Lightning in a Mirror

Bestseller Krentz wraps up her Fogg Lake trilogy (after All the Colors of Night) in dazzling fashion with this paranormal tour de force. Seattle private investigator Olivia LeClair has just escaped from the Speed Dating Killer with the help of a psychic weapon when she lands square in the middle of a conspiracy surrounding Vortex, a mysterious lab that conducted paranormal research in decades past. Victor Arganbright, the head of a shadowy, quasigovernment agency called the Foundation, is determined to learn the secrets of Vortex’s highly classified Bluestone Project. He taps Olivia to investigate due to her unique abilities and insists she work with the shady Harlan Rancourt, who was thought to have died five years earlier. As Olivia and Harlan race to get answers, a killer strikes and the body count rises—as does Olivia and Harlan’s passion for each other. Krentz delivers a first-rate set of characters while masterfully ratcheting up the tension on the way to a powerhouse finale. Readers will devour this smart, sexy story. Agent: Steven Axelrod, the Axelrod Agency. (Jan.)