Killer on the Road by Stephen Graham Jones, 248 pages
From the MARC: "Sixteen-year-old Harper has decided to run away from home after she has another blow-out argument with her mother. However, her two best friends, little sister, and ex-boyfriend all stop her from hitchhiking her way up Route 80 in Wyoming by joining her on an intervention disguised as a road trip. What they don't realize is that Harper has been marked by a very unique serial killer who's been trolling the highway for the past three years, and now the killer is after all of them in this fast-paced and deadly chase novel that will have your heart racing well above the speed limit as the interstate becomes a graveyard."
One of the things I love about Jones' work is how uncomfortable it makes me. He dances on the knife edge of too much all the while making everything seem ridiculously, unflinchingly real, even things that should be impossible. Killer on the Road had moments so brutal I had to put the book down before I could continue. The ending of this story is horrific but satisfying.
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