DOUBLE TAKES by Anna Marie Laforest is a literary mystery novel. A musician, a massage therapist, a psychic, and a priest find love and friendship (and themselves) in a double-death that unravels their lives and weaves them back together again.Joyce picks up on secrets from suspects' muscle structure and their conversations 'on the table.' But she has a habit of falling in love with the wrong, and sometimes dangerous, man. Her long-time friend Jon, a professional astrologer and budding psychic detective, brings Gemini-like clues to the case as characters and conflicts become twinned. Meanwhile, journal entries of a would-be writer start to pre-figure the life of her fianc , Jay, who becomes convinced she has faked her own death. And the demise of a dauntless and indebted actor has everyone at Joyce's theatre turned upside down.