About this book:

When the rain turns Portlake’s streets into black‑water canals, a quiet epidemic of disappearances begins—an accountant, a librarian, a dockworker—each vanishing without a trace, leaving only fear in their wake. Detective Miles Harding is thrust into a race against a rising tide, where every clue points to the river itself, and a cryptic prayer card hints at a ritual far older than the city’s floods.

As the bodies surface tangled in iron weights and a mysterious brass coin etched with a thirty‑year‑old date, Harding uncovers a pattern that binds the victims to a forgotten past and a killer who treats the Blackwater as both tomb and messenger. With the councilman’s daughter now missing, the stakes explode into a political firestorm that could drown the entire department in scandal—and the city in terror.

*Shadows Over the River* is a pulse‑pounding thriller where every drop of rain hides a secret, every shadow conceals a motive, and the truth lies buried beneath the current. If you crave a story that blends gritty police procedural, relentless suspense, and a haunting, mythic river that will not give up its dead, this is the novel you’ve been waiting for. Dive in—if you dare.