I liked the idea, but the whole book unfortunately didn't work for me. And it's mostly my fault.There are some very specific things about books that I don't really like, and sadly two of them appeared in this book. First, I don't like flashbacks. Very often I simply skip them. Here, chapters about the past events made almost half of the book. And although I tried to read them, I had the feeling that they did not bring anything new to the main story, except maybe adding depth. Which is actually g...

Dark Highway is the third book in the well-written Jessica Shaw series, about a prickly but determined PI working cases in small-town Southern California, by Scottish former journalist Lisa Gray. I had read the two previous instalments but you can easily get into this as a stand-alone, as you get all the necessary backstory and it doesn’t spoil the earlier books either. I enjoyed this missing-person case and am liking Jessica more and more as the series progresses.Lonely and looking for work, Je...

Jessica Shaw has taken a job working under Private Investigator Matt Connor so she can qualify for a California P.I. License. Their first case is finding 24-year-old Laurie Simmonds who disappeared two months ago. Her van was found along Twentynine Palms Highway and the police have no leads. Jessica and Matt quickly discover that two other women have disappeared from the same deserted highway in the last two years. As they re-interview the many witnesses in these missing persons cases, Laurie's

This is the third book in the Jessica Shaw series, and what an exciting, well written series it is. Jessica is a very likable character, filled with a caring compassion, perfect for her career choice. She’s a PI who searches for missing people, and never gives up on a case until she finds an answer. I truly admire her ability to put clues together in her search for answers. Wow, what an ending to this book.Thanks, Lisa, for sharing your talent with us. I’m looking forward to book four and gettin...

This is the 3rd book in the Jessica Shaw series. Jessica has teamed up with Connor to solve the mystery of 3 women who have disappeared. Matt Connor is definitely not at the top of my favorite character people - enough said there.Jessica starts pulling together the pieces of the missing women and the story jumps from her current day investigation to the past where each of the missing women are showcased. It does jump back and forth a little too much for my preference but I understand why it was

Dark Highway is the third instalment in the Private Investigator Jessica Shaw series, set in Los Angeles, California. Jessica specialises in missing persons cases and is currently logging hours towards her California PI license working for Matt Connor’s company MAC Investigations, with whom she has a chemistry with from previous books. The story opens with Nick, Junior, Zee and Dusty driving down the highway in Zee’s Cutlass with a dead woman in the trunk. They stop and Dusty directs his fearful...

Chilling as it is thrilling, DARK HIGHWAY had me reading late into the night and feverishly turning the pages. Gray keeps her foot on the gas in this third installment of the Jessica Shaw series, delivering twist after heart-pounding twist in her satisfying conclusion. This is a must-add to your thriller list!

Well, well, well, what a surprise this book turned out to be. It is the 3rd book in the series, but could be read as a stand alone. This was my first Lisa Gray novel and my first book of the Jessica Shaw series, but I definitely want to go back to book one and learn more about Jessica. Jessica has become a private investigator and is at loose ends. She connects with Matt Connor, owner of MAC Investigations. He gives her a missing persons case - a young woman has disappeared near Joshua Tree and

Nailed it 😜

Dark Highway by Lisa Gray is filled with non-stop suspense as private investigator Jessica Shaw tracks down answers to a missing person case. This is the third book in the Jessica Shaw series and I could not tear myself away from this story!. The gripping worry of a missing child is enough for the parents of Laurie Simmonds to hire MAC investigations to try to find their daughter. Matt Connor has just hired Jessica to work with him as she is preparing to get her PI license. They take the case o

This is third in the Jessica Shaw series, and in this one she is working with California PI Connor in order to get the hours to get her California license. They start out on a missing girl case which seems to be linked to some other missing women, but just as they seem to be getting somewhere the girl's parents suddenly want them to back off. By then though, Jessica is committed. The story is told from multiple points of view over an extended period of time, so if you don't like that sort of nar...

Wow. Lisa Gray is quickly becoming an auto-buy author for me. Her Jessica Shaw series is just incredible, and Dark Highway was no different. Going into this third book, I was a little apprehensive as Bad Memory was such an incredible book and I was worried that Dark Highway would not live up. I was definitely wrong. Dark Highway is my favourite book in the series so far, and I cannot wait to see what happens in Jessica’s story next. I could not rate this any less than 5 stars!Murder mysteries ar...

I actually liked the case; I mean, it was rather sad, with what happened in the past and how it was related with the present time. I thought Jessica did well to work things out and connected the dots.HOWEVER, I didn't like how "busy" the perspectives here. I didn't remember the previous books to be like that; there was Pryce's chapters in addition to Jessica, but in this book, there was Connor, the victims, the villain, and it was too much. This series is called Jessica Show and it didn't have e...

Bravo, Lisa! IMHO, the best Jessica Shaw in the series, so far. I suspected Burden was Buddy, before the reveal. The way it plotted out was excellent and unexpected. I did not see the reveal in the Epilogue coming. Great ending! Buddy/Burden wasn't a monster, after all. Except for Dea, the most sympathetic character, Buddy. Lisa, suggestion for a future Jessica Shaw: Jessica tracks down Amanda, Laurie and Mallory because she couldn't let go of what happened to them. Just sayin'!

