The Hitchhikers
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Publisher Description
The open road beckons.
A chance for them to reconnect.
Then they make a fatal mistake.
It’s the summer of 1976 and Alice and Tom set out on the remote Canadian highways in their new RV, hoping to heal their broken hearts after a devastating tragedy.
They’ve planned the trip perfectly, taken care of every detail. Then they meet two young hitchhikers down on their luck and offer them a ride. But Simon and Jenny aren’t what they seem. They’ve left a trail of blood, destruction, and madness behind them.
Now Alice and Tom are trapped, prisoners in a deadly game, with nowhere to turn. As the tension builds, the lines blur, and the question becomes, In whose heart does evil truly lie? What secrets are Jenny and Simon hiding? And who will live another day?
A chilling, twist-laden ride till the very end, THE HITCHHIKERS is that rare novel that will break your heart as well as hold you in suspense. The author of the classic thrillers STILL MISSING and THOSE GIRLS has delivered her next breathtaking novel.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A disparate pair of couples plays out a deadly road trip game in Chevy Stevens’ pulse-pounding thriller. Looking for a fresh start after a period of personal strife, Tom and Alice hit the Canadian highways in their RV. Their fateful decision to offer a ride to young drifters Simon and Jenny unexpectedly kicks off a hellish fight to survive the encounter. Setting the action in the summer of 1976 adds a low-tech twist, while Stevens parlays the close quarters of the road into an ingenious turn on the conventional Stockholm syndrome. The bonding between Alice and her much younger captor unearths backstories for both women that are heartbreaking for radically different reasons. Meanwhile, periodic bursts of unsparing violence make the stakes remain high until the startling end. Narrated by Lindsey Dorcus and Moniqua Plante, The Hitchhikers gives equal weight to physical and psychological pain and supplies retro thrills layered with emotional heft.
