В четырнадцатый сборник серии вошли два романа, действие которых происходит в США в сороковых годах.

“Murder on the Turnpike” takes place over a single night when a serial killer (before there was a term for that) is stalking, abducting, and killing motorists along a 100-mile length of interstate highway stretching south from New York. The state troopers patrolling the turnpike first notice an abandoned car followed by a dead body — with more mayhem to follow. Even still, it takes them awhile to piece together what’s happening.

Adding to the tension is the fact that 45 miles of this highway will be traveled by the motorcade of the President of the United States later that night. Dan O’Leary is the earnest young state trooper who discovers the first abandoned car 200 yards away from a highway diner where his girlfriend works. He later spearheads the cat and mouse game between the police and the killer that is the centerpiece of this enjoyable story.

“A DARKNESS IS COMING.” The girl’s voice spoke doom. “There are shadows on Easter Hill. That is why it is happening. That is why Fluter is dying.”

Jessica cried out these words though Maud realized with a spasm of fear that the child was no longer talking to her, but staring wide-eyed through the open window, talking to something out beyond the treetops of the open park. No longer delicate and polite, Jessica seemed charged with a visible power...

A novel of psychic horror, a vision of undying evil...