Book Review: Murder Road

 

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases.

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 a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long after the hitchiker 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 Review

Talk about an opening scene. Eddie and April driving when they come upon a woman, they help her into their car when another car comes speeding up behind them. The woman says he is coming, and she is covered in blood. They make it to the hospital but not before Eddie sees something that scares him so hard that he is not sure if he imagined it. 

From this point on, I needed to know who the woman was and what happened to her. Eddie and April felt the same way. They do their own investigation and learn about the Legend of the Lost Girl and the murders of hitchhikers. Eddie and April are just a normal couple that honestly, if it was not for this mystery that they found themselves in, they kind of would have been forgettable. Two other people that deserve mention are tough around the edges, Rose and Detective Quentin.

Rose grew on me and as far as Detective Quentin goes, I thought he was just being annoying but once I learned what he was really about, I liked him a lot. 

As soon as I saw this book available to read as an early copy, I had to request it. I was lucky enough to be approved for an early copy. Once I started this book, I literally could not stop reading it. Honestly, I was so drawn into this story, that I never put down my phone as I could not stop reading. Fans of this author will definitely want to snag this book up when it releases. It is already a favorite of mine for 2024! Murder Road by Simone St. James will have you thinking twice about picking up hitchhikers!