Black Widow's Ghost - Hardcover

Rennaker, J K

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 196763226X ISBN 13: 9781967632268

Publisher: Rushmore Publishers, 2025

Synopsis

Some secrets sleep beneath the city. Others wait to strike. Dwight Husselman is called on to investigate a body on Pier 14. The year is 1992, Chicago. In the rain-soaked underworld of Chicago's forgotten alleyways, Detective Dwight Husselman hunts truth like it's a sickness. Dwight must wrestle with the clues, fight demons from his past, and uncover one of the most sinister plots on the planet - an organization so pervasive that it can only operate in secret. What begins as a case quickly becomes a reckoning. Enter Casandra Davis, a trans performer whose past is layered in illusion and whose truth Dwight thought he buried years ago. She is hiding a deadly secret.

The Lido is a decadent rave club full of secrets and dangerous beauty. Dwight knows the deeper he digs, the more the lines blur between justice and obsession, predator and prey, memory and madness.

Black Widow's Ghost is a hypnotic thriller that pulls you under with lyrical grit and refuses to let go. Every truth has its underside, and some are meant to stay buried.

About this title

About the Author

J.K. Rennaker is a debut novelist, storyteller, and multidisciplinary artist based in Springfield, Missouri. With a background in fashion and the arts, Rennaker infuses every narrative with a keen eye for texture, detail, and emotional nuance. Drawing from their multicultural identity and lived experiences growing up in a rural Midwestern town, Rennaker's work explores the intersections of identity, survival, and transformation. Their fiction blends sharp psychological tension with lyrical depth, offering a voice that is as fearless as it is intimate. Black Widow's Ghost is the first novel in a planned trilogy and the striking introduction of a bold new talent in psychological thriller fiction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rushmore Publishers
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 196763226X
• ISBN 13: 9781967632268
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 202