Review: Edge of your Seat Suspense
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 4, 2013
This book has more twists and turns than the road depicted in "Blood Alley". On several occasions, I caught myself second-guessing and thinking that I had the answer to solve this riddle about the many deaths on this stretch of highway, wondering what is real and what is not.  Then BOOM, the story goes in a different direction and new perils for the group of teenagers.Four teens are forced to spend most of the day at a restaurant / gas station while their vehicle is repaired. It sits by itself in the middle of nowhere and marks the beginning of the famed haunted highway. Newspaper clippings on the wall held articles and pictures about the many accidents and deaths of travelers during the last sixty years. Most people feel the stories about a ghost haunting this 50-mile stretch of highway in the Mojave desert are old wives tales, created to instill fear in passing tourists. The locals plead with the foursome to stay at a nearby hotel for the night, the moon is full tonight as a warning for others to keep off the road after dark. The group is en route to a family member's funeral on the following morning - the day-long delay has already put them behind schedule.  There is no choice and they drive out onto that fabled stretch of road at dusk.It doesn't take long for this group to start believing in the stories...it doesn't take long before the ghost notices them.  Unknown to the others, one of the four, a girl who was adopted early in her life, has a special agenda: She believes that she is related, somehow, to a family that once lived nearby. They were all killed by the father, who was then killed by policemen that were sent to evict him from his property.  The government bought him out, but he didn't want to sell and fought to stay there. That was sixty years ago!Could he be the ghost?  Why is he haunting and killing what he refers to as "trespassers" on the highway? Is the ghost related to one of the teenagers?  Do any of them survive?David, this book kept me on the edge of my seat and would not let me put it down. I am thankful for starting it during the early afternoon because it afforded me enough time to finish it later that night.  I had no choice...there wasn't a good place anywhere in the book to set it aside until the next day.  Too many questions remained unanswered and the ghost was on a war path...I would never have been able to fall asleep unless I finished it!Blood Alley is highly recommended as are David's other books which I've also read.  Great job!  Keep them coming!John Podlaski, authorCherries - A Vietnam War Novel