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Title details for Blood Highway by Gina Wohlsdorf - Available

Blood Highway

A Novel

by Gina Wohlsdorf
Amy McFadden
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Rainy Cain, a tough, troubled high school senior, desperately wants to escape the confines of her life in Minneapolis. When her increasingly unstable mother suddenly commits suicide, Rainy thinks she has found her chance. Instead, her father, Sam-who she had always believed died before she was born-escapes from prison and abducts her, taking her on a cross-country trek in pursuit of millions of dollars that he believes her mother had kept from a botched robbery years earlier. On their heels the whole way is a young Minneapolis detective intent on bringing Rainy safely home. It is an odyssey that will test Rainy's considerable instincts about sanity and madness, and keep listeners captivated till the twisty end. Gina Wohlsdorf, whose previous novel, Security, was described by the New York Journal of Books as "a fast-paced, highly evolved thriller that clearly marks Wohlsdorf as a force to be reckoned with," delivers on that promise in Blood Highway, a tautly paced, unsettling, and ultimately moving coming-of-age story.

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  • Release date

    August 7, 2018

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      • ISBN: 9781684416516
      • File size: 232389 KB
      • Duration: 08:04:08

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from June 25, 2018
      Wohlsdorf follows her debut, 2016’s Security, with a powerful thriller that focuses on the travails of Rainy Katherine Cain, a preternaturally smart 17-year-old who lives in Minneapolis with her insane mother, a cancer nurse. Mom literally refuses to admit Rainy exists, so she has had to become quite adept at foraging for herself. One day, Rainy comes home from school to discover Mom has committed suicide. Soon afterward, she’s kidnaped by Sam, her supposedly dead father, who has escaped from prison so he can grab her and the $3 million he believes her mother hid away from a robbery. They embark on a horrific odyssey that eventually takes them to the woods in Northern California. A sadistic psychopath, Sam alternates between crooning to his “Kat” that he just wants to take care of her, and robbing and murdering people they run across. Sergeant Blaine, a Minneapolis police detective, follows as best he can, but things keep getting worse. This intense story can be painful to read, but it’s more than worth the ride. Five-city author tour. Agent: Emma Sweeney, Emma Sweeney Agency.

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