Dark Roads
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"Chevy Stevens is back and better than ever...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."--New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica
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...Show more
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Author Chevy Stevens says that as a general rule, she tries not to be influenced by actual events, preferring to craft stories from her own imagination. But Dark Roads is an exception and proved to be the most difficult book for her to write thus far. The story was inspired by a series of crimes Stevens found so "disturbing" that the events lingered in her mind for years. Situated in Northern British Columbia, the Highway of Tears is where "women...read more
Some sections were a bit dragged out, but this book was overall a great read. I loved that I was actually wrong about some of my assumptions and there were some twists I didn’t expect. This book definitely has some dark moments. Though labelled as fiction, this book takes inspiration from a very real issue. I believe it’s important for everyone to know about the “Highway of Tears” and this book makes you aware of the events that have been occurri...read more
Not a bad psychological thriller. I liked experiencing the wilderness through Hailey’s perspective. There was a nice twist towards the end, but a little tame for my taste. I understand the author was influenced by the Highway of Tears in Northern British Columbia, but it kind of seems like a missed opportunity to tell the story of the Indigenous woman who’ve experienced higher rates of violence and homicide. The fact that the fictional white wome...read more
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