For fans of Harlan Coben, Lisa Gardner, and Joseph Finder comes a tightly-coiled one-sit read about a terrible accident on the backroads of Iowa.



When eighteen-year-old Joshua Mayo takes a man’s life in a horrible accident, he leaves the scene without reporting the crime to the police. He hopes to put the awful night behind him and move on with his life. But he ends up telling his mother everything.

Karen has raised Joshua on her own in Cedar Rapids, Iowa—and she’d thought they’d finally made it. He was doing well in school and was only months from starting college. After hearing his dark confession, she is forced to make a choice no parent should have to make, one that draws them both into a web of deceit that will change their lives forever—if they make it out alive....



The author is an Iowa native who expertly captures the isolation—and all the opportunity for crime that comes with it—just outside Cedar Rapids.



The idea for ONE FATAL MISTAKE came after Hunt and a friend were driving on a gravel road in Iowa, and a stranger appeared out of nowhere, in a ditch just a few feet from the car. They didn’t hit him—but they started to talk about how different the night, and their lives, might be if the person had been standing just a foot closer.



In his debut last year, Killer Choice, Hunt wrote about an ordinary guy facing an extraordinary dilemma. The same holds true here: in ONE FATAL MISTAKE, we begin with a scenario that could happen to anyone. You’re out on the road in the middle of the night, and through no fault of your own, you hit someone. No one is around to witness it. What do you do next?