River Road: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (803 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00UDCI1V0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 419 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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“A terrific psychological thriller that will keep readers guessing through every twist." (Library Journal (Starred Review))"River Road is a gripping read with emotion-charged twists and turns that you won't see coming. Carol Goodman creates a heroine who'll linger with you long after you close the book." —Tess Gerritsen, author of Playing with Fire"Goodman expertly melds the psychological thriller and academic mystery into a compelling story of revenge and grief. Like drivers on River Road, readers won’t be able to see what’s around the next corner." (The Freelance Star)“With romance folded between sce
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. 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. 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. 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 w
Carol Goodman is the critically acclaimed author of fourteen novels, including The Lake of Dead Languages and The Seduction of Water, which won the 2003 Hammett Prize. . Her books have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her family, and teaches creative
RIVETING READ Laurel-Rain Snow Nan Lewis had just left a holiday party, upset because of the news that another professor, Cressida Janowicz, had told her: that she had been denied tenure. She had had some wine, but only a couple of glasses, she was telling herself as she drove. She was okay. She would make it home safely.She had tried to talk to Ross, the department head, but a student Leia Dawson, had been monopolizing his time.Now, as she drove along the river, and just when she reached a particularly difficult turn, with poor visibility due to the . "Utterly disappointing turn for a favorite author" according to Lisa P. Benwitz. I have loved been a fan of Carol Goodman's books for years, including her YA Blythewood series. Unfortunately, "River Road" was a complete miss for me. I admired the attempt to set the protagonist up as a potentially unreliable narrator, presumably causing readers to wonder if there was so much more to the story than her POV was telling. The problem is, it was crystal-clear from almost the beginning of the book "whodunnit," so the device didn't work. Most of the unwinding of the plot came from Nan following people when s. Great Characters and Very Suspenseful Holly Y Goodman is my favorite author. Hands down, I get lost in her books and find a bizarre happiness in their dark sadness. This book was a bit off for me in the beginningI didn't have the same feelings I did for her previous books. While her other books have sucked me in immediately, this one snuck up on my slowly. It's not my favorite of my favorite's, but it's still a great story. Goodman is so good at writing the story of every single character in her bookseven characters only mentioned two-three times, you get a feel for