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Murder Road is set in the summer of 1995 and is centered around the newlywed couple April and Eddie. While on their way to a small resort town in Michigan to enjoy their honeymoon, the couple finds themselves lost. While traveling down a rural, deserted road named Atticus Lane, the couple spots a young woman hitchhiking. Soon after they pick up the hitchhiker they discover that something is wrong, there is blood pouring from her body and a truck is chasing after them. The couple takes the hitchhiker to a local hospital where she dies soon after being admitted.

While at the hospital, the local police begin to interrogate the couple and put them as prime suspects in the hitchhiker's death, which forces them to stay in the small town. The couple soon learns that this isn’t the first hitchhiker who has been murdered on Atticus Lane. In the past two decades, there have been numerous hitchhikers who have been murdered on that lone deserted road. The couple finds themself trying to not only clear their names but, to also find out what is happening to the hitchhikers on Atticus Lane.

This is my 7th read by St James so it goes without saying that I'm a big fan of her work. One of my favorite things about her books is that you cannot pin them down to one particular genre and this one is no exception. Murder Road has supernatural horror elements, and a thriller twist, but at the heart of the story is a mystery. Full of loveable yet flawed characters with 90s nostalgia, Murder Road is one of those books that's almost impossible to put down.

Simone St James knows how to pen an atmospheric ghost story. Her books always contain ghostly elements and I love what she did in Murder Road. She took it to a whole new level in Murder Road and made the ghostly element truly terrifying (but in the best way)!

Murder Road by Simone St James Will be available on March 5. A massive thanks to Berkley Pub and NetGalley for the gifted copy!!