Headlights

 

🎧 Pub Day Book Review 🎧

A single human hair tied around the tongue. That image alone tells you Headlights by C.J. Leede is not playing around.

Danny Stansfield is one day from leaving the FBI when his old boss in Denver calls with the three words he never wanted to hear: it's happening again. Years back, Danny worked a string of murders he could never crack, where the killers turned up dazed and wandering, wearing the skin of their victims and a single human hair tied around their tongue, with no memory of any of it. That case cost him his marriage and chased him out of Colorado. Now the bodies are back, and so is he, partnered with his ex-wife's new boyfriend and pulled straight into his own past.

There's something different about Danny. He's seen shadows since he was a kid. There’s a pull he gets when something bad is coming. He also watched his father kill his mother, and that history starts bleeding into the case in ways he can't explain.

This is a horror novel, a police procedural, and a supernatural mystery all running at the same time, and Leede ties every thread together without dropping one. Sharp writing, never a slow patch, atmospheric all the way through. Andrew Eiden narrates, and he's carrying a huge cast plus a mountain of tension and emotion. He absolutely delivers.

This is my first CJ Leede book and I have no notes. It’s shocking, dark, and so well put together.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thank you Macmillan Audio for the gifted early listen. Out today!

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About the Author

CJ Leede is a bestselling horror writer, hiker, and Trekkie. She is the author of Maeve Fly, American Rapture, and Headlights. Her debut novel Maeve Fly won the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award and Splatterpunk Award, and earned a Bram Stoker Award nomination. 

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