Jayme's Reviews > Murder Road

Simone St. James delivers another solid SUPERNATURAL thriller, which might just raise the hairs on your arms…and it’s NOW AVAILABLE! Happy publication day!!

“If You See Her, You”ll Be The Next One Dead On The Side of the Road”

July 1995:

Eddie and April are newlyweds heading to a cabin for their honeymoon-part of a hotel on the shore of Lake Michigan. They had scrimped and saved and had been able to book five nights, planning to swim, BBQ burgers, drink beer, play scrabble and go to bed. Repeat five times and then head home to Ann Arbor where they would go to work all day, come home at five, have a sandwich together, go to bed, and repeat again, forever and ever, secure in their marital bliss.

But, something along the way, made Eddie take a wrong turn onto Atticus Line, a dark, deserted strip of road that has taken the lives of several hitchhikers over the past nineteen years, the first occurring in 1976.

Then, in the beam of their headlights, they saw a figure walking that appeared to need help, and stopping will change EVERYTHING.

Rhonda Jean isn’t drunk- she is bleeding-and although they rush her to the hospital in ColdLake Falls, when she dies, they somehow become “suspects” instead of the Good Samaritans they are!

Caught up in the mystery, of the original Jane Doe found, dubbed “The Lost Girl”, -they try to clear their names, but when they see her, they have to wonder if she IS just an urban legend ?!

WILL ONE (OR BOTH) BECOME HER NEXT VICTIM?

Fortunately, they will have the help of Rose, the proprietor of the B &B they are placed in by local Police, and Beatrice and Gracie Snell, two resourceful teenaged sisters who are better sleuths than the detectives in charge.

Full of fun 90’s nostalgia, and several eerie, ominous car rides-you will want to scream at Eddie and April whenever they venture back onto Atticus Line.

Just 👀 look at that gorgeous cover of the oncoming headlights on the desolate MURDER ROAD!

Then, as I flipped the pages on my Kindle, there was a dark line beneath each numbered chapter, which seemed to move as you reached the first page of every chapter-reminding me of the rhythmic flash of dashed lines you see dividing two lanes on highway at night as you speed past! Creepy!

If you have enjoyed the author’s work in the past, you don’t want to miss this one!
4.5 ⭐️

Thank You to Berkley for the very early gifted copy provided through NetGalley. It was my pleasure to offer a candid review!