Wracked with guilt and self-loathing, Charlie resolves to leave in the middle of the semester, and finds a ride home to Ohio with Josh Baxter, a janitor employed by Olyphant driving to the state to tend to his ill father. She was stabbed multiple times and one of her teeth was removed, the hallmark of a two-time murderer dubbed the Campus Killer. A day after Charlie let Maddy walk back from a bar to their dorm on her own after an argument, Maddy's corpse was found. Charlie Jordan blames herself for the death of Maddy, her best friend and roommate at New Jersey's Olyphant University.
#Survive the night book serial
Thriller Award finalist Sager (Home Before Dark) elevates a standard suspense trope a young woman trapped in a car with a stranger she fears is a serial killer in this stellar nail-biter set in 1991. Trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse played out on pitch-black roads and in neon-lit parking lots, Charlie knows the only way to win is to survive the night. One thing is certain-Charlie has nowhere to run and no way to call for help. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie’s jittery mistrust merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination? As they travel an empty, twisty highway in the dead of night, an increasingly anxious Charlie begins to think she’s sharing a car with the Campus Killer. The longer she sits in the passenger seat, the more Charlie notices there’s something suspicious about Josh, from the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn’t want her to see inside the trunk.
For Josh, it’s to help care for his sick father-or so he says. For Charlie, it’s guilt and grief over the shocking murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away.
They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer.
#Survive the night book skin
One of New York Times Book Review's "summer reads guaranteed to make your heart thump and your skin crawl" An Amazon Best of the Month Pick Named a must-read summer book by The Washington Post, USA Today, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Forbes, Entertainment Weekly, CNN, New York Post, Good Housekeeping, E!, PopSugar, CrimeReads, Thrillist, and BookRiot.
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