Book Preview THERE IS NO delight the equal of dread. If it were possible to sit, invisible, between two people on any train, in any waiting room or office, the conversation overheard would time and again circle on that subject. Certainly the debate might appear to be about something entirely different; the state of the … Read more
Book Preview My thanks must go to a variety of people. To my English tutor in Liverpool, Norman Russell, for his early encouragement; Pete Atkins, Julie Blake, Doug Bradley and Oliver Parker for their good advice; to Bill Henry, for his professional eye; to Ramsey Cambell for his generosity and enthusiasm; to Mary Roscoe, for … Read more
Book Preview Retvenko leaned against the bar and tucked his nose into his dirty shot glass. The whiskey had failed to warm him. Nothing could get you warm in this Saintsforsaken city. And there was no escaping the smell, the throat-choking stew of bilge, clams, and wet stone that seemed to have soaked into his … Read more
Book Preview Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache. He was supposed to be making his rounds at the Hoede house, but for the last fifteen minutes, he’d been hovering around the southeast wall of the gardens, trying to think of something clever and romantic to say to Anya. If only Anya’s eyes … Read more
Book Preview PROLOGUE Their names were Edna Bauder and Pam Steigerwald, and they were grade school teachers from Butler, Pennsylvania, and they had never been to New York before in their entire lives. New York was hardly the other side of the planet, but when you lived in Butler, almost everything seemed that way. As … Read more
Book Preview PROLOGUE RICHARD Bradley had never thought of himself as a violent man, but right now he was ready to kill someone. “I can’t take it anymore,” he said, sitting on the side of the bed in his pajamas. “You’re not going out there,” said his wife, Esther. “Not again. Just let it go.” … Read more
Book Preview No Time for Goodbye Book Jacket Rating: Tags: Mystery And Suspense Fiction, Fiction – Espionage, Fiction, Suspense, English Canadian Novel And Short Story, Thriller, Mystery, Family Life, Suspense fiction, Missing persons, Domestic fiction SUMMARY:The house was deathly quiet. That was the first sign that something was terribly wrong. Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke that … Read more
Book Preview One “This is ridiculous,” Marcia Taggart said. “You’re telling me this woman here, just by holding something of Justin’s, she’s going to be able to figure out where he is? Are you kidding me? She’s going to forge some kind of some psychic link with him by fondling one of his childhood action … Read more
Book Preview “He’s really out of it.” “Look for a key.” “I told you, I’ve been through his pockets. There’s no goddamn handcuff key.” “What about the combination? Maybe he wrote it down somewhere, put it in his wallet or something.” “What, you think he’s a moron? He’s going to write down the combination and … Read more
Book Preview Jacket Man Linwood Barclay I was putting gas into the van when the dark blue Chrysler 300 whipped into the station lot. The driver didn’t pull up to the pumps, but stopped alongside me and powered down the window. “I wonder if you can help me,” he said. He had an Italian accent. … Read more
Book Preview LINWOOD BARCLAY is an international bestselling crime and thriller author with over twenty critically acclaimed novels to his name, including the phenomenal number one bestseller No Time For Goodbye. Every Linwood Barclay book is a masterclass in characterisation, plot and the killer twist, and with sales of over 7 million copies globally, his … Read more
Book Preview Fear the Worst Linwood Barclay (2011) Tags: 2010 Tim Blake is an average guy. He sells cars. He has an ex-wife who’s moved in with another man. It’s not a life without hassles, but nothing will prepare him for when his daughter, Sydney, vanishes into thin air. At the hotel where she supposedly … Read more
Book Preview The van was flying. Jeff Conroy stared out the window, nose to the glass, breathless. Seconds earlier, they’d been driving along on solid ground, but now their rusty old van was sailing through the sky. The road was so far below that it looked like a snake winding its way through the grass. … Read more
Book Preview LINWOOD BARCLAY is an international bestselling crime and thriller author with over twenty critically acclaimed novels to his name, including the phenomenal number one bestseller No Time For Goodbye. Every Linwood Barclay book is a masterclass in characterisation, plot and the killer twist, and with sales of over 7 million copies globally, his … Read more
Book Preview The moment the White Coat entered the room filled with cages, the prisoner just knew what he was planning. The White Coat was going to kill him. It might have been the way White Coat man smiled at him through the bars of his cage. The man almost never smiled. He looked at … Read more
Book Preview I ran into someone on the street in Promise Falls the other day, a woman who knew me back when I was a cop here, before I left for Griffon, near Buffalo, and became a private investigator. She said, “Oh, I didn’t know you’d moved back. How’s Donna? And your boy? Scott, isn’t … Read more
Book Preview TWO PATRICIA Henderson, forty-one, divorced, employed at the Weston Street Branch of the Promise Falls Public Library system as a computer librarian, was, on that Saturday morning of the long holiday weekend in May, among the first to die. She was scheduled to work that day. Patricia was annoyed the library board … Read more
Book Preview TWO THEY decided Derek was the one who should get into the trunk. Before heading off, the four of them, Derek Cutter included, thought it would be cool to smuggle someone in. Not because they couldn’t afford a fourth ticket. That wasn’t the issue. They just felt the situation demanded it of them. … Read more