{"id":34608,"date":"2025-06-18T08:44:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=34608"},"modified":"2025-06-18T08:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:44:34","slug":"red-shadows-at-saugatuck-by-randy-overbeck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=34608","title":{"rendered":"Red Shadows at Saugatuck by Randy Overbeck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gripping, atmospheric, and unsettling…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019t 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\u2019re 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overbeck refuses to let genre clich\u00e9s do the heavy lifting. He doesn\u2019t exploit the tragedy at the novel\u2019s core for drama; he honors it. The murdered and missing girls aren\u2019t 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\u2019s 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.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Slow-burning, socially relevant, and strangely beautiful in its grief; a haunting in every sense of the word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wild Rose Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pub date<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 9781509262090<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Number of page: 414<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price $22.99 (USD) Paperback, $5.99 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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