The Homecoming - Softcover

"Chuck in an old ghost story and an Indian no-go area and you're deep in Stephen King country - and loving it!" (Sunday Sport)

"Sends a shiver down the spine" (Daily Mail)

"Downright spooky" (Wall Street Journal)

"Strange, outrageous and wonderful" (Washington Post)

"An unfolding tale about every kind of wickedness... Somehow it manages to get tighter, nastier, and more delightful as it rolls toward its lovely and completely black-hearted final pages." (Peter Straub)

When two plane crashes set off a spellbinding chain reaction of murder, inadvertent kidnapping, corporate corruption and financial double-dealing, Niceville detective Nick Kavanaugh has to investigate.

To add to his worries, he and his wife, Kate, have also just taken in brutally orphaned Rainey Teague. Something bothers Nick about Rainey - and it isn't just that the woman in charge of attendance at Rainey's school has suspiciously disappeared. In fact, people have long been disappearing from seemingly placid Niceville, including, most disturbingly, Kate's father.

Using his files, Kate and Nick start to unearth Niceville's blood-stained history, but something (or is it Nothing?) stands in their way ...