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. Zack wouldn t blame you for thinking he s safety-obsessed. True, he masterminded a plot to trade his family s exciting city lifestyle for one of suburban tranquillity. True, even after this strategic move, Zack still has issues with family members who forget their keys in the front door, leave their...
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 ...
"Fans of the crime caper will rejoice" that Linwood Barclay is back with the hilarious follow-up to his "riotously funny and irreverent" debut, in which paranoid pop Zack Walker plotted to transplant his city-savvy wife and two teenage kids to the tranquillity of the burbs-where planned communities prevail and fathers rest easy. Well, not quite...and now the Walkers have moved home only to find themselves living in the precarious crosshairs of urban sprawl once again, and Zack can't help but be worried-really worried-that just around the corner lurks the presence of some really bad guys....
"Fans of the crime caper will rejoice" that Linwood Barclay is back with the hilarious follow-up to his "riotously funny and irreverent" debut, in whi...
Newspaper writer Zack Walker's friend Trixie Snelling has a story that she doesn't want told. As a professional dominatrix in the suburbs, Trixie has her share of secrets, but Zack has no idea what she's really hiding until he finds a dead body strapped to the bondage cross in her basement dungeon. Original.
Newspaper writer Zack Walker's friend Trixie Snelling has a story that she doesn't want told. As a professional dominatrix in the suburbs, Trixie has ...
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 truth. Sometimes it's better not to know. . . . Cynthia is happily married with a young daughter, a new family. But the story of her old family isn't over. A strange car in the neighborhood, untraceable phone calls, ominous "gifts"-someone has returned to her hometown to finish what was started twenty-five years ago. And no one's innocence is guaranteed,...
Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke one morning to discover that her entire family-mother, father, brother-had vanished. No note, no trace, no ret...
Critically acclaimed and bestselling author Linwood Barclaybrings terror closer than ever before in a stunning thriller in which murder strikes in the place we should feel safest of all.... In a quiet neighborhood, in the house next door, a family is brutally murdered for no apparent reason. You can't help thinking, It could have been us. And you start to wonder: What if we're next? Promise Falls isn't the kind of community where families are shot to death in their own homes. But how well did Jim and Ellen Cutter really know their neighbors--or the...
Critically acclaimed and bestselling author Linwood Barclaybrings terror closer than ever before in a stunning thriller in which m...
Glen Garber, a contractor, has seen his business shaken by the housing crisis, and now his wife, Sheila, is taking a business course at night to increase her chances of landing a good-paying job. But she should have been home by now. With their eight-year-old daughter sleeping soundly, Glen soon finds his worst fears confirmed: Sheila and two others have been killed in a car accident. Grieving and in denial, Glen resolves to investigate the accident himself--and begins to uncover layers of lawlessness beneath the placid surface of their Connecticut suburb, secret after dangerous secret...
Glen Garber, a contractor, has seen his business shaken by the housing crisis, and now his wife, Sheila, is taking a business course at night to in...
One of the Boston Globe's Best Crime Novels of the Year One of Suspense Magazine's Best Books of 2013 Since private investigator Cal Weaver's teenage son died in a tragic accident, Cal and his wife have drifted apart. Cal is mired in a grief he can't move past. And maybe his grief has clouded his judgment. Driving home one night, a rain-drenched girl taps on his car window and asks for a ride. He knows a grown man picking up a teenage hitchhiker is foolish--but he lets her in. Cal soon senses that something's not right with the girl or the situation. But...
One of the Boston Globe's Best Crime Novels of the Year One of Suspense Magazine's Best Books of 2013 Since private inv...
The New York Times bestselling author delivers the follow-up to No Time for Goodbye--an electrifying novel of suspense in which a family's troubled past is about to return in more ways than one. And this time, they may not be able to escape.... Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family experienced a horrific ordeal that nearly cost them their lives. Today, the echoes of that fateful night are still audible, and Terry is struggling to keep his family together. But when his daughter Grace foolishly follows her delinquent boyfriend into a strange house, the...
The New York Times bestselling author delivers the follow-up to No Time for Goodbye--an electrifying novel of suspense in which a fam...
From New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay comes an explosive novel set in the peaceful small town of Promise Falls, where secrets can always be buried--but never forgotten... After his wife's death and the loss of his job, David Harwood moves back into his childhood home in Promise Falls, New York--where he comes across a shocking family secret. David finds his cousin Marla, raising a child who is not her own--a baby she claims was a gift from an "angel" left on her porch. When the baby's real mother is found murdered, David can't help...
From New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay comes an explosive novel set in the peaceful small town of Promise Falls, where se...
