Hallie Michaels

Deborah Coates’s dark fantasy series begins when a young woman returns to her South Dakota home on compassionate leave from the Afghan War. In book one Wide Open (“a refreshingly original dark fantasy debut.”- Publishers Weekly), Sargent Hallie Michaels is greeted by the ghost of her sister at the airport, who allegedly committed suicide. Hallie teams up with Sheriff Boyd Davies to find out the truth about her sister’s death in this atmospheric take of rural America. The series continues with even darker encounters with the paranormal in Deep Down and Strange Country.

“Twin Peaks meets Dean Koontz… Deborah Coates offers a pitch-perfect sense of place, an uncanny knack for dialogue, and a complex heroine who’s mad, sad, tenacious, and tough–exactly the person you’d pick to investigate your own murder.” — Sharon Shinn, author of Troubled Waters