Gabe is sitting in traffic on his way home from work. He’s reading the bumper stickers on the car in front of him, when a young girl pops up in the rear window. Gabe is almost positive it’s his daughter, Izzy, but why would she be in that car. When she mouths “daddy” at him, he knows it’s her. He watches her disappear, and no one believes that it was her. They believe she died in a robbery where his wife was murdered as well.

Three years later, Gabe still has not given up hope. He has given up everything else, including his home and his job, to hunt for the car with the bumper stickers that Izzy disappeared in. He lives in a camper van stopping at service stations along the highway to get coffee and a couple of hours of sleep. Katie works at one of these service stations and sees Gabe when he stops for coffee. She feels sympathy for him because she too lost a loved one, her father, years ago which tore her family apart. Fran and her daughter, Alice also spend a lot of their time on this highway running from people who want to hurt them. They want to hurt them because Fran knows what happened to Gabe’s daughter, but she also knows what The Other People will do if the truth gets out.

Wow! What a wild and thrilling ride The Other People by C.J. Tudor was. The author did a great job of keeping us on our toes throughout the entire story. I couldn’t predict anything that was going to happen, and honestly I didn’t want to. I just wanted to be on this journey and to see what would happen next. There were times I wasn’t sure who each character actually was, but the way that Tudor puts it all together in the end made so much sense. This was a fantastic read, and I really hope they make a movie out of it. There is a bit of a paranormal aspect to this book that I did not think was necessary to the plot which is why I gave 4 out of 5 stars, but it’s definitely worth reading.

Thank you NetGalley and Ballantine Books for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.