The Shimmering Road
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
A woman is driving through the desert wasteland. Ahead of her, the road shimmers in the heat.
She is running from a dream that is so terrifyingly real that it haunts her waking hours.
The pop of a bullet, the rush of blood through water ... Is her vision a premonition, a message that she and her daughter are in danger?
Then Charlie learns that the mother she never knew has been murdered in Arizona.
Soon she must confront her past, and untangle a web of secrets that will reveal the truths of her own nightmare…
Praise for Hester Young
‘A lyrical, haunting, heart-wrenching work of suspense with echoes of du Maurier, Hitchcock, and King.’ - Robert B. Parker, New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wins.
‘Powerful and Haunting’ - David Bell, author of Cemetary Girl and Somebody I Used to Know.
'Hair-raising and heart-rending’ - Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Thriller Award finalist Young's whip-smart, adrenaline-fueled second Charlotte "Charlie" Cates novel (after 2015's The Gates of Evangeline) finds the pregnant journalist and her boyfriend, Noah Palmer, in Tucson, Ariz., attempting to adopt Charlie's six-year-old niece, Michaela, after the double homicide of Charlie's estranged mother, Donna DeRossi, and Charlie's half-sister, Jasmine Cassell. The police believe that the crime was drug related, but those closest to the victims insist otherwise. Charlie launches an investigation that lands her and Noah in a tangled web of sex, lies, and international political corruption. Meanwhile, Charlie, who has a history of psychic dreams, is plagued by nightmares that predict her own violent death. Young deftly uses Charlie's supernatural gift to create tension and dread without relying too heavily on it to advance the plot. And a story line involving Donna's employer a nonprofit that helps women living in Mexican border towns both champions charity and gives poverty a human face.
