to read the earlier series books). Endless conversations about the angst related to strong psychic ability (if we want to know details, it should be our responsibility to read the earlier series books). I impatiently looked forward to release of this book . I’m sad to say it took even more patience for me to finish it. ( )

Not a badly written book, I just couldn't get into the characters. It was interesting enough for me to finish it. NOTE: Pet peeve - If narraters can't go from voice to different voice with smooth grace, just don't. I would prefer the same voice for all. Few can master the switch! ( )

I like Kay Hooper but it's a very bad decision to start reading one of her books when I'm about to go to bed.

When there are a number of mysterious deaths that are apparently accidental but there are too many of them in too short a time in this small town. Each of the deaths have first text messages with "Wait for dark" in them and when the sherrif discovers this he realises that he's out of his depth and he asks for help from the SCU unit. Bishop sends Hollis Templeton and some of the rest of the team. The killer is hiding in society well and is almost taunting them.

While the story was quite satisfying in some ways (mostly characters and how they worked together) I did feel like I was missing something in it and the conclusion felt somewhat random. ( )

This is the seventeenth book in the Bishop/Special Crimes Unit of the FBI series. If you are new to the series, do not fret. She always writes her books in trilogies. This should be the second if numerous past examples have shown, in such a trilogy. Bishop is the head of a unit of FBI agents that he has specially formed, fighting an uphill battle with the bureau and other law enforcement officers along the way, completely with psychics. He recruits them and trains them as agents. They learn what all agents learn: how to use a gun, profile, and old-fashioned police work. Their psychic abilities are just another tool in the toolbox, that sometimes can work against them. Several books ago, thankfully, Hooper began including bios of the returning characters in the books and which books they were previously in (after a while, with so many, you tend to forget), definitions of terms, and a timeline of when the books take place. Hooper, who lives in the mountains of North Carolina, sets most of her books in the southeast, mostly in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia.

This book is set in Charity, North Carolina where there have been three violent accidents in a short period of time in a town where the last accident happened fifteen years ago. The first was a young teacher who ran her car into a telephone pole and it exploded destroying any evidence of wrongdoing. The second accident was when a grill exploded as the local grill master was manning it. No one else was seriously hurt. The third accident was a farmer who was shredded by his thresher which should be next to impossible to happen the way it did.

Sheriff Malachi Gordon has heard about the SCU as a group that solves odd cases but isn't aware that they are made up of psychics. He calls them in to help with these cases especially after he realizes that none of the people had their phones survive their ordeal. He had the cell phone company download all calls and texts and all three of them received the same text at 3pm: Wait Until Dark.

Bishop decides that Hollis is ready to not only go back into the field after her ordeal with Samuel [see Haunted http://nicolewbrown.blogspot.com/2014/12/haunted-by-kay-hooper.html] but to lead the team. Hollis started working with the SCU as a medium, but it seems every time she goes into the field she acquires a new ability. She also has the ability to see auras, heal herself and others, sense, define, channel and use energy, and she finally created a shield for herself. Reece, who is in love with Hollis, doesn't think she's ready to go back out into the field. Reece has a double shield that he can use to protect others and he is also a telepath and ex-military sniper. Also along for the ride are Cullen, a clairvoyant and Kirby, a young empath who is generally upbeat but also gets carded often if she wants to buy alcohol and is often underestimated.

When they arrive a woman has just been found impaled on sharpened tree limbs outside her attic window. So now it looks like murder. How did she get out there and how did the killer subdue her? The husband is devastated and he doesn't look strong enough to have pulled it off assuming the other deaths were to hide the murder of his wife. Hollis is doubting herself beyond reason due to a spell the bad guy cast to hide from her. Hollis is also developing a new ability which is hard for her to deal with as she tries to lead the team. She will also have to make the decision of whether to save herself or risk dying to save a teammate. This was a great book with interesting characters that you care about. I was up all night reading to find out how it ended. I really do recommend this book. ( )

Four horrifying fatal accidents in one small town make the sheriff suspicious. The fourth, a mystifying accident with a threshing machine, inspires him to call the FBI's Special Crimes Unit, which deals with the bizarre. What he doesn't know is that all SCU agents have psychic abilities--and so do most of the criminals they pursue.

Another solid entry in the long-running Bishop/SCU series. Gripping suspense with psychic investigators and a hint of romance. Hooper never puts a foot wrong. ( )