Thank you NetGalley and Amber Books for the digital copy of the book. I had to get a peek into this book as I have read and watched a lot of detective shows but not many involve or consult with psychics. There is a lot of good information and it has definitely broadened my genres.

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This book is excellently written and described but I just couldn't get into it when reading. I normally like this genre however it is not my favourite. For someone who loves this genre, you would love this book without a doubt.

Interesting Account…
A comprehensive account of both sides of a coin when demonstrating the use of psychic detectives in solving a crime. With clear examples of where leads have paid off and instances of when they have not. Featured cases include The Yorkshire Ripper, Kennedy, Manson and many more besides. Interesting reading..

Many thanks to NetGalley and Amber Books for providing me with a copy of this eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I originally went into this book thinking it would be purely cases that psychics were involved in, but it’s more than that. There’s some history about psychics, some information on how they work, and interspersed with this are cases from the past few hundred years where psychics or psychic phenomenon has been involved. Psychic Detectives was originally printed in 2001, but has since been updated and rereleased.

One of the things I liked about this book was the authors don’t give an indication either way what they believe. I imagine they do believe in psychic phenomena otherwise they wouldn’t have written a book about it, but they include stories where psychics have gotten it terribly wrong as well as when they’ve been spot on.

A really interesting read about a topic I don’t know much about. I’d recommend this to anyone who enjoys true crime and wants a different perspective.

*social media reviews to come*

Psychic Detectives: Using the Power of the Mind to Solve True Crimes by Jenny Randles and Peter Hough offers a compilation of stories involving psychic phenomenon with a focus on the area of true crime and criminal investigations. An initial brief introductory discussion of the past use of supernatural phenomena by seers and shamans of ancient times leads into the bulk of the book relating descriptions of many cases both historical and modern whereby information gained through psychic means is an element.

Although the book presents some interesting stories, the content lacks detail and source information. There are many well known cases included, such as the Salem witch trials, the assasination of JFK and a phychic aspect in the investigation of Jack the Ripper.
Unfortunately I did not find this book as engaging as I had hoped. It needed greater depth in it’s exploration of both the stories and the psychic activity.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC of the book.

Psychic Detectives: Using the Power of the Mind to Solve True Crimes by Jenny Randles and Peter Hough was an interesting read on the work psychics do in relation to solving crimes. Full of cool photos and illustrations. #PsychicDetectives #NetGalley

It's entertaining even if a bit dated. I think that the main issue was that there were no sources and I read it as a sort of paranormal mystery.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

In one sentence, this book left me bored and questioning the author's sources. My biggest qualm is that it has the same clinical lack of personality and enthusiasm found in STEM textbooks, which is a shame since the material certainly provides opportunities for more creative writing. Additionally, there were no mention of sources and minimal quotes to boost the author's credibility. I would have felt much more confident if they had just mentioned some resources or used footnotes in the body of the text. This applies to all factual and historic information, not just mystic.

PSYCHIC DETECTIVES is a comprehensive account of crimes that were solved, or just predicted ("seen"), with the help of psychic intervention. I enjoyed the way the sections unfolded, revealing years of psychic predictions. Well-known psychic predictors, like Nostradamus, were mentioned, and a few lesser known, but interesting, psychics were brought to light.
I enjoyed the book. I learned new information, as I had never heard of dowsing. The book described its history, as well as a detailed account of well-known dowsers. Other psychic methods were discussed, and specific cases were mentioned. Also, the photographs and informational boxes were useful and intriguing.
The book would be a great resource for anyone who wished to study psychics and their relation to cases over the past two hundred years. I recommend it for mature readers, as graphic killings are discussed.
Thank you, NetGalley for providing a copy of the book for my review.
PSYCHIC DETECTIVES will be released on November 14, 2021. Be sure to check it out!

An interesting and enjoyable book looking at the life and work of psychics working to help solve crimes and murders.
Some very interesting cases with some gruesome photos to go with it!
An entertaining read and if you are interested in the paranormal or police work from around the world then this book is one to look out for,

I think this is an interesting book for those who love to explore another side of detective investigation which is a psychic perspective (as what the title said). But i think it is written so formal. For some people, this might make them bored and tend to DNF it. If it written more casually then i will give 5 stars.

