Wide Open / Deborah Coates / 304 pages / Bram Stoker Award Nominee

Sergeant Hallie Michaels is home from Afghanistan on a ten day compassionate leave for the death of her sister, Dell.  At the airport, she sees two ghosts  - Dell and Eddie Serrano. " Hallie knew something about being dead...she'd did herself three weeks ago, outside Kabul...the medic had told her it took seven minutes to revive her.  She'd been sure he was wrong.  Until she saw her first ghost."  Hallie and Deputy Sheriff Boyd Davies investigate Dell's death and in the process uncover additional deaths attributable to a mysterious new corporation.  This is a riveting page-turner that ends in a way that perhaps indicates that we have not heard the last from Hallie and Boyd.