Discussion Questions
Use our LitLovers Book Club Resources; they can help with discussions for any book:
• How to Discuss a Book (helpful discussion tips)
• Generic Discussion Questions—Fiction and Nonfiction
• Read-Think-Talk (a guided reading chart)
Also consider these LitLovers talking points to help get a discussion started for Double Take:
1. Coulter has said she admires Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock—in fact, this is their 11th appearance in her books. What do you like and admire about them. Do you feel they're well-developed characters? Are they convincing? What about the others—Julia Ransom, Cheney Stone, and Dix Noble?
2. Does Cheney's attraction to Julia compromise his objectivity regarding her husband's murder? Or do his instincts matter?
3. What makes Dix so certain that Charlotte Pallack is not his wife Christie? After all, she's been missing for three years.
4. Coulter did a fair amount of research and based her psychic characters on some of San Francisco's practicing psychics. Were those parts of the book convincing to you? What are your own thoughts about psychic powers? Do they exist or not?
5. Did you enjoy the double strand of mysteries in this book? Did you expect them to come together in the way they did? If so, what were some of the clues? If not, was there anything in particular that threw you off track?
6. What is the significance of the title, "Double Take"? Is there more than one meaning—maybe a double one?
7. Are you satisfied with the ending? Does Coulter wrap up all the pieces for you? Is the ending, perhaps, too pat, or just right?
(Questions by LitLovers. Please feel free to use them, online or off, with attribution. Thanks.)
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