He Started It by Samantha Downing is a twisted tale of
siblings fulfilling a road trip mission as a qualification for inheriting their
grandfather’s fortune. Grandfather once
took the three – Beth, Portia, and Eddie – on this road trip years ago when
they were children. His will mandates that they must take the trip again to
fulfill his final wish of scattering his ashes on the West Coast.
Their journey starts in Alabama with a rented car. Beth’s husband Felix and Eddie’s wife Krista have joined the excursion as they navigate through state after state going to all the sites -- mostly bizarre -- they saw as children. They stay in cheap hotels and eat diner food. It doesn’t take long for nerves to fray with this much togetherness.
Along the way they are being followed by people in a
black truck who they believe are doing menacing things like putting nails in
their tires and stealing the starter relay. All bets are off when Grandfather’s
ashes go missing! There are lots of secrets in this road trip tale including a
missing sibling who accompanied them on the original journey and a killer among
them.
This is my first Samantha Downing book but then she’s
only written two so far. Her debut novel My Lovely Wife was nominated for an
Edgar award and is being considered for a feature film with Amazon Studios and
Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films. She is a writer with no formal training who
lives in New Orleans.
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