A Killer in the Wind

Stephen King has called Andrew Klavan “the most original American novelist of crime and suspense since Cornell Woolrich,” and A Killer in the Wind displays Klavan’s unmatched talent for pairing gripping thrillers with unforgettable characters.

Three years ago, Dan Champion uncovered a criminal syndicate run by a kingpin known only as the Fat Woman. Champion infiltrated her world of murder, obsession, and perversity. But the case also broke him and Champion began taking drugs and hallucinating . . . a dead child prowling the streets of New York . . . a beautiful woman named Samantha he loved—if only she’d been real.

Now Champion is a small-town detective, hoping the ghosts and hallucinations are finally behind him. Then one night Champion is called to examine the body of a woman who has washed ashore. Yet he recognizes the woman as Samantha, the woman he dreamed about long ago . . . a woman who doesn’t exist.

Suddenly Champion is haunted by a team of expert killers who want to make sure he never finds the truth: about the dead child who wanders through his imagination, the lover who inhabits his dreams, and a killer who has been on the run—in the wind—for a lifetime. The ghosts of the dead are all around him, and Champion has to find out who murdered them or he could become a victim himself. A psychological suspense tour-de-force to rival Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island and Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects, Andrew Klavan’s A Killer in the Wind will make you reexamine what you think you know about thrillers.