{"product_id":"shadows-in-the-night-john-s-beckman-9798993691145","title":"Shadows in the Night: Lila's disappearance","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen an undergraduate student vanishes beneath the quiet surface of Lake Monona, Professor \u003cb\u003eGarth Myers\u003c\/b\u003e is pulled into a mystery he never wanted to face again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGarth is brilliant in the classroom and hopeless everywhere else-an award-winning chemical engineering professor, recovering alcoholic, and two-time divorcé who lives alone on the lake he fears most. As a child, he nearly drowned here. His older brother didn't survive. The water has haunted him ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when Lila Wilcox disappears after whispering that \"the lake is awake,\" Garth's instincts-and his private investigator's license-drag him toward a truth buried far deeper than an academic scandal. A hidden lab. A sealed sub-basement that doesn't appear on campus blueprints. Residue that pulses like neural tissue. And faint, impossible whispers that sound like a voice he thought was lost forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith his sharp-tongued admin \u003cb\u003eSheila\u003c\/b\u003e, his first wife and closest friend \u003cb\u003eRegina\u003c\/b\u003e, and stubborn detective \u003cb\u003eMartinson\u003c\/b\u003e, Garth uncovers a forgotten research project from the 1970s-one tied to resonance biology, human consciousness, and something that has been growing beneath Madison for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomething alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomething watching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomething that remembers him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs floodwaters rise under the city and a shadow organization moves to extract whatever lies beneath the lake, Garth must confront the trauma he has outrun his entire life. The deeper he goes, the more the boundaries between memory, science, and the impossible begin to collapse-until he realizes Lila's disappearance isn't the first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it won't be the last.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShadows in the Night\u003c\/b\u003e is the first book in the Garth Myers Mystery Cycle-equal parts noir investigation, psychological thriller, and slow-burn speculative suspense. Atmospheric, character-rich, and deeply human, it asks one haunting question: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if the thing that saved you was also the thing that took everything from you?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John S. Beckman,Frank Doyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798993691145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e On the M.A.R.C. Publishers LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.22d","brand":"John S. Beckman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49083888926975,"sku":"9798993691145","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shadows-in-the-night-john-s-beckman-9798993691145","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}