A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read by William Rabkin

Gus tends to end up in the line of fire through Shawn's direction, just as Hastings does Poirot's footwork. although Shawn does it mostly because he is a slacker. Shawn, like Poirot, uses his mind to solve crimes. The story has many twists, turns, red herrings – and laughs – to keep the reader turning pages long into the night.įor those unfamiliar with Shawn and Gus, I would almost call them the 21st century's answer to Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings.

All the characters come to life in the book the same way they come to life on the small screen, and even those who have never seen the show will fall in love with this zany crime-fighting team. Rabkin does an excellent job turning the hilarious TV comedy duo of Shawn and Gus into a great pair of protagonists in an equally hilarious mystery novel. Although Shawn runs the psychic detective agency, Psych, he is not really a psychic, so how does Tara seem to know what he wants? And what happens when Tara takes her orders a little too far? Soon Shawn and Gus are running for their lives from both Tara and the police. Tara may be beautiful, but she turns out to be crazy, claiming to be Shawn's psychic slave. Suffering only a day-long concussion, Gus awakes to find Shawn making friends with Tara, the lady who hit him. As they flee the scene, Gus is run over by a beautiful woman. After they walk the eight miles to the impound lot, the guard tries to shoot the duo when Shawn psychically outs the guard as an escaped convict. Things reach a boiling point when Gus's car is impounded and it is all Shawn's fault. well, psyched! William Rabkin's original novel captures the spirit of the TV show so effectively that fans will not be able to help watching the scenes play out in their mind.īurton (Gus) Guster is getting pretty fed up with Shawn Spencer always taking advantage of him. Imagine my delight when Psych: A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read arrived on my doorstep – I was. One of my favorite TV shows is USA's original series, Psych. A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Psych by William Rabkin

A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read by William Rabkin