Description: "When Jess and Clare Martin move from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to their former college town in the Hudson River valley, they are hoping for rejuvenation--of their marriage, their savings, and Jess's writing career ... But their new life isn't all quaint town libraries and fragrant apple orchards. There is a haunting pall that hangs over Riven House like a funeral veil. Something is just not right. Soon Clare begins to hear babies crying at night [and] see strange figures in fog at the edge of their property"--Amazon.com.
Brief description:
Carol Goodman's rich and prolific career includes novels such as The Widow's House and The Night Visitor, winners of the 2018 and 2020 Mary Higgins Clark Award. Her books have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in the Hudson Valley, NY.
Review Quotes:
Praise for River Road: "Like Donna Tartt's Secret History or a good film noir...will keep readers hooked." - People
"Add River Road to Carol Goodman's growing resume of frighteningly real suspense novels. Mixing an unreliable narrator with a dead creative writing student and a plethora of suspects in a forbidding setting of snow and ice, Goodman crafts a gripping novel impossible to put down until the shocking reveal on its final pages." - Robert Dugoni, author of My Sister's Grave
"Carol Goodman is, simply put, a stellar writer." - Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hunter
"Blends a perfect gothic premise...with modern mysterious twists....I couldn't put it down but I didn't want it to end." - Wendy Webb, bestselling and award-winning author of The Vanishing
"Foreboding and moody...As you're pulled deeper into its crumbling corridors and gothic history, you'll never guess where its true threats lie." - Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet and June