Fear the Worst by Linwood Barclay
The worst day of Tim Blake's life started out with him making breakfast for his seventeen-year-old daughter Sydney. Syd was staying with him while she worked a summer job - even if he wasn't entirely sure what her job at the Just Inn Time motel actually was - and Tim hoped this quality father-daughter time would somehow help her deal with his divorce from Susanne. When she didn't arrive home at her usual time, he thought she'd probably gone to the mall to hang with her friends. When she didn't answer her phone he began to worry. When she didn't come home at all, he began to panic. And when the people at the Just Inn Time said they had no Sydney Blake working at the motel and never had, he began to see his life going into freefall. If she hadn't been working at the Just Inn Time every day, what had she been doing? Something she couldn't - or wouldn't - tell her own father about? To find his daughter Tim doesn't need to simply track her down - he needs to know who she really was, and what could have made her step out of her own life without leaving a trace. Only one thing has him convinced the worst hasn't already happened: the fact that some very scary people seem just as eager as he is to find her. The question is: who's going to find her first?
A sleepy suburb turns into a quagmire of suspicion and threats, and things darken and turn dangerous before Barclay s surprise ending- Woman s Day Harlan Coben has some serious competition from Linwood Barclay. This is a high-speed, exciting thriller that is very difficult to put down once started. The plot twists around like a slippery eel and after a series of false clues delivers a surprising outcome. - The Canberra Times A thriller with real bite in its finale. - The Daily Telegraph It s not often a crime novel moves me to tears in a good way. No Time for Goodbye had just that effect and I ve been working out how Linwood Barclay did it ever since. One possibility has to do with the artful symmetry of the plot: the pay-off is perfect and the formal aesthetics of a well-executed crime novel can be moving in and of themselves. What tips the emotional scales, however, is the unsentimental and acutely observed way in which this psychological thriller deals with the ties that bind and drive families apart Not a single character nor detail is wasted in this tightly constructed thriller If Clint Eastwood were looking for the next best crime novel for screen adaptation since Michael Connelly s Blood Work or Dennis Lehane s Mystic River, he could do worse than option the Barclay." - The Sydney Morning Herald
Linwood Barclay is married with two children and lives near Toronto. He has wrote a popular column for the Toronto Star until becoming an international bestselling novelist.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780752897479 |
| ISBN 10 | 0752897470 |
| Title | Fear the Worst |
| Author | Linwood Barclay |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2009-07-09 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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