Have you ever driven by a stranded automobile and wish you’d stopped to help? Read Strangers in the Car by C.M. Ewan. It will remove all guilt.
It’s almost 11:00 on a Saturday morning. A nervous Smantha Clark and her husband Paul have bundled baby Lila up, ready to hit the road. CLICK HERE FOR AMAZON PAGE
Late that same night, Abi and her boyfriend Ben are driving through darkness and fog. They are on the brink of another argument. The road is rough, and it’s so hard to see, that they have missed their turn.
They almost collide with a man on the road, and see a vehicle that has clearly broken down. They stop to assess the situation. Recognizing the bad weather and the deserted area, they end up reluctantly offering a ride to two seemingly ordinary strangers and their baby who seem harmless enough.
The encounter begins awkwardly at best and deteriorates from there. A shocking incident during an innocent stop for gas changes the mutual wariness to outright fear.
Who are these people and what is going on? Paul and Samantha’s dark secret makes them hair-trigger dangerous; more so than the good samaritans could ever imagine.
Following two timelines; those of Samantha and Paul’s backstory, as well as what happens within Abi’s old Volkswagen, Strangers in the Car captures and draws the reader in immediately. Tension builds as new information is revealed and the chilling reality unfolds. The plot is on the edge of your seat exciting, and impossible to predict. You wonder how the nightmare will end.
C.M. Ewan does an excellent job of setting the stage, describing how people become unhinged, while taking us on an engrossing thrill ride of events and emotions that we experience along with the players.
With well written layers, Strangers in the Car is exciting, scary and utterly unpredictable. One of the best of my recent reads, it is highly recommended.
Once you’ve finished this book by C.M. Ewan, if you ever stop to help strangers on a deserted road, you clearly haven’t been paying attention.
Strangers in the Car
C.M. Ewan
Grand Central Publishing 2025
432 pages
J Curran