James Patterson & Mike Lupica: The Country Road Murders (UK 2027)

From the Publisher:
'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades' LEE CHILD
Cross Rivers is the kind of small town where everyone knows your name - and your secrets.
Silas Tucker was destined for glory until a devastating accident brought him back to the place where his life fell apart. His father was gunned down on a deserted country road when Silas was just a boy. The killer never brought to justice.

Now, teenage girls are vanishing and the Southern Mafia's shadow looms over his hometown.
The community is terrified. The police need help. And Silas Tucker has nothing left to lose.
When the law isn't enough, sometimes you have to take justice into your own hands.

James Patterson & Mike Lupica: The Country Road Murders. Some debts can only be paid in blood. Penguin, ISBN: 9781804959978 (January, 2027), 416 p., £9.99.

James Patterson & Mike Lupica: The Country Road Murders (UK 2026)

From the Publisher:
'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades' LEE CHILD
Cross Rivers is the kind of small town where everyone knows your name - and your secrets.
Silas Tucker was destined for glory until a devastating accident brought him back to the place where his life fell apart. His father was gunned down on a deserted country road when Silas was just a boy. The killer never brought to justice.

Now, teenage girls are vanishing and the Southern Mafia's shadow looms over his hometown.
The community is terrified. The police need help. And Silas Tucker has nothing left to lose.
When the law isn't enough, sometimes you have to take justice into your own hands.

James Patterson & Mike Lupica: The Country Road Murders. Some debts can only be paid in blood. Century, ISBN: 9781529978483 (July, 2026), 416 p., £20.00, eBook £9.99.

James Patterson and Mike Lupica: The Country Road Murders (USA 2026)

From the Publisher:
After a shocking accident, Silas Tucker's legendary football career is suddenly over in this action-packed sports thriller powered by loyalty, competition, and family.

Humbled, but never defeated, he returns to his backwoods hometown, Cross Rivers, North Carolina, where his father was murdered.

He goes back to what's left of his family and their small, struggling farm. He reunites with his best friend in the world -- Taylor McCarter Webb, who is now married.

Then Silas is pulled into a deadly battle with the Southern Mafia who control drugs, trafficking and murder.

As the suspense crescendos, Silas follows one rule for survival: you don't ride these country roads alone, or in the dead of night.

James Patterson and Mike Lupica: The Country Road Murders. Little, Brown, & Co., ISBN: 9780316599870 (July, 2026), 416 p., $30.00, eBook $14.99.