Haunted
Patterson, James
Genre:
Detective Michael Bennett and his family are about to be haunted by a father's worst nightmare--the signs he should have seen and a son's desperate cry for help. Reeling from a crisis that would destroy lesser families
the Bennetts escape New York for a much-needed vacation. An idyllic country town in the Maine woods is haunted by an epidemic emptying its streets and preying on its youth. Turns out the vacation brochures don't tell the full story-the seemingly perfect community has a deadly vice. When local cops uncover a grisly crime scene buried deep in the woods
they consult the vacationing Bennett
who jumps at the chance to atone for his own sins. You can take Michael Bennett out of New York City
but you can't take the cop out of Michael Bennett. But far from the city streets he knows so well
no one will talk to the big-city detective
and the bodies keep piling up. A young
hardscrabble
and forgotten girl is haunted by a traumatic history. Homeless and destitute
she represents the closest thing Bennett has to a partner in his frantic hunt for the ghostlike perpetrator behind the violence. Will Bennett and his unlikely ally unmask the culprit before anyone else winds up haunted?
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