Full disclosure: Freida McFadden has become one of my favorite secular suspense-thriller authors. She never fails to entertain, and she writes in a straightforward way that makes you feel the characters are talking to you.
With her new suspense thriller, The Crash, she’s done it again. Tegan is a single woman in her eighth month of pregnancy, who makes an ill-advised decision to leave town to visit her brother, Dennis. After surviving a snowy crash, she’s rescued by a couple who live off the grid. Tegan assumes she’s been rescued, but could she be wrong? Could she be imprisoned? And, even worse, with a severe injury? The protagonist, Tegan, and the cast of characters–Dennis, her friend Jackson, her “rescuers,” Polly and Hank, and a little girl, Sadie– evoke visceral responses to their personalities and motives.
McFadden takes the reader down a road of twists and turns, most of which the reader would be unlikely to see coming. Good luck figuring out who the “bad guys” and the “good guys” are in this page-turner novel.
Sit back and enjoy the ride!