Sometimes our best intentions don't turn out well. Sometimes our worst suspicions turn out to be true. Sometimes people make terrible mistakes. Sometimes our mistakes come back to haunt us. This book is all of these things. Linwood winds the mistakes of small town America into a tale of murd...
I'd give this book 2.5 stars if possible. My fourth or fifth Linwood Barclay book to read, and I enjoyed it a little less than others. I agree with a previous poster who compared it to a TV movie...one gripe I have with Barclay's writing is that, especially in his earlier books, it is very obviou...
Eindelijk nog eens een thriller van formaat! Ben absoluut fan van Linwood Barclay en al vond ik zijn tweede boek iets minder dan het fantastische 'Zonder een woord', met dit boek ben ik weer volledig verkocht. Het verhaal wordt langzaam opgebouwd waardoor je constant, beetje bij beetje meer infor...
Leider war das Buch von Anfang an nicht besonders spannend. Die Geschichte um die Frau, die im Eis mit dem Auto versinkt war nur eine Nebengeschichte, die nur kurz erwähnt und danach nie wieder aufgenommen wurde. Eigentlich kann man dieses Buch als eine Art "Spin-off" zum ersten Buch Barclays (Oh...
Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke one morning to discover that her entire family, mother, father, brother had vanished. No note, no trace, no return. Ever. Now, twenty-five years later, she'll learn the devastating truthSometimes better not to know. . . Cynthia is happily married with a young ...
Stone Rain, the fourth novel by Linwood Barclay featuring anti-hero Zack Walker is another rollicking ride of a read. I enjoyed this one as much as the three previous installments. Stone Rain follows on pretty much straight away where the third book, Lone Wolf finishes. Zack Walker, a so-so sci-f...
In the too-quiet town of Oakwood, only the lucky die of boredom... and new homeowner Zack Walker isn’t feeling lucky. Whoever said the burbs were boring will think twice after reading Linwood Barclay’s hilarious debut mystery, in which Dad learns the hard way that he doesn’t always know best. Za...
Zack Walker is the kind of guy who would undoubtedly drive me insane in real life. He spends way too much of his time "borrowing trouble." Fortunately I don't know anyone like him; therefore, I can laugh my way through his escapades in Linwood Barclay's wonderful books. There is indeed plenty of ...
She went in and fetched it for me, leaving me with Boots. She rubbed her ugly pug-nosed face up against my pant leg. Agnes Stockwell returned with not only the phone book but a small notepad and a pencil. “What are you looking up?” she asked, and then, quickly, “Forgive me. That’s none of my busi...
Lawrence would be the first to admit this. But at least attempting surveillance in the city has its advantages. It’s a lot easier to spy on people when you have side streets and alleys to hide in, and plenty of other cars on the road to blend in with. But up here in the co...
had made me furious, but his revelation that Thomas had tried to push our father down the stairs had left me deeply troubled. Was it as bad as it sounded? Had it really happened? Dad had never mentioned anything like this to me, but that didn’t mean the incident never occurred. It wasn’t in my fa...
Heywood Duggan said, slipping into the all-night coffee shop booth across from Detective Rona Wedmore. He had to squeeze himself in. He wasn’t a fat man, but he was big, and there wasn’t any room between his stomach and the edge of the table. “Sorry to call you so late,” Wedmore said. “And to be ...
Selfridge, she of the magnificent banana bread.When Duckworth had left the station that morning he’d dragooned a female officer and put her on the phones to call nursing homes in and around Promise Falls to try to find where Sarita worked. It had occurred to him that, even if they were to call th...
Gale asked her husband in the morning. Angus Carlson was sitting on the edge of the bed, elbows on his knees, head in his hands. “No,” he said. “You’re going to be okay,” she said. “They’re going to decide you did the right thing.” “Probably,” he said, getting up and walking naked into the bathro...
I said. I wasn’t a big believer in coincidences, although I knew they could happen. “When the detective reported everything back to you, he must have included the names of my wife and daughter.”“He did.”“So when Patty said she had a friend named Sydney, didn’t that set off any bells?”“In the repo...
Headlights splayed across the living room window. A second later, a truck door slammed, and two seconds after that, Sean Skilling came barreling into the house like a runaway train. But he put the brakes on the moment he saw me sitting with his parents in the living room. He looked like he was go...
She invited me to come to her house at eight. On the way, I had the radio tuned to a local phone-in show. “Who says we couldn’t be a target of terrorists?” asked the bombastic host. “Are we too insignificant up here? A couple of hours away from New ...
The money I’d found in the brown envelope was no longer on my desk. I’d dashed down here, bringing Kelly with me, between the time I’d called 911 and the arrival of the first squad car, stuffed the money back into the wall and replaced the panel. I’d had her stand outside the office door while I ...
‘I thought, I really thought someone … Well, if you hear anything, anything at all, please, please call me. I’m desperate for any kind of news.’ He replaced the receiver in its cradle. He had decided, when he got up that morning, that he would call the police first thing. He would ask whether the...