Book Review: A Haunting In Oregon (The River) By Michael Richan

Paperback: 258 pages

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (September 13, 2013)

A Haunting in Oregon is the second book in The River series. The first was The Bank of The River. Now out are the third in the series, Ghosts of Our Fathers and finally, Ximere.

All four novels are based in the northwest.  Richan lives in Seattle, Washington.

Roy and his son Steven have a gift. They can dip into the river, kind of like an invisible, information highway, and see into some kind of other dimension where ghosts live.  In A Haunting… they are invited to solve a problem of ghosts and death occurring in a hotel near Medford, Oregon. The different invisible beings and the assistance from other gifted people dad and son call on, can be a little like Grimm the TV series. The story is unlike anything I’ve ever read. I like the characters, and the problems the two face is very creative. I already had the first book in the series on my Kindle, now I’ll add Ghosts of Our Fathers.

Was the book scary? In a way. I made the mistake of reading right before bedtime last night and it was a little unnerving to turn out the light.