I just really like Lisa Gray’s writing style. She goes back and forth from past to present, from person to person, so you get the full story of what actually happened. I love that. And I love how she always has several different situations or crimes being investigated. Definitely keeps it from getting boring. This book is full of mystery and suspense and honestly, was actually a little stressful to read. (Be prepared...contains rape scenes.) Good solid read with a good solid ending. The best kin...

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to preview Dark Highway by Lisa Gray. This is a series book with the lead as a young woman, Jess, Private Investigator, and her partner, Matt.Jess learns about a missing woman who vanished from a highway in her camper. When it is found, the woman is no where to be found. As Jess and Matt start to look into this missing person case, they learn that others have disappeared from this highway. There seems to be more to this case and many coincidences that cann...

My third book. I like this woman. She is a nomad, she is a great detective and has a great intuition. I was waiting to read this book to see what happen with Matt that we met in the first book. They were close to each other but then she left. And now she is back with him, working. They have to solve the disapearance of a woman and like always we have a connection to the past and some other missing women. They have to solve the mystery to prevent an other death.

This mystery held my interest and kept me guessing. I loved the setting and felt the plot was fast paced Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for letting me review this book

I really enjoyed this series of 3 books. Hoping there’s number 4 round the corner

Amazing read. I too was conflicted about whether I sympathized with Burden's actions. I loved the end twist. Will definitely read more by Lisa Gray, a wonderful writer.

Thank you to both NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK for providing me the opportunity to review Lisa Gray’s latest novel, Dark Highway.Dark Highway is the third installment in the Jessica Shaw series. It is not necessary to read the first two before diving into this one. All the reader needs to know is that Jessica Shaw is a private investigator who handles missing persons cases in Los Angeles, California. Jessica and her work partner, Matt Connor, have been hired to find a wealthy woman’s 24-ye...

When young artist Laurie Simmonds disappears without a trace, save for her campervan found abandoned on an isolated highway miles from home, her parents hire private investigator Jessica Shaw to figure out where their daughter is. Jessica and her partner soon discover that this desolate stretch of highway in the California desert has dark connections to several other missing women and a long-forgotten college scandal.Page-turner! I did NOT want to put this one down. The plot has a good pace with...

A innocent girl and such terrible things happen to her. Her son who never forgot her and seeked Revenge hurt no one but the ones who deserved it

Excellent!The first 3 books have been very good! I never guessed who the culprit was in the first 2. I was a bit disappointed in this one because I guessed who it was 3/4s of the way through. Still it was a very good book. Looking forward to reading the 4th book in this series.

Jessica Hired To Find a Missing Girl, But That Number Keeps GrowingThe novel opens with four young men driving down a deserted desert highway with a dead woman in the trunk. The atmosphere within the car isn’t any better. As directed by Dusty the driver stopped alongside of the road. Dusty grabbed two flashlights and popped the truck. He told one of them to grab the shovel and start digging.The storyline switches to Jessica Shaw on her first day of work for Matt Connor with whom she worked in th...

I am fast becoming addicted to this series and Jessica Shaw grows as a character with every book. Jessica is a Private Eye who, until recently, had been itinerant, picking up jobs as she travelled. Now though, needing to up her hours to get her California PI licence, she has taken on a job working in L.A. with Matt Connor, a PI she goes back a way with and with whom she has some chemistry.Jessica is in part driven by discovering that she herself was a missing child and that helps fuel her abilit...

Dark Highway by Lisa Gray was an amazing book. I am an avid reader and I have not been reading much in the last few years. Not just because I don't have the time anymore but because I haven't been able to really get into any books, I always start and I read a little less than halfway and just can't get into it so I end up stopping or forcing myself to get through it. That is until I picked up Lisa Grays first book in the Jessica shaw series. As soon as I picked up that book I wasn't able to put

Mixed ReactionOriginally I was going to give the Dark Highway 2⭐⭐. I started reading this series after the release of the first book, read the second book...and decided to quit reading the series. I thought the plots were intriguing, I really liked the Matt Connors character. But Jessica Shaw can be such a nasty character that I can't like or sympathize with her. Dark Highway was much the same. The story was intriguing. There were some clever twists and turns. The ending was great. But, there is...

Recommend a hard copy or Kindle version, to keep track of POVs & flashbacks This is my first Jessica Shaw book by a new-to-me author, Lisa Gray. I’m a crime fiction fan, so I was invested in the missing person (MISPER) investigation—but not in the continuing, personal-arc subplot(s) which tended toward melodrama. Private investigators—Jessica Shaw and Matt Conner—discover other women are missing, from the same area. As the story progresses, the MISPER mysteries become more complicated, and soon

DARK HIGHWAY is the third Jessica Shaw story by Lisa Gray. I enjoyed the first two about a young woman seeking the required hours to achieve her private investigator license in California. She has specialized, and been successful, in missing person cases.In this third story, Jessica meets up with a character introduced in previous books, Connor, who has his own agency and wants her involved in a new case he has to find a missing young woman. Hired by the mother to find the woman missing for two