Lois Duncan's The Third Eye

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In Lois Duncan’s The Third Eye, Karen Conners is just an average eighteen year old girl, until she discovers an incredible power within herself, and is sent on several escapades to help find missing children. The book was a very fascinating read and was hard to put down. It didn't have the most action, but it kept you on your toes with cliffhangers and suspense. Of the six different types of mysteries, The Third Eye is a cozy mystery because it involves an amateur detective, a police officer accompanying the detective, little violence, and punishment for those guilty of the crime. Karen Connors discovers an incredible psychic ability within herself one day as she babysits Bobby and Stephanie Zenner. As she was caring for Stephanie, the eighteen month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Zenner, Bobby is sent outside and never comes back, even after being told to stay in the yard. When the Zenner parents, police, and all the neighborhood kids are in panic, wondering where …show more content…

As Karen was waiting for the bus to bring her to her job at the town daycare, Karen is offered a ride by a “parent” who got lost trying to get there. She then brings Karen to a revolting apartment complex, where a man ties her up and slams her head on the edge of the stove before he and the other woman abandon her there. When she escapes, her and Ron leave to find the kidnappers by using Karens visions and their knowledge that they, the kidnappers, were driving a blue van. When Karen and Ron are discovered at the kidnapper's hideout, Ron, having an intense fear of dogs, shoots the doberman that guarded the house, gets shot in the shoulder, with the bullet going straight through his shoulder. As police suddenly started to swarm the house, Ron shot the man who put a bullet through

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