The Long Midnight

A heart-stopping thriller by ED GORMAN WRITING AS DANIEL RANSOM author of The Serpent's Kiss A PLACE TO DIE FOR... Dr. Richard Candlemas's academy had been the place where Meredith Sawyer grew up—a place she had spent her adult life trying to forget. The school's charismatic founder had been gifted with telekinetic powers and an undeniable brilliance, and so had the special children he recruited. A MIND TO KILL FOR... Meredith tried to forget the frightening energies the children learned to unleash with their minds...and the secrets that had drawn her sister into Candlemas's inner circle of favorites. Now her sister was long dead and Meredith was a gutsy Chicago reporter with Candlemas's school as only a bad memory. A TERROR TO SCREAM FOR... Or so she thought. Then police detective Tom Gage showed up, investigating a bizarre murder of an old academy teacher. Journeying down the twisted alleyways of the past might lead to the answers Gage needed...or sweep Meredith into a vortex of terror. For the truth about Candlemas could foretell terrible destruction—and put Meredith and Gage in an electrifying race with death. "Ransom's writing is strong, fast and sleek as a bullet. He's one of the best." —Dean R. Koontz

Ed Gorman (Daniel Ransom) - SHAMUS, ANTHONY & ELLERY QUEEN AWARD-WINNING author Ed has worked in politics as both a speechwriter and a TV producer. He has won the Shamus, Anthony, Ellery Queen, Spur, and International Fiction Awards. He has been nominated twice for an Edgar and once for the Silver Dagger. His other work includes the Sam McCain series and the Jack Sawyer series. A feature film based on his novel The Poker Club is forthcoming. Ed also writes under the pen name Daniel Ransom.