Don't Turn Around

By Jessica Barry,

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An addictive, fast-paced thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Perfect for fans of LISA GARDNER and CLARE MACKINTOSH.

'A novel like razor-wire' AJ Finn, author of #1 bestseller The Woman in the Window
'A nerve-shredding book' Rosamund Lupton, bestselling author of Three Hours

Two strangers,…

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I have never been as scared reading a book—that includes Stephen King’s whole oeuvre, and I am a huge SK fan—as I was this one. Barry conjures up a scene almost any woman will find familiar—you’re driving down a long, dark, lonely road, and then it gets even worse because you’re not alone anymore.

That Barry manages to create masterful suspense against a political backdrop that is even more relevant now than when the book was published is particularly dazzling. And the triumphant battle to the death at the end had my heart in my throat and my blood pulsing. 

From Jenny's list on women who kill seriously bad guys.

This is the second-scariest book I have read in a while (and the first-scariest doesn’t belong on this list as the female lead can’t exactly be said to triumph; she is dead for the whole thing). In this story, Cait Monaghan is in charge of squiring women safely to an abortion clinic, driving under cover of night through the darkness to avoid detection by abusive biological fathers, red state protestors—and one unseen, shadowy threat. The novel proceeds in a cat-chases-mouse-mouse-turns-on-cat series of twists and turns through the wilderness of an endless Texas highway, taking places as seemingly banal as a…

From Jenny's list on thrillers where women win.

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