From the New York Times best-selling coauthor of It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale comes a fast-paced thriller about a truck driver searching across America for the wife she had long assumed to be dead, performed by the voice of the Alice Isn’t Dead podcast, Jasika Nicole, with an exclusive essay written and read by Joseph Fink.
""This isn’t a story. It's a road trip.""
Keisha Taylor lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day that Alice disappeared. After months of searching, presuming she was dead, Keisha held a funeral, mourned, and gradually tried to get on with her life. But that was before Keisha started to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America. Alice isn't dead, and she is showing up at every major tragedy and accident in the country.
Following a line of clues, Keisha takes a job as a long-haul truck driver and begins searching for Alice. In pursuit of her missing wife, she will stumble on a forgotten American history of secret deals and buried crimes, an inhuman serial killer who has picked her as his next target, and an otherworldly conflict being waged in the quiet corners of our nation’s highway system--uncovering a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman.
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“Throughout, Jasika Nicole’s narration is effectively subtle…Fans of horror will appreciate the simplicity of the story’s premise and the skill with which the suspense builds. Nicole’s performance is tense, even chilling when appropriate—but with an underlying suggestion of hope. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
“There are too few of these sorts of novels in the world…Fans of black and white good-versus-evil tropes, road trip stories, and slow burn horror will delight in Alice Isn’t Dead.”
— New York Journal of Books“The impermanence of setting and Keisha’s vulnerability while sleeping in her truck, stopping in unfamiliar locations, ratchets up the tension.”
— Shelf Awareness“This spooky third novel…offers a more threatening but equally personal take on the horror genre…A terrifying new storytelling experience that affirms, even in our darkest moments, that love conquers all.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Thrilling…Fans of eerie suspense will find much to like.”
— Publishers WeeklyJoseph Fink created and cowrites the Welcome to Night Vale podcast and touring live show. In his mid-twenties he started Commonplace Books, a very small publishing company, producing two collections of short works which he edited and laid out at his office job when his boss wasn’t looking.