River Road (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501109904)

From the award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a professor accused of killing her favorite student in a hit-and-run accident.

Nan Lewis--a creative writing professor at a state university in upstate New York--is driving home from a faculty holiday party after finding out she's been denied tenure. On her way, she hits a deer, but when she gets out of her car to look for it, the deer is nowhere to be found. Eager to get home and out of the oncoming snowstorm, Nan is forced to leave her car at the bottom of her snowy driveway to wait out the longest night of the year--and the lowest point of her life...

The next morning, Nan is woken up by a police officer at her door with terrible news--one of her students, Leia Dawson, was killed in a hit-and-run on River Road the night before. And because of the damage to her car, Nan is a suspect. In the days following the accident, Nan finds herself shunned by the same community that rallied around her when her own daughter was killed in an eerily similar accident six years prior. When Nan begins finding disturbing tokens that recall the death of Nan's own daughter, Nan suspects that the two accidents are connected.

As she begins to dig further, she discovers that everyone around her, including Leia, is hiding secrets. But can she uncover them, clear her name, and figure out who really killed Leia before her reputation is destroyed for good?

Author: Carol Goodman
ISBN-10: 1501109901
ISBN-13: 9781501109904
Publisher: Gallery Books
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2016
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2015 pg. 56
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2015
Booklist 11/01/2015 pg. 33
Romantic Times 01/01/2016 pg. 56 - Excellent
Publishers Weekly 11/23/2015
Library Journal 01/01/2016 pg. 95
Library Journal 08/01/2015