Shadow People

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Summary: "Strange things are happening in Playa Linda, California--"
Review: --starting with several animal slayings, three teen disappearances, and a couple murders. As Susan Walker, a journalist for 'The Playa Linda Register,' investigates the unexplained occurrences around town (with the help of her boyfriend, Matt Reiley), she begins to fear something evil is at hand.

Her suspicions are heightened when she accompanies her friend (Lacey Robinson) to a faith healer (Brother Justin), who "cures" Lacey's mother of ovarian cancer, though the woman dies a short time later. As Susan helplessly watches her best friend being "led astray" by the occult--visiting seances and trance channellers--and as Susan receives threatening phone calls, Susan fears her assignment may cost her her life--not to mention the lives of those around her.

The beginning of "Shadow People" was promising, but with the numerous misconceptions that witchcraft/Wicca and Satanism are the same religion, the rest of the book became quite irksome, and it took me a lot longer to finish this book than I thought it would. Christians who like horror/mystery novels might like "Shadow People," though, since it's mostly told from a Christian perspective, but for those who aren't, it probably won't hold your interest for very long.