Soda Lake

An existential suspense mystery

Released October 21st, 2025

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“At once a metaphysical, Lynchian pursuit and a meditation on being and nothingness, Soda Lake is an eerie, baroque dream.  John C Hampsey has fashioned a strange and tantalizing novel.”

- Stewart O’Nan, author of The Speed Queen and City of Secrets.

“From darkness and death-art to a detective story that involves probing the inner sanctum of psychological threads and responses, Soda Lake's surreal atmosphere and injection of magical realism results in a moving, heady story of transformation that occurs on many different levels. This will simply delight readers interested in stories of transformation and change that operate as literary examinations of duality, choice, and dreams.”

-Midwest Book Review

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“John C. Hampsey’s Soda Lake begins like a mystery—a man vanishes into a desert salt flat—but quickly becomes a dreamlike voyage into the nature of identity that offers readers an original and haunting exploration of the self.”

-Edward Sung for IndieReader