To Catch a Storm
Represented by Stephanie Cabot
How do we know what is true? How do we learn to trust people who experience the world in completely opposite ways from ourselves?
When her husband’s car is found abandoned and on fire—in the middle of a rainstorm—the police suspect Eve Roth had something to do with it. After all, her husband was suspended from the University of Iowa for inappropriate conduct with a student, and who else but an atmospheric physicist could incinerate a car in a downpour? But Eve has no idea why her husband disappeared and is desperate to find him, for both herself and her beloved, disabled father-in-law.
Jonah Kendrick appears on their doorstep with a theory. He’s seen Eve’s husband, bound and bleeding in a barn. A psychic detective who dreams of the lost, Jonah has helped find missing people his entire life. This isn’t the first time he’s dreamed about this barn, though. He saw his niece trapped there four months ago, and she’s still missing.
Eve rejects anything to do with psychics, but their investigations soon collide. As the temperature drops and turns the world to ice, Eve and Jonah race across the state to discover what happened to the people they’ve lost. But the truth is more deadly than they expected, and the physicist and the psychic must learn to believe in each other if they want to get out of this storm alive.
Reviews
“[P]ropulsive… Mejia sets things up nicely for further teamwork and conflict between Jonah and Eve, at the nexus point of what we can—and choose to—believe in.” — New York Times
“Mejia delivers her best work yet in this propulsive, intelligent page-turner… Mejia gives Eve and Jonah uncommon depth, which makes their potentially clichéd skeptic/believer dynamic feel surprisingly fresh… This indelible thriller has series potential.” — Publishers Weekly
“Mejia has created a tangled web seen through the eyes of Eve, Jonah, and Max that extends far beyond two missing people. The story ricochets between the laws of physics and psychic dreams as Eve and Jonah work together, with Max circling around them… An intense, adrenaline-fueled thriller.” — Kirkus
“[A] taut thriller that balances scientific research and a plot that just won’t quit. Give to fans of chilling, chilly, plot-driven thrillers with strong characters.” — Booklist
“A lot of people may think of the Midwest as nothing but placid fields of corn and soybeans. Mindy Mejia’s stunning new thriller will change that. Set during a deadly ice storm, Mejia’s story rushes across the frozen Iowa landscape in a fury of fire and a hail of bullets. I finished To Catch A Storm in two sittings. If I didn’t have to sleep, I’d have done it in one. Swear to God, this book is absolutely unputdownable.” — William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author of the Cork O’Connor Mystery Series
“To Catch a Storm is a breathless tempest of a thriller. I was swept away by the nonstop action and utterly invested in Mindy Mejia’s rich, believable cast of characters. With deep compassion and insight, Mejia weaves seemingly contradictory worldviews (that of a physicist and psychic) into a captivating and timely story that hits all the right notes. An outstanding read.” — Nicole Baart, bestselling author of Everything We Didn’t Say and The Long Way Back
“To Catch a Storm is a wonderful blend of science and the supernatural—physics and psychics specifically—with pulse-pounding action and twists upon twists that will have readers gasping while grasping for answers… the Thriller-verse is much better off when Mindy Mejia releases another compelling novel.” — Best Thriller Books
“In Mejia’s latest (the launch of a new series), an atmospheric physicist with a husband gone missing teams up with an unlikely partner—a self-declared psychic detective. The pair begin a mad dash around Iowa, fighting the elements, fleeing authorities, and wrestling with doubt and skepticism along the way. Mejia brings out the tension perfectly and crafts a thriller that will drive readers barreling forward.” — Dwyer Murphy, CrimeReads
“In a series of ingenious action sequences, Mindy Mejia puts this unlikely couple through their paces as they hurtle over the icy landscape and into an incongruously sinister situation in the cornfields of Iowa. Like her heroine, who is always scanning the sky, Mejia aims high with this ambitious thriller and succeeds on every level.” — Lisa Hendricksson, AirMail