Shadow Flicker book - Flame Tree Publishing

Detective Oscar Basaran heads to Kidney Island off the coast of Maine to document the negative effects of shadow flickering from wind turbines on residents living nearby, but he is unprepared for what the islanders are facing.

Oscar's research shows that lack of sleep, lack of light, and throbbing headaches caused by noise and the continuous stroboscopic effect of sunlight filtered through the turbine blades induce hallucination episodes in the closest neighbors of the machines.

Melody Larson's elderly father nearly chokes to death after being pushed to the mouth of a monkshood. The pregnant cow of the Granberry family repeatedly crashes into the fence. Tatum Gallagher mourns her young son, who disappeared over a year ago, presumably thrown into the sea by a wave while fishing on the rocky shore, but some people claim to see him only in the flickering shadow.

Aerosource, the energy corporation that owns the turbines, hired Oscar to investigate the claims of the neighbors, but the insurance agent shows no loyalty to the conglomerate, especially after learning that a previous employee sent to the island a year earlier vanished without a trace.

When Oscar meets former science teacher Norris Squires on the island, who was dismissed for teaching his students about the harmful effects of shadow flickering, he learns a theory about Aerosource that sounds too absurd to believe.

Although it seems that the shadow flickering has driven some animals on the island to madness, is it possible that it has caused an even worse mental breakdown among human residents? Or is something more sinister at work on the island?

As the investigation deepens, Oscar discovers that the turbines cause an unexpected phenomenon, kept secret by a select group of people on Kidney Island, who have made a scientific breakthrough and are attempting to harness its dark power.

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