Book Description
Retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney becomes ensnared in a case of murderous political intrigue tearing apart a once bucolic Upstate New York town
The final, thrilling chapter in the fair play Dave Gurney saga finds the storied detective, often compared to Sherlock Holmes, confronted with an intractable nemesis while trying to fix his splintered marriage.
Ghosts are returning from the past to trouble Gurney’s peace as a local election sees a powerful real estate mogul with plans for a massive development face off against a librarian and ardent conservationist. Protests erupt, battle lines are drawn between ideological camps, and the future of a once idyllic hamlet hangs in the balance. When bodies start turning up, and the local police turn a blind eye, Gurney suspects he’s the town’s only hope to stop the carnage that is tearing everybody apart. But involvement comes at a price. His last case nearly got his best friend killed, and it shattered his marriage. In the aftermath, he’s focused on breaking his reliance on police work in hopes of rekindling things with his wife, Madeleine. Can he ignore what’s happening and potentially let a murderer run amok or will he once again dive into the darkness, giving into his obsessive need to solve the unsolveable—even if it costs him Madeleine for good? One thing is clear: this harrowing, confounding case will be his last.
Praise For This Book
Praise for Ghost Barn"I have been an embarrassingly big fan of John Verdon for almost twenty years. His novels feel at once old-fashioned and shockingly new, and his hero, Dave Gurney, is one of the more intriguing American detectives of an era with several great ones. I've never been let down by a Verdon novel and Ghost Barn is yet another winner, a novel as surprising as it is prescient about the times we find ourselves living in. This is a perfect culmination of a series that has riveted me for a long time from a writer who has just gotten better with each book, and I can't speak highly enough about it. Verdon is simply one of the best to ever do it." —Will Lavender, author of Dominance
Praise for the Dave Gurney Series
"John Verdon writes grown-up detective novels, by which I mean stories with intelligent plots, well-developed characters and crimes that have social consequences." —The New York Times Book Review
