Don't Turn Around
Books | Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
3.4
Jessica Barry
A New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year"Barry's adrenaline-fueled adventure explores the Me Too movement, cancel culture, reproductive rights and white male extremism. Buckle up for a heart-stopping ride."--People Magazine The riveting follow up to Jessica Barry's debut Freefall--a controversial, of-the-moment thriller about two women fighting for their right to live. 322 miles of road. 6 hours. 2 strangers. 1 killer. Too many secrets.Midnight. Cait Monaghan and Rebecca McRae are on a desolate road that slices through the New Mexican desert. They've never met before tonight. Both have secrets to protect. Both of their lives are in danger. When a truck pulls up fast behind them, they assume it's punk teenagers or run-of-the-mill road rage, but it soon becomes clear that whoever is driving the truck is hunting them for sport--and they are out to draw blood. As the miles unspool and the dangers mount, the pasts they've worked so hard to keep buried have come back to haunt them. Someone wants one of them dead. But which one? And given the lives the two women have been leading, that someone could be almost anyone.If Cait and Rebecca are going to survive, they'll have to learn to trust one another--and themselves. But trust is a costly business, and they've both paid the price before. . . .
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Author
Jessica Barry
Pages
320
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Published Date
2020
ISBN
0062874861 9780062874863
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"Jessica Barry writes the kind of novel that causes me to show up bitchy and bleary-eyed at work from compulsively turning the pages of her work the night before. That was the case with her thriller Freefall — then again a week later with her follow-up Don’t Turn Around, which I devoured in a single night. DTA has a particularly salient storyline in this post-Roe vs. Wade era; both books are adrenaline-fueled tales of women living on the edge and outside the margins, foraging their own paths for survival."
"I found this novel in the YA section of Book Outlet.. Imagine my surprise to find out that it’s not a YA novel at all, and that the main characters are 25 & 35? Right off the bat I was annoyed, but that’s certainly not the fault of the author, and I did still end up enjoying the story. I really loved the bond that Cait & Rebecca formed throughout the story, the sort of friendship that lasts for life."
"3.5"
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