When the Ghost Dies

by Kevin Flanders

Some people say he snapped. Others claim he heard voices in his head.

The son of a slain police officer, fifteen-year-old Slater McClarek spirals down a path of depression, mental illness, and drug abuse following his father’s murder. Just weeks after the funeral, Slater is found by police at the scene of a gruesome killing, with all evidence pointing to him as the suspect. But after overdosing on painkillers that night, Slater can’t remember anything, not even his arrival at the scene.

Over a year later, newspaper reporter Reed Wilton is tasked with unraveling the confusion leading up to Slater’s arrest and incarceration. A manuscript recently received via email purports to be a first-person recollection of Slater’s struggles since being committed to a psychiatric institution following his insanity plea. Details in the manuscript offer insights into Slater’s mental state and heighten doubt as to whether the teenager was responsible for the murder.

Is the right person locked up, or is Slater serving time while the true killer walks free? And why does the manuscript repeatedly reference Slater’s imprisonment at the enigmatic Lakeview School, even though no records of the school exist?

560 pages, Paperback

Published July 6, 2021

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