The Highway

This novel by C.J. Box never got off the ground for me, even though friends and critical reviews have Open Season and Blue Heaven). I read 80+ page and then the final chapter (something I only do if I feel like I might not continue reading the book) and I stopped reading. Not only was it clear that very bad things were going to happen to women at the hands of a psychopathic long-haul truck driver, but he gets away with it in the end. I did not meet any characters in the first 80+ pages that I liked or even remotely identified with. That being said, I will go back and try a couple of the award winning books to see if these change my mind about this author.

been favorable and he has won several prestigious mystery awards for other novels (e.g.,