Don't Touch

by Michael Prescott

You may remember Grace Corday … or, as she was known on TV, Amazing Grace. She’s the psychic who can divine your secrets by holding an object belonging to you in her hand. Psychometry, it’s called.Millions of reality-TV fans bought her act—until the debacle in Michigan, when she inserted herself into a missing-person case with disastrous results. Now she’s off the air, out of money, mocked by skeptics and former fans, and being sued by everyone. Her producer and sometime boyfriend has walked away. Her friends don’t take her calls. Her new apartment has a view of a homeless camp.The last thing Grace should do is get involved in another criminal case. But when the mother of a missing girl in Arizona begs for help, she can’t say no. Rescuing sixteen-year-old Riley Kendrick—honor student, star athlete, only child of a single mom—is Grace’s shot at redemption, a chance to prove she’s not the fraud everyone says she is ...Unless, of course, she’s been lying to herself all along.Plotted with head-spinning twists, exploring the borderline between self-knowledge and self-deception, DON'T TOUCH is the latest psychological thriller from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Michael Prescott.

319 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 20, 2021

About the author

A pseudonym used by Douglas Borton, aka Brian Harper.

Douglas Borton grew up in New Jersey and attended Wesleyan University, then moved to Los Angeles and pursued a career as a screenwriter. After working with several independent producers, he eventually switched to writing novels, a much less stressful occupation. He has published 25 thrillers, starting with horror novels in the 1980s and continuing with suspense and crime novels in the '90s and beyond. His latest book is Bad to the Bone (2015), a sequel to Blood in the Water (2014). After twenty years in traditional publishing, he went the indie route in 2011 and has become one of America's bestselling ebook writers.

Reviews

[Teresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is not Michael Prescott's usual twisted and thriller type writing, but it still holds interest throughout. Grace Corday was a famous psychic, but she lost her fame during a missing person investigation last year. Grace is made fun of now, is being sued, and she's out of money, left to live a lonely life now with no friends. One long-time believer in her gift contacts her from Arizona to help find her missing daughter. Grace doesn't want to lend her some times gift out and risk failure, but yet she feels drawn too. Once in Arizona, her readings fail, she is double and triple crossed, again mocked and ridiculed, but yet somehow prevails in an incredible fashion! I was a bit surprised at the ending, I must say. The story is told by Grace even at the end of the book, and also by Riley, our missing teen. I really liked Riley--brave, intelligent, resourceful, but yet naive because of her inexperience in life and age. She was a treat. Grace? Not so much. I found it hard to like her.

[Diane Saul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grace Corday is a disgraced psychic. She had a TV show and was on top of the world until she was tragically wrong in a missing persons case. Now a believer of hers has called asking her to help find her missing daughter. Is Grace the real thing or is she using parlor tricks to manipulate people. You decide. There are all sorts of unexpected twists in this book that will keep you turning the pages. A great story.

[Charity Sheppard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great read!!

Couldn’t put it down!! I look for Mr. Prescott’s book all the time anxiously waiting!! This one was no less than a great story! Usually I can predict outcomes, with his I never can ! Always turns and the descriptions are never boring I enjoy the comical side of such serious things as someone shot! Thank you and looking forward to many more!

[Carolyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

8.5 - 9.0

[Wordsmith · Rating 4 out of 5]

An off the beaten path entertaining and enthralling thriller with some great twists along the way.