On Halloween night, Private Investigator Jack Colt sees a young woman stuck by lightning on Shades of Death Road. He then begins investigating a series of gruesome murders at a number of New Jersey historic houses that are allegedly haunted.
William Baer, the author of over fifty books, has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright (Portugal), a Fellowship in Fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts, the T.S. Eliot Award, and the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award. His books include the Jack Colt mystery series (New Jersey Noir); the Deirdre Flanagan mystery series; The Gravedigger; Companion; Sportswriter; Times Square and Other Stories; Classic American Films; Luís de Camões: Selected Sonnets (translations from the Portuguese).
