Hokuloa Road
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Kaleo Griffith
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Elizabeth Hand
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A young man is drawn into the dark side of paradise in this haunting and "perfectly crafted" mystery (Grady Hendrix), about the eerie secrets of one Hawai’ian island—and the lengths some will go to keep them.
On a whim, Grady Kendall applies to work as a live-in caretaker for a luxury property in Hawaiʻi, as far from his small-town Maine life as he can imagine. Within days he's flying out to an estate on remote Hokuloa Road, where he quickly uncovers a dark side to the island’s idyllic reputation: it has long been a place where people vanish without a trace.
When a young woman from his flight becomes the next to disappear, Grady is determined—and soon desperate—to figure out what's happened to Jessie, and to all those staring out of the island’s “missing" posters. But working with Raina, Jessie’s fiercely protective best friend, to uncover the truth is anything but easy, and with an inexplicable and sinister presence stalking his every step, Grady can only hope he'll find the answer before it's too late.
Perfect for fans of Peter Heller and The White Lotus, and from award-winning writer Elizabeth Hand, a master of crime fiction known for her magnetic characters, seductive prose, and fearless excavations into the darkest corners of our world, comes a chilling and illuminating new novel about a place unlike any other—and the deadly cost of keeping it so.
"Set in a Hawaii so vividly imagined I'm still shaking sand out of my shoes."—Grady Hendrix
“Twisty and dark . . . easily one of the best thrillers I've read.” —Rachel Hawkins
“This is the perfect book for your summer beach bag—an evocative mystery set in a tropical island paradise . . . I was completely enthralled!” —Jason Rekulak
©2022 Elizabeth Hand (P)2022 Mulholland BooksCritic reviews
—Jason Rekulak, author of Hidden Pictures
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- Nigel Quinlan
- 19-08-22
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An unexpectedly enjoyable part of this hugely enjoyable supernatural mystery is its setting during the covid lockdown, something that will, I suspect, culturally appear across various artworks from that particular time in a way a forest fire can be detected in tree rings. The loneliness and desolation of lockdown, the practical difficulties and imposition of quarantine are all seamlessly part of life in this book as a young carpenter travels to a remote Hawiaiian island to work as caretaker for a billionaire. Mask etiquette is followed, spacing and eating outdoors, while the island's entire tourist industry has shut down, Text messages and chats rather movingly keep scattered family and friends in touch. It probably helps that Hand has written science fiction fantasy and horror to acquire the sorts of skills to write a pandemic-as-everyday-background novel, though maybe any writer could do it this well if they're good enough, and Hand is that good. Other timely themes are preserving the last shreds of an already-damaged natural environment and the strange, almost alien designs of the incredibly rich. It's a riveting thriller, with wonderful wrting about the flora and fauna and sights of Hawaii and some deeply lovable characters, as well as a chilly atmosphere of fear and slowly mounting worldly and otherworldly suspense. Narration is superb
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