Dark Roads
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4.4 • 45 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
“Chevy Stevens is a brilliant and unique talent and Dark Roads is an instant classic. My hat’s off to her.” — C. J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Long Range
"Dark Roads is an entertaining thriller whether you read it or listen to it!" - Toronto.com
The Cold Creek Highway stretches close to five hundred miles through British Columbia’s rugged wilderness to the west coast. Isolated and vast, it has become a prime hunting ground for predators. For decades, young women traveling the road have gone missing. Motorists and hitchhikers, those passing through or living in one of the small towns scattered along the region, have fallen prey time and again. And no killer or abductor who has stalked the highway has ever been brought to justice.
Hailey McBride calls Cold Creek home. Her father taught her to respect nature, how to live and survive off the land, and to never travel the highway alone. Now he’s gone, leaving her a teenage orphan in the care of her aunt whose police officer husband uses his badge as a means to bully and control Hailey. Overwhelmed by grief and forbidden to work, socialize, or date, Hailey vanishes into the mountainous terrain, hoping everyone will believe she’s left town. Rumors spread that she was taken by the highway killer—who’s claimed another victim over the summer.
One year later, Beth Chevalier arrives in Cold Creek, where her sister Amber lived—and where she was murdered. Estranged from her parents and seeking closure, Beth takes a waitressing job at the local diner, just as Amber did, desperate to understand what happened to her and why. But Beth’s search for answers puts a target on her back—and threatens to reveal the truth behind Hailey’s disappearance…
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press
"Dark Roads is a chilling, pulse-pounding thriller that also tugs at the heartstrings. It's everything you've come to love from a master of the psych thriller genre!" -- Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs.
"My favorite Chevy Stevens book since Still Missing. Stevens reliably creates complex, resilient female characters, and Hailey and Beth - whose lives collide in Dark Roads - are utterly compelling. The suspense builds with every page, and the ending is a complete shocker." -- Sarah Pekkanen, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Wife Between Us
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
It’s a good idea to stay off Cold Creek Highway: Too many women go missing there. Author Chevy Stevens based this harrowing thriller on northern British Columbia’s infamous Highway of Tears, where a shocking number of Indigenous girls and women have disappeared. The novel tracks the story of teenager Hailey McBride, who faced way too much tragedy in her hometown of Cold Creek, BC, before she escaped into the nearby mountains—a little while before another local girl, Amber Chevalier, was murdered. A year later, Amber’s sister Beth shows up in Cold Creek to find answers, which immediately puts a target on her back. Stevens is a master of suspense, creating danger and tension on every page. Can anyone be trusted? (Other than Hailey’s wonderfully protective dog, Wolf, that is!) Three narrators—including one of our favorites, thriller vet Brittany Pressley—tell the story from the perspectives of Hailey, Amber, and Beth, and they make it sound like you’re listening to a foreboding horror movie. Brave souls who love dark thrillers will devour Dark Roads. Maybe don’t listen just before bed.
Customer Reviews
Good book.
I enjoyed the book.
5/5
Loved this book, is full of twists and turns! I could not
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Dark Roads
I’ve been waiting a very long time for a new novel from Chevy Stevens. Dark Roads was truly worth the wait for me. I enjoyed all her other novels. Ms Stevens is the only author I look for all new information about an upcoming novel.
Dark Roads will not disappoint