Thank you Berkley Pub, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Murder Road in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection.
Publisher: Berkley / PRH Audio
Published: March 5, 2024
Summary:
A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel.
July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They’re looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to be a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long after the hitchhiker gets into their car, they see the blood seeping from her jacket and a truck barreling down Atticus Line after them.
When the hitchhiker dies at the local hospital, April and Eddie find themselves in the crosshairs of the Coldlake Falls police. Unexplained murders have been happening along Atticus Line for years and the cops finally have two witnesses who easily become their only suspects. As April and Eddie start to dig into the history of the town and that horrible stretch of road to clear their names, they soon learn that there is something supernatural at work, something that could not only tear the town and its dark secrets apart, but take April and Eddie down with it all.
My thoughts:
I have been a fan of Simone St. James for quite some time now. She is definitely one of my favorite writers of atmospheric supernatural thrillers and I just love them! I didn’t mean to wait so long to read this one, but it really worked well reading it during spooky season, so I can’t be mad about that!
This book grabbed me right away and it never let up. It’s creepy but not so much that you don’t want to keep reading. And I loved the 1990s setting, complete with no technology. Being stuck on a road with a hitchhiker who is bleeding and not being able to call ahead for help was all sorts of terrifying. But also, the characters just seemed so mysterious that you can’t help but want to find out more about them. That’s what I love about these books – they are so incredibly readable and engaging.
This book is full of twists and turns I did not see coming. It oozes suspense and has just the right amount of creepiness to make it perfect to pick up right now if you haven’t already read it.
Audio thoughts:
I opted to listen to this when I saw that Brittany Pressley was narrating. She did an amazing job bringing this story to life.
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