If you are looking for a book on the supernatural side of detective work, then you should definitely pickup this book. From the early uses if psychic detectives, to dowsing, to ways it is used today. This book is filled with photos and tales of how psychics helped detectives solve missing persons cases and murders. I greatly enjoyed this book!

this was so so interesting! I’m going to be recommending this to all of my fellow true crime lover friends. The macabre always seems so off limits therefore making it all the more addictive and devourable, and this was just so interesting!! Don’t have anything negative to say about this one, i thoroughly enjoyed it & the illustrations were super helpful understanding the content.

I received an advance copy of, Psychic Detectives by, Jenny Randles; Peter Hough. This book is very informative. From The Salem Witch Trials, to other lesser known case files.

I've seen several wildly different kinds of book from this publishing house, but none nearly as Fortean as this book – and none nearly as problematic. We're told this is a reprint (with revisions) of something existing twenty years ago, hence data from 1999 surveys into belief in ghosts, but it was flawed then and it really is flawed now. Overall it contains a lot of piffle, and just some things that give the frisson of the spooky, and all told the proportions are not right. And some of the contents are just plain wrong, and plain wrongly-judged.

If you know books about psychic things you will recognise the William Blake archive, and naff token-pale-splodge-in-a-photo-is-a-ghost imagery. That's a given, so what do we really have here? Well, building from a historical round-up the first major case is a retread of one psychic's 1998 musings on Jack the Ripper. The success of those musings has been, of course, zero. The same score applies to the need to publish the actual death-bed photos of the Ripper's victims, which I've luckily known no other book to so do. Sordid and unneeded are two words that come to mind.

Next, an extended survey of the dowsing art takes a long time to ever get to anything like a crime. Speaking of crimes, a lot of puff about Uri Geller seems to be stuck in the 1970s, with comments about his on-demand, replicatable psychic abilities, and their apparent sole solution. That is heinously biased and out of date. But then what comes later on is even more heinous and even more out of date. Remember, this is a proof I was seeing late 2021, but for very little reason the narrative regarding something else says that a psychic has the potential to be proven right, because in 2000 someone was being questioned in the Suzy Lamplugh case.

This was when an estate agent was presumably snatched from a London street at lunchtime and murdered. Only the culprit (unknown as he is) knows what happened, but what we all must know is that nobody connected with Miss Lamplugh has ever had any closure about her story, the case is quite irrelevant to the section of the book concerned, and the very notion that an arrest in 2000 will shortly be proving a psychic's investigative ability is really something that should be red-flagged. The publishers really must have seen this as a problem – a lot of unsolved crimes are in these pages, with spurious psychic investigations connected to them, but the Lamplugh case really showed me how tatty and grubby this book as I saw it is, dragging her horrific story in for no reason, and keeping it there because people can't be arsed to re-edit something way past its sell-by date.

And the authors should know better. Whatever their involvement in this reproduction, it's impressive that a lot of the contents are here due to a personal connection to their own Fortean work and research. This does also mean that too much here delves into SHC and other unnecessaries, but they do know what they're about. But in updating (yeah, right) these contents, they've offered so little as proof that wasn't in the original thesis. Lord Lucan has still never been found, and the pages on the Yorkshire Ripper grudgingly state one hit out of thousands was at all correct. The book if anything suggested to me there is little case for the whole phenomenon, whatever might be perfectly readable suggestions otherwise.

And the fact remains that what I saw should not exist in the way I saw it. Whatever Fortean delights it had it has to get a one star from me, until I see proof this is actually built for 2021 from 2021 material. And not the inappropriate and scurrilous and disrespectful.

A detailed guide discussing forensics, crime scene investigation, psychics and the supernatural aspects sometimes used by LE. If you want actual lowdown on the aforementioned and have an understanding of such this would be of interest to you.