With only a touch, Michael Calrissi can read your thoughts. His psychic skills, however, are a double-edged sword: an effective tool for tracking down serial killers, but an obstacle for keeping friends or lovers. In “The Spider Bite Murders,” he investigates a string of disappearances in a remote California forest. Soon, Calrissi psychically pries into the secrets of both his detective partner and a would-be girlfriend, alienating both. His skill also reveals that something—or someone—is living in the oaky canyons, using deadly spiders as a weapon. Can Calrissi channel his abilities and crack the ghoulish case, rebuild the bridges he’s torched, and save the lives of the two people closest to him?