Reporting on unsavory practices of a construction company in Miami, things turn deadly for journalist Carson Lynch when her house burns down and kills her nine-year old daughter.
Excessive drinking, a broken marriage, “her life is heading into the dregs,” says novelist Carolyn Haines, whose newest thriller, Revenant, takes place in the delta region of MI, pre-Katrina.
Lynch relocates for a reporting job in Biloxi, MI and is first on the scene where five murdered women are found in a mass grave decades old. There, beneath a parking lot near an infamous Biloxi nightclub, each woman is discovered wearing a bridal veil. Each victim is missing a ring finger.
Within days, two more bodies appear in similar fashion.
Revenant, which means return of the spirit, chases the question: Are the new murders the result of a copycat killer or the return of the original, serial killer?
Haines grew up in small town, Lucedale, MI. “It was like Mayberry,” says Haines. “My mother had polio and didn’t have a childhood so we rode bikes at night and even water bombed the police department once." In return, Haines says her yard was mysteriously toilet-papered by what appeared to be men in uniform on Halloween Eve.
Today, Haines has eight horses, nine cats, five large dogs—all rescue animals. Animals are in every book. “They figure prominently in the characters’ lives,” says Haines.
Carolyn Haines is the author of six Sarah Booth Delaney’s Bone series. Before writing fiction, she worked as a journalist. She first visited the Mississippi Delta region on assignment, covering Parchman State Prison. As a child, she grew up listening to her grandmother’s ghost stories. If you’d like to win a free copy of REVENANT, please send a wedding story to: revenant123@mindspring.com . It can be funny or romantic or both. It can be your story or your grandmother’s or your mother’s. No length restriction.
