Big Driver: Stephen King

This was a strange book, but strange is a non-typical King way. A female author, Tess, goes to a book signing at a library and works the crowd by rote. The head librarian suggests she take a back road to "save time" heading home. Tess takes the road and comes upon nail studded planks of wood in the middle of the road and is unable to swerve out of the way. After ruining her tires she removes the wood from the road and throws them into the ditch after a catering van nearly hits the wood. Tess realizes she is near an old gas station and her cell phone does not work. A man pulls up in a truck and offers to fix her tire after asking where the wood went. Tess realizes there is more wood in the back of his truck, all will nails. He comes up behinds her and says something crude before knocking her out. She wakes up while she is being raped. He continues raping and beating her until he believes she is dying and then throws her in a drainage pipe. Once he leaves she sees she is laying on other dead women in various states of decay. She gets herself back into the gas station and gets her clothes and shoes on and sets out on the road to the nearest town. Her car is gone. After a few false alarms thinking on coming traffic is him returning, she makes it to a gas station that is still in business and using the cell phone to call a ride. Once home safety she decides not to report the rape, but to anonymously call in the dead bodies. After some sleep she realizes she will never be safe as the man has her purse and knows where she lives. After some research she finds out the man was the librarian's son and Tess believes she was set up to be raped and killed by the mother and son pair. She goes to the librarian's house and confronts her, the woman is shocked to see her alive. There is a struggle and the librarian ends up with Tess's gun and Tess stabs her after debating on if she could take a life. She then goes after the son and kills the brother of her rapist accidentally. However upon inspection of his house she finds her purse, so he was not entirely innocent. She then kills the correct man and heads home.