When Ghosts Come Home
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- 65,00 kr
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- 65,00 kr
Publisher Description
An abandoned plane. A dead body. A small town threatening to explode.
'A searing, thunderous, heartbreaking thriller.' Chris Whitaker
Winston did not hear it so much as feel it as it passed over their house and into the trees across the waterway.
The sheriff struggling for re-election and haunted by his past.
The mystery plane which crash-lands on his island.
The daughter returning home to hide from her troubles.
The FBI pilot sent in to help.
As the mystery of the abandoned plane and the dead body stokes long-simmering racial tensions, a moment of reckoning draws ever closer for the town of Oak Island. When Ghosts Come Home is the thrilling new page-turner from prize-winning novelist Wiley Cash.
'An unputdownable knock-out.' Lauren Wilkinson, author of American Spy
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The trouble for Sheriff Winston Barnes, the upstanding hero of this leisurely whodunit set in 1984 from bestseller Cash (A Land More Kind than Home), begins when he drives late one night to the tiny Oak Island, N.C., airport, where an airplane has crash landed. On the runway near the plane, which is empty, lies the body of Rodney Bellamy, who's been shot to death. Rodney went to school with Winston's estranged daughter, Colleen, and was the son of one of the county's leading civil rights advocates. An FBI investigation into the mysterious plane, which may have been carrying cocaine, threatens Winston's image as a capable cop—and his chances in a tough re-election against rich boy Bradley Frye. Racial tensions escalate as Frye's crew of thugs threaten Rodney's widow and her 14-year-old brother. Meanwhile, Colleen is in town from Texas to figure out her law career and marriage after the death of her baby. A surfeit of background exposition and multiple tangential story lines slow the momentum of the murder plot. This rich character-driven tale works best as a social portrait of a community and an era.
