And he thinks Vic is full of crap.Īnd as if all that isn’t bad enough, Vic is having to adjust to a new (and way too perky!) work partner his former partner, Lisa (who is in California undergoing psycop training) keeps leaving him cryptic messages and telling him to trust no-one, and he’s started attacking Jacob while in his sleep. Well, he knows he won’t be able to cope… which is when Jacob’s work partner, Carolyn, suggests taking Vic to see a new-age-type healer who might be able to help him.

His next medical check-up reveals even more bad news the drugs have affected his liver, and he needs to stop taking them – and he doesn’t know how he’s going to cope with having hundreds of ghosts popping up and talking at him everywhere he goes at all hours of the day and night. While on a fishing trip with his former work partner, Vic is unnerved even further to realise that his ability to communicate with the dead has somehow been amplified, and even the large doses of medication he takes routinely aren’t working. Not surprisingly, being continually accosted and yelled at by ghosts isn’t a pleasant experience Vic and others like him regularly take anti-psyactive drugs so they aren’t driven completely crazy by it, but Vic’s talent is so strong that the normal doses don’t do much for him, so he takes more than he should and spends much of his time doped up on anti-psyactives and sedatives. Vic is a level 5 medium – which is the highest rating there is – and he Sees Dead People on a daily basis. Vic is pretty happy with the way things are going between them – although he still can’t help being surprised that a hot, popular guy like Jacob actually wants to be with a messy, fucked-up individual like himself. Criss Cross is a strong second instalment in Jordan Castillo Price’s Psycop series which sees our hero, Victor Bayne, temporarily housing his new lover, hot shot “stiff” (i.e, non-psychic) detective Jacob Marks while the latter looks for a new apartment (his own became a crime scene at the end of the previous book).

Criss Cross by Jordan Castillo Price