The story started well and the narrative was easy and engaging. After the initial part it started veering too much into the personal life of the reporter and the actual murder investigation happened only in the last part. Still the author kept me turning the pages. Hence 4 stars

Random Road follows reporter Geneva "Genie" Chase as she investigates the brutal murder of six people in wealthy enclave in Connecticut. This was a great page turner and I was desperate to find out the conclusion. However, Genie's alcoholism was a distraction, which I see was a device to show her dependence but it was just out of the blue "I need a drink" often. She was having an affair with a married man when all of a sudden her male best friend from high school reappears and she falls head over heels for him. It didn't seem realistic. The ending also seemed rushed, like all the loose ends were tied up a bit too nicely.

The murder mystery part of this book is straightforward but I wanted more about the murders and solving them instead of Genie's life and alcoholism. The love story seemed too quick and with no depth and the author leaned heavily on their past high school friendship to make it passable. The reason I gave this three stars instead of two is because it's just really readable and you fly through it, even if the content isn't that great.

Kindly received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was a very interesting book! I'm not gonna say I didn't like it because I did..... It just RN flat in a few areas.
The story was interesting. The characters I really didn't care for.
I just wished it had more

Such a shame when a mystery/thriller becomes more about the drama in the MC's personal life and hardly at all about the crime.

And normally, I could deal with it, but it's very clear that TK has no idea how to write a female character. I'm just so tired of male authors creating such clichéd female characters that further perpetuate real life gender biases.

I also wasn't the biggest fan of the whole ‘everything happens for a reason’ theme throughout. It feels like a cop-out for the way some things ended. I'm sure it has personal meaning to the author, but it makes a story feel pointless.

Overall, this just wasn't for me, unfortunately.

Geneva Chase has lost everything that’s ever mattered to her; she lives in the bottom of a glass. Now, trying to battle her alcoholism, she’s taken a job at her home town newspaper. It’s her last chance to prove she can overcome her addiction. She gets a lucky (?) break when the bodies of six people are found, in pieces, in a home on Long Island. Eager to prove herself, she begins to dig into the lives of the wealthy Long Island residents connected to the case. It’s the story of a lifetime, but can Geneva pull herself up out of the mess she’s created in her life? I loved this book, the heroine is real, not some 21 year old ingenue with no past, no problems, no life. I can’t wait for the next book in this series