(I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.)

Journalist Miranda Jack is finally attempting to move on from the death of her husband by relocating up the coast with her young daughter, Zoe. Then a single event changes everything.
On a Monday afternoon as she waits at traffic lights, a stranger jumps into her car and points a gun at her chest. Forced to drive at high speed up the motorway, Miranda listens to the frantic, paranoid rants of Brendan Walsh, a man who claims he's being chased and that they're both now running for their lives. Two hours later her ordeal is over in the most shocking fashion. Miranda is safe but she can't simply walk away - not without knowing the truth about that terrifying drive.
As a journalist Miranda has always asked questions. But this time the questions are dangerous - and the answers might get her killed...

If there is one thing I have learned from reading Jaye Ford novels, it is this: she writes one heck of a good female protagonist! And they aren't high-flying lawyers or highly decorated police officers - they are regular, everyday women who have been put into extraordinary situations...and that is just so refreshing in modern crime fiction.

In this story, journalist Miranda is car-jacked by the paranoid Brendan Walsh - and so begins the most traumatic two hours of her life. Once the ride is over (in a fantastic scene), Miranda wants to know more about this guy who changed her life forever: who is he? Why did this happen to her? As a journalist, the questions were always going to nag at her conscience. So she decides to dig a little deeper...and that just opens up a whole new can of thrilling worms.

While there is a lot of other stuff going on in this novel (loss of a husband, grief, health issues, PTSD etc), it really is when Jax starts investigating the car-jacking that the tension really takes hold and really grips the reader. Sound finale really made this the ideal thriller.


Paul
ARH