Storm Rising

A dash of the paranormal spices this exciting crime novel from Schofield (Time of Departure). Five years after the murder of Kevin Hendricks’s police detective father, the four-year-old boy demands to go home to Bayonne, N.J., a place he has never been. Kevin’s mother, Lucy, grows increasingly uneasy as he recalls memories he couldn’t possibly have. Lucy fled to Florida from New Jersey when the investigation into Jack’s death concluded that he was crooked. At last ready to face her past, Lucy returns to Bayonne, where she looks into Jack’s death, uncovering a car theft ring and another police officer’s murder that Jack was investigating on his own time. Turning her evidence over to deputy prosecutor Robert Olivetti leads to Lucy learning of her own family’s ties to a Mafia don, Dominic Lanza, and when forced into a partnership with Lanza, Lucy must untangle the lies of the past to save her son and herself. Readers will gladly suspend disbelief as Schofield takes them on a whirlwind ride. Agent: Kim Witherspoon, Inkwell Management. (Nov.)