Publication: 28th March 2024 – Michael Joseph
April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn.
They’re on a long dark road, late at night, and they see a woman up ahead, clearly in trouble.
They stop and pick her up. It’s only once she’s in the car that they see the blood.
And then they see the headlights, and at last, the woman speaks, her voice faint. “I’m sorry, he’s coming.”
While April and Eddie are able to escape – this time – their terrifying adventure is only just beginning.
The hitchhiker’s injuries prove fatal, and the couple are trapped in the small town of Coldlake Falls, prime suspects in the eyes of local police.
It turns out that this isn’t the first victim to die on this stretch of road, and it isn’t the first time that survivors have seen something that can’t be explained.
But to get out of town, April and Eddie are going to have to drive down that haunted stretch of road one more time…
Ingeniously plotted and heartstoppingly terrifying, are you ready to uncover the secret of Murder Road?
April and Eddie have just got married. They are on their way to a resort by the lake for their honeymoon, but, somehow, they took a wrong turn and found themselves on a deserted road in the middle of the night. As they try to figure out where they are, they notice someone walking on the side of the road. They ask the young woman if she needs help and they soon realize that she has been stabbed and a car is following them. They manage to take her to the nearest hospital, but she dies soon after and now the police considers them suspects. When they discover that she is not the first person to be killed on that road in the last few decades, April and Eddie decide to start to investigate on their own. And the series of mysterious murders on a remote road in the span of decades is not the only thing that kept me on the edge of my seat. April is hiding her own secrets, a twisty and intriguing past that is slowly and shockingly revealed.
I don’t usually read thrillers with paranormal elements, but for a Simone St. James’s novel I always make an exception. I love her writing and Murder Road is yet another chilling, dark, and gripping novel. An isolated road in the middle of the night, victims that no one is going to look for, a possible serial killer, a couple whose honeymoon is ruined before it’s even started and determined to find out the truth. Who was the young girl who was killed and how did she end up on the side of the road in the middle of the night? Is there a serial killer who has been killing for more than 20 years or none of the murders are connected? I couldn’t put it down!
A huge thank you to Michael Joseph and NetGalley for providing me with a proof of the novel.
Simone St. James is the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases and The Sun Down Motel. She spent twenty years behind the scenes in the television business before leaving to write full-time.. Her debut novel, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, won two RITA Awards from Romance Writers of America and an Arthur Ellis Award from Crime Writers of Canada.
Simone spent twenty years behind the scenes in the television business before leaving to write full-time. She lives just outside of Toronto, Canada with her husband and a spoiled rescue cat.
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