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Learning Curve
FBI Special Agent in Charge Dutch Rivers is used to stressful situations; he’s spent a career handling them with efficiency and controlled, strategic reaction. Which is why his promotion to head of a Bureau field office devoted solely to cold cases for the entire Southwest region shouldn’t be a surprise. But Dutch is carrying a dangerous He’s been having debilitating panic attacks ever since his beloved wife, Abby Cooper, returned home after going missing eleven months earlier.
Dutch has no business being out in the field in his condition, but his new promotion requires him to put to the test each new recruit of the team of psychic consultants—PCs—he’s been assigned to procure for the new field office. The first applicant, a psychic-medium named Beverly Carmichael, sends Dutch and Special Agent Oscar Hernandez to Wichita, Kansas, to discover the true fate of a missing boy who vanished from his securely locked home during a dinner party five years earlier. As Beverly’s clues point to a child predator and the boy’s fate is finally revealed, Dutch and Oscar inch closer to a danger they never saw coming, one that could trigger Dutch’s final panic attack and put them all in the grave.
Dutch has no business being out in the field in his condition, but his new promotion requires him to put to the test each new recruit of the team of psychic consultants—PCs—he’s been assigned to procure for the new field office. The first applicant, a psychic-medium named Beverly Carmichael, sends Dutch and Special Agent Oscar Hernandez to Wichita, Kansas, to discover the true fate of a missing boy who vanished from his securely locked home during a dinner party five years earlier. As Beverly’s clues point to a child predator and the boy’s fate is finally revealed, Dutch and Oscar inch closer to a danger they never saw coming, one that could trigger Dutch’s final panic attack and put them all in the grave.
281 pages, Paperback
Published October 4, 2026
About the author
Victoria Laurie
51 books3,203 followersVictoria Laurie is the New York Times bestselling author of 32 books and counting. Over the past 16 years Victoria has created several series and a few stand-alone novels. Her mystery series include: The Psychic Eye Mysteries, The Life Coach Mysteries, and The Ghost Hunter Mysteries. She's also the author of two YA books, When and Forever Again, as well as a middle-grade series called The Oracles of Delphi Keep.
Currently, Victoria is working on the 17th book in both the Psychic Eye Mysteries and the 3rd book in the Life Coach Mysteries, along with also working to produce a brand NEW series called Spellbound set for release winter/spring 2020.
Victoria loves to connect with her fans, and you can find her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/Victo...
Currently, Victoria is working on the 17th book in both the Psychic Eye Mysteries and the 3rd book in the Life Coach Mysteries, along with also working to produce a brand NEW series called Spellbound set for release winter/spring 2020.
Victoria loves to connect with her fans, and you can find her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/Victo...
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October 22, 2026
Loved this!
Learning Curve is the first book in the Psychic Rivers series (no Goodreads series page as of this writing), a spinoff series of Victoria Laurie's Psychic Eye/Abby Cooper series. While the usual gang is featured (Abby, Dutch, Brice, Candace, and Oscar), the series centers on Dutch and the newly created old case division he's now leading. The books are from Dutch's point-of-view.
The events in this book happen around five months after the events of A Future To Remember, Psychic Eye/Abby Cooper book 18. Abby is still recovering from her ordeal and Dutch is suffering panic attacks, mainly triggered when he thinks of losing Abby.
Regional Director Bill Gaston charges Dutch with creating a cold case squad comprising PCs (psychic consultants) and (more intuitive) FBI agents. Abby is on board to train the agents to strengthen and use their intuition and to work with the psychics and to work to make sure the PCs are comfortable in their roles. Starting things off is the hiring of Beverly Carmichael. an older woman who Abby feels is perfect and who impresses Dutch with her cold reading the straight-forwardness. Before being formally hired, she is given a case to work on with Dutch and Oscar, the five-year-old case of a kindergartener who went missing from his parent’s home. Beverly provides new information that sends Dutch and Oscar off to Wichita to chase down her leads... So starts the investigation. To give more information would spoil things.
This book was so good, from beginning to end. I read it within a few hours—and I eagerly await the next-in-series. I love the idea of closing cold cases because of the challenge(s) to the team digging into the past. Working with PCs adds an interesting and intriguing layer. I've loved the same basic plot in the Psychic Eye/Abby Cooper series, but this concentrates more on the FBI side of the investigations.
This book was not complimentary. I am reviewing it of my own free will because the book, or the experience of reading it, moved me to do so. All thoughts and opinions are mine and are biased only by my experience(s).
#Victoria_Laurie; #FBI; #Cold_Case; #Psychic_Eye; #Abby_Cooper; #Psychic_Rivers; #Mystery; #Police_Procedural;
Learning Curve is the first book in the Psychic Rivers series (no Goodreads series page as of this writing), a spinoff series of Victoria Laurie's Psychic Eye/Abby Cooper series. While the usual gang is featured (Abby, Dutch, Brice, Candace, and Oscar), the series centers on Dutch and the newly created old case division he's now leading. The books are from Dutch's point-of-view.
The events in this book happen around five months after the events of A Future To Remember, Psychic Eye/Abby Cooper book 18. Abby is still recovering from her ordeal and Dutch is suffering panic attacks, mainly triggered when he thinks of losing Abby.
Regional Director Bill Gaston charges Dutch with creating a cold case squad comprising PCs (psychic consultants) and (more intuitive) FBI agents. Abby is on board to train the agents to strengthen and use their intuition and to work with the psychics and to work to make sure the PCs are comfortable in their roles. Starting things off is the hiring of Beverly Carmichael. an older woman who Abby feels is perfect and who impresses Dutch with her cold reading the straight-forwardness. Before being formally hired, she is given a case to work on with Dutch and Oscar, the five-year-old case of a kindergartener who went missing from his parent’s home. Beverly provides new information that sends Dutch and Oscar off to Wichita to chase down her leads... So starts the investigation. To give more information would spoil things.
This book was so good, from beginning to end. I read it within a few hours—and I eagerly await the next-in-series. I love the idea of closing cold cases because of the challenge(s) to the team digging into the past. Working with PCs adds an interesting and intriguing layer. I've loved the same basic plot in the Psychic Eye/Abby Cooper series, but this concentrates more on the FBI side of the investigations.
This book was not complimentary. I am reviewing it of my own free will because the book, or the experience of reading it, moved me to do so. All thoughts and opinions are mine and are biased only by my experience(s).
#Victoria_Laurie; #FBI; #Cold_Case; #Psychic_Eye; #Abby_Cooper; #Psychic_Rivers; #Mystery; #Police_Procedural;
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