• Down the Darkest Road

  • Oak Knoll, Book 3
  • By: Tami Hoag
  • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
  • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,839 ratings)

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Down the Darkest Road

By: Tami Hoag
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
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Publisher's summary

Number-one New York Times best-selling author Tami Hoag returns with the latest entry in her riveting Oak Knoll series.

Deeper than the Dead introduced Tami Hoag's millions of fans to Oak Knoll, a small California town that, in the mid-80s, seemed as idyllic as any... until the See-No-Evil killer shattered that notion. It took FBI agent Vince Leone and a new technique called "profiling" to put an end to the trauma.

Secrets to the Grave brought Leone's teacher-turned-child- advocate wife, Anne, into a central role. Together with Vince and local sheriff 's deputy Tony Mendez, she solved an Oak Knoll murder with a particularly challenging mystery: The victim never existed. And now Hoag returns once more to Oak Knoll for the third installment of this best-selling series.

Through Leone's pioneering, science-based investigatory skills, Hoag explores the early days of forensic police work. And through the chilling case at the heart of Down the Darkest Road, she hooks ever more readers and listeners into the meticulously crafted, all-too-terrifying world of Oak Knoll, where the scariest secrets of all can be found... Down the Darkest Road.

©2011 Tami Hoag (P)2011 Random House

Critic reviews

“Eerie, suspenseful, tragic, and thought provoking.” (USA Today)

“A mesmerizing psychological drama on loss, guilt, frustration and implacable, explainable evil.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“The setting and [Hoag's] consummate skill as a plotter add to plenty of old-school thrills that pack a punch and will leave fans breathless.” (Booklist)

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Another Winner

Could not stop listening till the end!!! Tami delivered as usual! Great story great characters!

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Good Book; keeps you engaged

I enjoyed Tami Hoag as an author; good character development and easy to follow. I enjoyed the story as well; keeps you engaged to know what happens.

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Fabulous!

As always, Tami Hoag delivers a vivid picture of loss, trauma and a time before technology. Excellent psychological thriller!

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Good but not Great. Story is ver drawn out

Tami Hoag has some great stories. This one is ok overall but some chapters went on about a weak thought

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Great book

This is a page turner it's 1 of those books you can put down until you finish it

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Great book

I was not completely happy with book 1 in this series but decided to listen to book 2 and 3 and am so happy I did so. This is overall a great series with great characters. Some reviewers didn’t like the fact that so much attention was put on a new character in book 3 but I thought it added significantly to the story. The narrator did a great job and is spot on for voices and pace. Im sad that this was the final book in the Oak Knoll series.

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Defimitely Recommended

An uplifting thriller by an author who really knows her craft, her profession. I recommend all of Tami Hoag's novels. The narrator is authentic in her portrayal of the characters' personalities. She differentiates each with such perfection that confusion never arises.

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Tami is so amazing!

The narrator was great and Tami Hoag did not disappoint! I love this author and have read many of her books. This storyline crescendoed into a story that I couldn’t put down!

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Tami Hoag

This was such a heart warming experience, words can’t express how much this meant to me

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Fantastic!!!!

I don’t understand where all the bad reviews came from ???
This book was very good , definitely kept my attention.. and the narration was fabulous!!
Yes it was different from the first two in the the series.. but it was still a great book .

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