Murder Road by Simone St. James #bookreview #horror #mystery #paranormal #suspense #thriller

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Title: Murder Road

Author:  Simone St. James

Publisher: Berkley

Publication Date: March 5, 2024

Page Count:  350

My rating: 4 stars

About the book:

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.

Murder Road by Simone St. James is a paranormal thriller novel with a decades old mystery at the heart of the story. The story is a nostalgic one being set almost thirty years ago in the year 1995 before the explosion of cell phones and social media giving it an even more ominous feel if possible.

April and Eddie have taken the plunge and gotten married and are heading to a small resort town in Michigan for their honeymoon when the find they’ve taken a wrong turn. Heading down a dark and deserted road they spot a hitchhiker in need of assistance and stop to help but before they know it April and Eddie find that the hitchhiker is bleeding and they are being chased by a strange truck.

As quickly as possible to get away from the dangerous truck and try to get help for the young woman April and Eddie head to the nearest town and hopefully to a hospital for help. April and Eddie soon find their good deed has gotten them into more trouble than just getting lost though when they are caught in the crosshairs of the Coldlake Falls police investigation after the young girl dies at the hospital.

Murder Road is not the first book I’ve read by author Simone St. James and it certainly won’t be the last with finding yet another winner with this latest read. The author is know for her creepy supernatural thrillers that slide into horror territory and I’m all for the mash up of genres that I found in Murder Road. The remote setting and eerie investigating had me hooked from the very start and again I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough to see how it would all unfold. Definitely a book and an author I recommend and will look forward to reading again and again myself.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

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About the author:

Simone St. James is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel and The Broken Girls. 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.