Hokuloa Road, Elizabeth Hand
Hokuloa Road, Elizabeth Hand
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Hokuloa Road
A Novel

Author: Elizabeth Hand

Narrator: Kaleo Griffith

Unabridged: 12 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/19/2022

Synopsis

A young man is drawn into the dark side of paradise in this haunting and "perfectly crafted" mystery (Grady Hendrix), about the eerie secrets of one Hawai’ian island—and the lengths some will go to keep them. On a whim, Grady Kendall applies to work as a live-in caretaker for a luxury property in Hawaiʻi, as far from his small-town Maine life as he can imagine. Within days he's flying out to an estate on remote Hokuloa Road, where he quickly uncovers a dark side to the island’s idyllic reputation: it has long been a place where people vanish without a trace.

When a young woman from his flight becomes the next to disappear, Grady is determined—and soon desperate—to figure out what's happened to Jessie, and to all those staring out of the island’s “missing" posters. But working with Raina, Jessie’s fiercely protective best friend, to uncover the truth is anything but easy, and with an inexplicable and sinister presence stalking his every step, Grady can only hope he'll find the answer before it's too late.

Perfect for fans of Peter Heller and The White Lotus, and from award-winning writer Elizabeth Hand, a master of crime fiction known for her magnetic characters, seductive prose, and fearless excavations into the darkest corners of our world, comes a chilling and illuminating new novel about a place unlike any other—and the deadly cost of keeping it so.

"Set in a Hawaii so vividly imagined I'm still shaking sand out of my shoes."—Grady Hendrix

“Twisty and dark . . . easily one of the best thrillers I've read.” —Rachel Hawkins
 
“This is the perfect book for your summer beach bag—an evocative mystery set in a tropical island paradise . . . I was completely enthralled!” —Jason Rekulak
  
 

About Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand is the author of more than nineteen cross-genre novels and collections of short fiction. Her work has received the Shirley Jackson Award three times, the World Fantasy Award four times, and the Nebula Award twice, as well as the James M. Tiptree Jr. and Mythopoeic Society awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie on November 30, 2022

Crap. This was good. I shake my head in bemused wonder at the naysayers here and encourage the rest of y'all to settle in for a cracking good read. I mentioned in an earlier review that I needed to start a shelf of books that Goodreaders got wrong, and this would be the latest entry (I still haven't......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on July 14, 2022

Oh my goodness! This took so long to pick up! A good majority of the book nothing happens. I went into this expecting a creepy, horror story and was disappointed that it fell flat. Grady Kendall jumps at the chance to work as a caretaker for a luxury mansion on on the famous Hokuloa Road in Kolihi,......more

Goodreads review by Mallory on October 17, 2022

This book was a much slower burn than I was expecting. I also think the author tackled something really difficult in writing about the early days of the pandemic. I went into this hoping for an attention grabbing creepy story and while there were some cool creepy elements there was too much nothing......more

Goodreads review by Nightwing on March 01, 2022

I read this book without remembering who the author was, but *knew* it was an Elizabeth Hand book as the story progressively and subtly got stranger and odder and ever more interesting. I love her writing, and this is an excellent addition to her works.......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on April 10, 2022

This was a slooooooow burn. Very slow. And not a lot of action, really at all, certainly for a horror novel. I admired it more than I enjoyed it. It is clearly a book that wants to show us Hawai'i in depth, but it can never fully win you over as we see the whole thing through the eyes of an outsider......more

Quotes

“Elizabeth Hand has been one of my favorite authors since Wylding Hall, so when I opened Hokuloa Road I knew I'd get her signature mix of deeply evocative prose, sinister surroundings, and fascinating characters. I was right, but even as a long time Hand Fan, I was completely blown away by this book. Hokuloa Road is twisty and dark, easily one of the best thrillers I've read, but it's so much more than that, too. It's thoughtful and pensive, smart and scary, and exhilarating as you realize that you're in the hands of a master storyteller. After reading this book, I promise, Elizabeth Hand is going to become one of your favorite authors, too.”—Rachel Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author of Reckless Girls and The Wife Upstairs

"Set in a Hawaii so vividly imagined I'm still shaking sand out of my shoes, Elizabeth Hand's perfectly crafted ghost story is exactly the comfort-destroying read you need on a long, lonely night."—Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of The Final Girl Support Group

“This is the perfect book for your summer beach bag—an evocative mystery set in a tropical island paradise. The locals warn that Hokuloa Road is dangerous, but I was completely enthralled by its scenery and secrets!”
 —Jason Rekulak, author of Hidden Pictures

Praise for The Book of Lamps and Banners

“Cass Neary is a remarkable heroine. As with Sherlock Holmes, her power lies in the act of seeing what ordinary people cannot, only where Holmes brings clues to light, Neary is content to linger in the dark. Her eye catches the liminal spaces between clarity and shadow so well I found myself rereading passages for the beauty of her way of seeing.”—New York Times Book Review, on The Book of Lamps and Banners

"The ancient manuscript at the center of The Book of Lamps and Banners is as kaleidoscopic, dark, and mysterious as Hand's amateur sleuth. This novel is a jaw-punch, written with a snarling grace."—Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin atthe End of the World, on The Book of Lamps and Banners

"It's hard to imagine a more perfect novel than The Book of Lamps and Banners . . . Elizabeth Hand has delivered a startling book that is dirty, wise, aching, and almost magical. Hand expertly marries muscular prose to sophisticated detail, resulting in an enviably smart, fearless novel that conjures demons, evokes an immediate sense of place, and summons the surreal."—Ivy Pochoda, author of These Women, on The Book of Lamps and Banners

“A hair-raising, mind-bending trip… Exquisitely suspenseful, and the paranoia suffusing the story is very much of our present moment.”—BookPage (starred review), on The Book of Lamps and Banners

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