Unquiet Ghosts

May 8, 2017
Kath Kelly Hayes, the narrator of this tortuous tale of greed and violence from Meade (The Last Witness), is the daughter of retired colonel Frank Kelly. Her first husband, Army chopper pilot Jack Hayes, disappeared eight years earlier with their children, Sean and Amy, and all are presumed dead in a plane crash. Her brother, Kyle, returned from duty in Iraq with PTSD and has been largely incapacitated since a failed suicide attempt. When the wreckage of Jack’s plane is located in an isolated spot of the Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee, hints appear that he and the children may have survived. An ominous phone call from Jack starts a harrowing journey for Kath as she tries to learn the fate of Sean and Amy and the reason for Jack’s long silence. Meade goes overboard in making a conspiracy involve virtually everyone Kath loves and trusts in this saga of a military family damaged by the horrors of war. Agent: Claudia Cross, Folio Literary Management.

May 15, 2017
Kathy Kelly's husband, Jack, and the couple's children were killed in an airplane crash eight years ago. Now, finally, the plane's wreckage has been found, but there's no sign of Jack's body. Kathy soon discovers that Jack might have faked his own death and that he might have been somehow connected to the apparent suicide of Kathy's mother. When a man calls Kathy on the phone, claiming to be Jack, she is plunged into a terrifying world of secrets and lies. Meade, who's written a string of top-flight thrillers, has a real knack for creating lifelike, compelling characters and placing them in situations that are simultaneously larger than life yet believable.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)