Gripping, atmospheric, and unsettling…
Overbeck’s latest is a moody, deliberate mystery where the horror lies as much in the real world as in the afterlife. High school teacher Darrell Henshaw hasn’t seen ghosts in years, until his five-year-old son, Leo, starts seeing them too. When the family travels to Saugatuck, Michigan, for a birthday gathering at a lakefront mansion, they’re pulled into the haunting of a Native teen who recently vanished. Locals dismiss the disappearance, but Darrell and Leo know better. And what they uncover is more than just a missing girl.
Overbeck refuses to let genre clichés do the heavy lifting. He doesn’t exploit the tragedy at the novel’s core for drama; he honors it. The murdered and missing girls aren’t faceless plot devices. They are present, named, remembered. The writing is clear and patient, never rushed, never overwrought, letting the reader feel the dread gathering in the corners. But it’s not all doom and gloom: there are light touches of humor and warmth that remind you this is also a story about love and family.
Slow-burning, socially relevant, and strangely beautiful in its grief; a haunting in every sense of the word.
Wild Rose Press
Pub date
ISBN 9781509262090
Number of page: 414
Price $22.99 (USD) Paperback, $5.99 Kindle edition
