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Body of Intuition

Body of Intuition

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My Kind of Whodunit
Review: Body of Intuition by Claire Daniels (Berkley Prime Crime) is my kind of whodunit. The plot was intriguing, the clues fair (not too easy, not too hard), the charcters wonderfully developed and unique. And then there is the protagonist, Cally Lazar. If she wasn't fictional, I'd marry her myself. She is a witty, lively, smart, and good-hearted alternative healer who uses all of her skills to find a murderer at an ill-fated and sometimes hysterically funny intimacy seminar. I read the book in one sitting. And now I want to see the sequel. I rate both Cally and Body of Intuition five-star delights.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My Kind of Whodunit
Review: Body of Intuition by Claire Daniels (Berkley Prime Crime) is my kind of whodunit. The plot was intriguing, the clues fair (not too easy, not too hard), the charcters wonderfully developed and unique. And then there is the protagonist, Cally Lazar. If she wasn't fictional, I'd marry her myself. She is a witty, lively, smart, and good-hearted alternative healer who uses all of her skills to find a murderer at an ill-fated and sometimes hysterically funny intimacy seminar. I read the book in one sitting. And now I want to see the sequel. I rate both Cally and Body of Intuition five-star delights.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: creative New Age psychic
Review: Cally Lazar is a recovering lawyer who joined a twelve-step recovery program to make sure she doesn't fall back into practicing jurisprudence. After she quit the legal profession, she became a masseuse. With some of her patients, she sees auras that enable her to know what is wrong and how to heal the patient.

Cally works with Tricia Snell, whose deceased husband insists he did not commit suicide but was murdered. Tricia convinces Cally to attend an intimacy workshop at the Inn at Fiebre where the same attendees will be present. She agrees to go and her friends Warren Kapp and Dee Dee Lee accompany her. When they arrive and start questioning people, it seems everyone disliked Seager Snell and had a reason to kill him, but the murderer intends to make Cally the next victim if she doesn't stop snooping around.

Claire Daniels has written a creative New Age psychic mystery staring a heroine that it is impossible not to like. The author writes in a breezy easy going and humorous manner so that readers don't feel overwhelmed from the complex plot with numerous viable suspects. This is the first installment in what looks to be a unique hit series. Let's hope in the next book, the author clues the reader in to why the protagonist quit practicing law though perhaps Cally was simply ahead of her time and just frustrated by judges Determining No to Aura-ology as supporting evidence.

Harriet Klausner

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: creative New Age psychic
Review: Cally Lazar is a recovering lawyer who joined a twelve-step recovery program to make sure she doesn't fall back into practicing jurisprudence. After she quit the legal profession, she became a masseuse. With some of her patients, she sees auras that enable her to know what is wrong and how to heal the patient.

Cally works with Tricia Snell, whose deceased husband insists he did not commit suicide but was murdered. Tricia convinces Cally to attend an intimacy workshop at the Inn at Fiebre where the same attendees will be present. She agrees to go and her friends Warren Kapp and Dee Dee Lee accompany her. When they arrive and start questioning people, it seems everyone disliked Seager Snell and had a reason to kill him, but the murderer intends to make Cally the next victim if she doesn't stop snooping around.

Claire Daniels has written a creative New Age psychic mystery staring a heroine that it is impossible not to like. The author writes in a breezy easy going and humorous manner so that readers don't feel overwhelmed from the complex plot with numerous viable suspects. This is the first installment in what looks to be a unique hit series. Let's hope in the next book, the author clues the reader in to why the protagonist quit practicing law though perhaps Cally was simply ahead of her time and just frustrated by judges Determining No to Aura-ology as supporting evidence.

Harriet Klausner

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Dack & Criminy Got to Go
Review: I enjoyed the books throughly and Ms. Daniels is a gifted writer. I agree with all of the other comments. Ms. Daniels if you're listening, please get rid of those made up words. They don't add anything to the plot and had kind of a negative effect on the flow of the words. I hope you make this a series.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Dack & Criminy Got to Go
Review: I enjoyed the books throughly and Ms. Daniels is a gifted writer. I agree with all of the other comments. Ms. Daniels if you're listening, please get rid of those made up words. They don't add anything to the plot and had kind of a negative effect on the flow of the words. I hope you make this a series.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Healing laughter, a mystery package--Cane Fu even
Review: I enjoyed this book. I found it a holistic prescription for fun-enjoyable side effects including laughter and a riveting story. Claire Daniels has provided a journey into the heart of murder at a "tantric couples" workshop with her heroine, medical intuitive, Cally Lazar, yet the book also made me laugh out loud. Those who enjoyed Jaqueline Girdner's Kate Jasper mysteries will find a similar deft, light-hearted humor (E.g., I adored Cane Fu, the discipline Cally's brother, a martial arts teacher, has created to empower those with canes). The details of heroine's energy healing practice were fascinating and the rustic Northern California setting was fun too--gotta love those goats in the backyard!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Healing laughter, a mystery package--Cane Fu even
Review: I enjoyed this book. I found it a holistic prescription for fun-enjoyable side effects including laughter and a riveting story. Claire Daniels has provided a journey into the heart of murder at a "tantric couples" workshop with her heroine, medical intuitive, Cally Lazar, yet the book also made me laugh out loud. Those who enjoyed Jaqueline Girdner's Kate Jasper mysteries will find a similar deft, light-hearted humor (E.g., I adored Cane Fu, the discipline Cally's brother, a martial arts teacher, has created to empower those with canes). The details of heroine's energy healing practice were fascinating and the rustic Northern California setting was fun too--gotta love those goats in the backyard!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: I want to like this...
Review: I really want to like this book, but I'm torn between recommending it and throwing it through a window. The main character is interesting and sympathetic, the setting believable, and the mystery and resulting cast of suspects were compelling enough to keep me reading through the moments-of-serious-wincing.

Oh, but what moments they were. I agree with a previous reviewer, the made-up words need to go. In fact, I'd like to remove Cally's entire family and all of their history because it detracts from the plot instead of adding to it. The protagonist's family are constantly mentioned, and after the umpteenth reference to "the Lazars" in a chapter, one begins to wonder if they're a family or a species. The worst moments are when all of Cally's siblings descend en masse to the coastal inn where Cally is busy solving the crime, as this seems to be little more than a flimsy excuse to work in all of those quirky personalities that the author clearly spent an abundance of time coming up with. Unfortunately, the Lazars are more annoying than entertaining, especially when they all begin completing each other's sentences. The same goes for Trica, the catalyst character who should win the prize for "most annoying name." While the story behind the name is amusing, it looks too much like a misspelling of Tricia and kept jerking me out of the story. Ditto for the elements that were interesting the first time and grew annoying with the number of times they were mentioned-- especially the "forces of darkness" surrounding Cally's ex-boyfriend and the "cane-fu" sparring between Cally and her lawyer friend.

Cally the energy worker is an interesting premise, and I will read this author again. I just hope that further books in this series are a bit more even in writing.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: good escape
Review: I recently finished Body of Intuition, a mystery
about a body-mind workshop in Marin County,
California, a place famous for spiritual/body classes and
seminars. I gratefully flipped to a front list many times
to keep the numerous characters straight and it was
a big help. Body of Intuition kept me page-turning
(and laughing) through the last page with the whimsical
doings of Cally Lazar. This book was light and
funny. I think I've discovered a new escape from
reality--a Claire Daniels book.


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