River Road: A Novel

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Synopsis

From the award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages comes a “gripping read with emotion-charged twists and turns” (Tess Gerritsen) about a professor accused of killing her student in a hit-and-run accident.

Nan Lewis—a creative writing professor at a university in upstate New York—is driving home from a faculty holiday party when she hits a deer. Yet when she gets out of her car to look for it, the deer is gone. Eager to get home before 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…

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 her daughter’s death, Nan suspects that the two accidents are connected.

As she digs further, she discovers that everyone around her, including Leia, has been hiding secrets. But can she uncover them, clear her name, and figure out who really killed Leia before her life is destroyed for ever?

Chapters

  • RiverRoad 01 Open

    Duration: 31s
  • RiverRoad 02 Ch1

    Duration: 27min
  • RiverRoad 03 Ch2

    Duration: 12min
  • RiverRoad 04 Ch3

    Duration: 16min
  • RiverRoad 05 Ch4

    Duration: 16min
  • RiverRoad 06 Ch5

    Duration: 22min
  • RiverRoad 07 Ch6

    Duration: 21min
  • RiverRoad 08 Ch7

    Duration: 17min
  • RiverRoad 09 Ch8

    Duration: 19min
  • RiverRoad 10 Ch9

    Duration: 18min
  • RiverRoad 11 Ch10

    Duration: 26min
  • RiverRoad 12 Ch11

    Duration: 20min
  • RiverRoad 13 Ch12

    Duration: 25min
  • RiverRoad 14 Ch13

    Duration: 23min
  • RiverRoad 15 Ch14

    Duration: 24min
  • RiverRoad 16 Ch15

    Duration: 20min
  • RiverRoad 17 Ch16

    Duration: 16min
  • RiverRoad 18 Ch17

    Duration: 16min
  • RiverRoad 19 Ch18

    Duration: 19min
  • RiverRoad 20 Ch19

    Duration: 18min
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