HAUNTED (G.P. Putnam's Sons; August 19, 2014) is the action-packed new thriller from Randy Wayne White, author of the bestselling Doc Ford mystery series. With the first in this series, 2012's Gone, White introduced a new heroine: fishing boat captain Hannah Smith, who inherited her late uncle's private investigation business…and a slew of family baggage. In between chartering fishing expeditions for locals and tourists, Smith juggles her trade as a private eye along with a budding romantic relationship with Doc Ford. It's a tough business, but if anyone can tackle it all head on, it's Smith. Now, Hannah Smith returns for a third installment in the electrifying new adventure in the New York Times–bestselling series.
The house is historic, some say haunted. It is also slated to be razed and replaced by condos, unless Hannah Smith can do something about it. She's been hired by a wealthy Palm Beach widow to prove that the house's seller didn't disclose everything he knew about the place when he unloaded it, including its role in a bloody Civil War skirmish (in which Hannah's own great-uncle had a part) and the suicides—or was it murders?—of two previous owners.
Hannah sees it as a win-win opportunity: She can stop the condo project while tracking her family history. She doesn't believe in ghosts anyway. But some things are more dangerous than ghosts. Among them, as she will learn, perhaps fatally, is human obsession.