Killer on the Road by Stephen Graham Jones

 

I found this while I was on vacation a few months ago--it's two short novels in one book, each with its own front cover (the mutual back is in the middle) and I read this side of the book tonight. It's a decent slasherish horror novel--slasher isn't my main jam, but this one works, though some of what happens seems more like something that'd work better in a movie, where there are actual visuals. It's a kinda goofy novel--slasher is often goofy--but there's some stuff going on it, things about being Native American, things about loss, things about friendship and family. There's a little weirdness in the beginning as the POV character/s persist in making things worse for themselves, but bad decisions are also a part of slasher. The ending does kinda grab, and resolves a lot more than one might expect a slasher story to bother with. This is well in Jones's wheelhouse and he delivers well.