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  • Published: 15 August 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784750305
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $32.99

The Shimmering Road



For fans of Tana French and Gillian Flynn, this is the second book in the addictive Charlie Cates series, that will have you guessing until the very end.

A woman is driving through the desert wasteland. Ahead of her, the road shimmers in the heat.


She is running from a dream that is so terrifyingly real that it haunts her waking hours.

The pop of a bullet, the rush of blood through water ... Is her vision a premonition, a message that she and her daughter are in danger?


Then Charlie learns that the mother she never knew has been murdered in Arizona.

Soon she must confront her past, and untangle a web of secrets that will reveal the truths of her own nightmare…


Praise for Hester Young

‘A lyrical, haunting, heart-wrenching work of suspense with echoes of du Maurier, Hitchcock, and King.’ - Robert B. Parker, New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wins.

‘Powerful and Haunting’ - David Bell, author of Cemetary Girl and Somebody I Used to Know.
'Hair-raising and heart-rending’ - Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet.

  • Published: 15 August 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784750305
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Hester Young

Hester Young holds a Master’s degree in English with a Creative Writing concentration from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Before turning to writing full time, she worked as a teacher in Arizona and New Hampshire. She lives with her husband and two children in New Jersey.

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Praise for The Shimmering Road

Thoroughly enjoyable

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