The Hitchhikers

By Chevy Stevens

Book Overview

Chevy Stevens, the beloved New York Times bestselling author of Still Missing and Those Girls, returns with her most breathtaking thriller yet.

With its relentless pace and unforgettable twists, The Hitchhikers delivers what bestselling author Karin Slaughter calls "a frightening and viscerally chilling road-trip-gone-wrong story."

Desperation is a dark road...

It's the summer of 1976. Alice and Tom set out on the remote Canadian highways in their new RV, hoping to heal after a devastating tragedy.

They've planned the trip perfectly, every detail accounted for. Then they meet two young hitchhikers and offer them a ride. But Simon and Jenny aren't what they seem. They've left a trail of blood, destruction, and madness behind them.

Now Alice and Tom are prisoners in a deadly game with nowhere to turn. As the tension builds, the lines blur, and the question becomes:

In whose heart does evil truly lie? What secrets are Jenny and Simon hiding? And who will live another day?

A chilling, twist-laden ride to the final page, The Hitchhikers is that rare novel that will break your heart as it holds you in suspense.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250133653
• ISBN13: 9781250133656
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Scary and Stressful!

Well, that is a vacation that you will remember forever! A really great audiobook but also so very stressful because it is easy to put yourself into the shoes of Alice and Tom, really nice people working to heal from the trauma of losing a baby, who meet "Ocean and Blue", offer them a place to stay for the night and then find themselves in a waking nightmare. It is amazing how you don't need anything supernatural to add to the terror when humans can do all that just fine on their own. Though it is complicated by the fact that humans also might have reasons (good ones) that just rolled out of control. Makes it harder to just label someone as a monster when they were hurt themselves by others. So, yeah, this is a thrilling scary road trip across beautiful Canada in a time before the connectivity of cellphones and I was certainly hooked the whole time and stressed out too! I am glad I got the chance to listen to this audiobook. The narrators, Lindsey Dorcus and Moniqua Plante did a wonderful job in bringing Alice and Jenny to life and the horror story of hitchhiking, a flight to escape, and so many dead bodies!