Soda Lake

An existential suspense mystery

Available October 21st, 2025

“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.

 

“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