Jack Knife: A Ghost Story

Synopsis

Haunted by the recent death of his wife, Barnstable Academy librarian Alistair MacLantern devotes his time to playing chess beside the fireplace, wagering on football games at the local dockside diner, and trying his hand at a running tally of fall recipes. When pressed into action after a student’s sudden disappearance and the terrifying sighting of a mysterious apparition on campus, MacLantern recruits one of the school’s most notorious former students, the violent Clarke Fennessey. As the mystery of the Academy ghost deepens and the body count rises, MacLantern and Fennessey dig up every buried secret in the windswept dunes and foggy waters around Cape Cod. Their bloody trail leads them across the marsh to the cursed Jack Knife Island, where the shadow of a menacing spectre awaits …