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The Leger Hotel Mysteries #5
Leger's Dream
An elderly woman, claiming to be a psychic who can read tea leaves and tarot cards visits the hotel with a warning for Annabella about Leger himself and how he is not to be trusted. When Leger has a nightmare about Annabella where he is to blame for her untimely death, he begins to wonder if perhaps he really is bad luck. However, Lily is more concerned with the psychic's behaviour and uncovers a startling truth about her... Can Leger and Lily reveal the woman's true identity before it's too late?
47 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 25, 2015
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About the author
Lacey Dearie
69 books96 followersLacey Dearie is a writer from Ayrshire, Scotland. She has lived her whole life in the Ayrshire countryside and sets many of her stories in this area, or in the places where her extended family live.
On leaving school in 1995, she chose an entrepreneurial career path, which later led to a job in book-keeping before working for over a decade as a paralegal. She also ran a small perfumery for a short time and has worked as a mystery shopper since 2007, partly because she likes the glamour of being a spy, although it's actually super boring and there's a lot of paperwork involved.
She returned to study in her 30s, undertaking a BA in Arts & Humanities with the Open University in Scotland, where she gained a distinction in creative writing. She has also studied Comparative and World Literature with Harvard's online program, Harvard X and History of Religion, specifically magical beliefs in the Middle Ages with the Universitat de Barcelona.
Since 2002, she has written for a variety of publications, both in print and online. She is the author of 39 cat sleuth novellas, 2 chick-lit novels, 3 stories about sexually active foods and a blog named Rock Paper Spirit. She has also written a Chaka Demus and Pliers tribute musical, just to pass the time.
She has been an associate member of the Cat Writers Association since 2018.
On leaving school in 1995, she chose an entrepreneurial career path, which later led to a job in book-keeping before working for over a decade as a paralegal. She also ran a small perfumery for a short time and has worked as a mystery shopper since 2007, partly because she likes the glamour of being a spy, although it's actually super boring and there's a lot of paperwork involved.
She returned to study in her 30s, undertaking a BA in Arts & Humanities with the Open University in Scotland, where she gained a distinction in creative writing. She has also studied Comparative and World Literature with Harvard's online program, Harvard X and History of Religion, specifically magical beliefs in the Middle Ages with the Universitat de Barcelona.
Since 2002, she has written for a variety of publications, both in print and online. She is the author of 39 cat sleuth novellas, 2 chick-lit novels, 3 stories about sexually active foods and a blog named Rock Paper Spirit. She has also written a Chaka Demus and Pliers tribute musical, just to pass the time.
She has been an associate member of the Cat Writers Association since 2018.
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January 9, 2016
The 18th and possibly final Leger story. I would have normally gobbled this one up months ago, but I kept holding off. For I knew, or heard of the author's pulling back from publishing. And I wanted to hold off on reading the possible last story.
This was a story tinged with sadness. Things coming to an end, families breaking apart, dreams of being the cause of the death for a loved one, the death of innocents. Well, strike that last s there (and add an 'an' before innocent).
I assume to drum up business, though it isn't explained, a psychic has been hired to do a thrice a week show. And business has, in fact, picked up, so much so that there's feelings that the McInnes family can't keep up. Or, at least, Hugh makes a comment like that, and Annabella is flustered, nervous, and fearful. To a certain extent because of 'misplaced' money, to a certain extent because the psychic has reminded Annabella about how much bad luck she seems to have had recently. The psychic pins the blame to a black cat. Namely Leger.
Meanwhile, Lily's rolling around depressed in the office. Batting at cables. Hunting a spider. Watching people visit the office late at night in a suspicious manner. Mostly, though, avoiding Bob the dog. Who still hates Lily for putting forth the idea that Carole might have been involved in a prior mystery. Bob is a very unforgiving dog.
Crimes are committed, mysteries are solved, people are killed (though it takes including dreams with real life to turn that from person to people), cats are fed and occasionally petted, and the 5th Leger Hotel Mystery wraps up, at the very least, the hotel mysteries.
This was a story tinged with sadness. Things coming to an end, families breaking apart, dreams of being the cause of the death for a loved one, the death of innocents. Well, strike that last s there (and add an 'an' before innocent).
I assume to drum up business, though it isn't explained, a psychic has been hired to do a thrice a week show. And business has, in fact, picked up, so much so that there's feelings that the McInnes family can't keep up. Or, at least, Hugh makes a comment like that, and Annabella is flustered, nervous, and fearful. To a certain extent because of 'misplaced' money, to a certain extent because the psychic has reminded Annabella about how much bad luck she seems to have had recently. The psychic pins the blame to a black cat. Namely Leger.
Meanwhile, Lily's rolling around depressed in the office. Batting at cables. Hunting a spider. Watching people visit the office late at night in a suspicious manner. Mostly, though, avoiding Bob the dog. Who still hates Lily for putting forth the idea that Carole might have been involved in a prior mystery. Bob is a very unforgiving dog.
Crimes are committed, mysteries are solved, people are killed (though it takes including dreams with real life to turn that from person to people), cats are fed and occasionally petted, and the 5th Leger Hotel Mystery wraps up, at the very least, the hotel mysteries.
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