No Exit by Taylor Adams is a thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a young girl stranded by a vicious psychopath. The time is ticking and Darby tries to save her.
Darby is travelling from Denver to Utah in order to see her mother before she has surgery for pancreatic cancer to hopefully prolong her life. The surgery or the cancer could take her mother’s life at any moment so Darby really has no time to waste, despite her complicated feelings towards her mother. On the way home, Darby gets stuck in a blizzard and has no other options due to road closures, accidents and a lack of plow drivers on the road since it’s Christmas Eve. Due to this, Darby is forced to pull into a mountainside rest stop until it’s safe to drive again.
Inside the rest stop, there are four other stranded people and zero cell reception. As Darby sets out into the snow to find just one bar of signal in order to call her sister and mother, Darby stumbles upon a little girl in a dog kennel inside the back of a van that belongs to one of the four stranded strangers. Darby sets out to rescue the little girl without the other people finding out. If you are into mysteries or books with a lot of suspense, I think you will really enjoy this book.