New Releases by Linwood Barclay

From New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay comes the jaw-dropping finale of the Promise Falls Trilogy. It’s May 23, and small town Promise Falls finds itself in the midst of a full-blown catastrophe with dozens dead from a flu-like virus. Investigator Cal Weaver quickly zeros in on mass poisoning and a tainted water supply. Meanwhile, a college student has been murdered, and Detective Barry Duckworth recognizes a killer’s handiwork from the unsolved homicides of two women in town. Suddenly, the strange events from the last month start to add up….Bloody mannequins in car “23” of an abandoned Ferris wheel…a fiery, out-of-control bus with “23” on the back…“23” on the hoodie of a man accused of assault. The motive for hurting the people of this town points to the number 23—and working out why will bring Duckworth closer to death than ever before.

New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay delivers the second spine-chilling thriller set in the troubled town of Promise Falls, following the electrifying cliffhanger ending of Broken Promise... After the screen of a run-down drive-in movie theater collapses and kills four people, the daughter of one of the victims asks private investigator Cal Weaver to look into a recent break-in at her father’s house. Cal discovers a hidden basement room where it’s clear that salacious activities have taken place—as well as evidence of missing DVDs. But his investigation soon becomes more complicated when he realizes it may not be discs the thief was actually interested in.... Meanwhile, Detective Barry Duckworth is still trying to solve two murders—one of which is three years old—he believes are connected, since each featured a similar distinctive wound. As the lies begin to unravel, Cal is headed straight into the heart of a dark secret as his search uncovers more startling truths about Promise Falls. And when yet another murder happens, Cal and Barry are both driven to pursue their investigations, no matter where they lead. Evil deeds long thought buried are about to haunt the residents of this town—as the sins of the past and present collide with terrifying results.

Stephen King has called him “a suspense master.” Now the New York Times and #1 international bestselling author of Broken Promise delivers a taut thriller about a crime that will give the town of Promise Falls a punch to the gut... Private investigator Cal Weaver doesn’t know what to expect when he’s called to the home of Chandler Carson. The sixteen-year-old has been suspended for writing a violent story about a bat-wielding teen who beats his best friend to death over a girl. Much to Chandler’s mother’s surprise, there’s nothing that Cal is willing to do—or can do—about it. Soon after, Chandler’s best friend is found murdered—beaten to death by a bat. Cal knew the victim, and now he knows the prime suspect. But there’s more to this story than anyone could have imagined... “Barclay has established himself alongside the masters of suburban fiction.”—The Associated Press “Twist-driven thrillers packed with explosive action are a hallmark of Barclay’s career.”—USA Today Includes a preview of Linwood Barclay’s new hardcover, Far from True

An unprecedented collective features pairings by 23 best-selling and critically acclaimed suspense writers, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.

This short story from the anthology FaceOff pairs Raymond Khoury and Linwood Barclay—and features characters from their bestselling novels—in a one-of-a-kind thriller matchup. FBI Agent Sean Reilly (hero of Khoury’s five-million-copy bestseller The Last Templar) is tracking a criminal who is in possession of a lethal biological agent and threatening to unleash it on innocent civilians. But now Reilly has a bigger problem: his quarry, known online as Faustus, has created an explosive diversion and stolen a truck from a restaurant parking lot—and inside that truck is a teenage girl. General contractor and single dad Glen Garber (of Barclay’s 2011 bestseller The Accident) had stopped to grab a snack for his daughter Kelly when they both got caught up in the chaos in the parking lot. Thinking she’d be safest in the truck, he ordered her inside, and that was the last time he saw her. Agent Reilly must navigate the chase with nerves of steel, attempting to free Kelly Garber from the madman’s clutches without endangering thousands of lives in the process—and all with her terror-stricken father right by his side. For more exciting pairs, check out all eleven short stories in FaceOff!

Aux États-Unis, de nos jours Tel père, tel fils dit le proverbe et la paranoïa de Zack Walker n’a rien à envier à l’anxiété chronique de son géniteur. Pourtant, les deux hommes ne sont pas très proches et Zack ne se rend pas souvent à Crystal Lake, le coin tranquille où son père s’est retiré... Tranquille ? A voir ! Car un cadavre non identifiable est retrouvé dans les bois. Pour tous, c’est l’œuvre d’un ours, mais certainement pas pour l’imagination débordante de Zach Walker. Qui est cet homme ? Que lui est-il vraiment arrivé ? En fouillant les abords du lac pour le découvrir, le journaliste va se confronter à des dangers autrement périlleux. Entre une famille de psychopathes extrémistes, des tensions autour de la parade de la ville et des secrets de famille qui ressurgissent, Zack prouve une fois encore sa capacité hors normes à s’attirer des ennuis. Qui a dit que Crystal Lake était une petite ville tranquille ?

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, who first appeared in No Time for Goodbye, experienced a horrific ordeal that nearly cost them their lives. Today, the echoes of that fateful night are still audible. Terry’s wife, Cynthia, is living separate from her husband and daughter after her own personal demons threatened to ruin her relationship with them permanently. Their daughter, Grace, is rebelling against her parents’ seemingly needless overprotection. Terry is just trying to keep his family together. And the entire town is reeling from the senseless murder of two elderly locals. But when Grace foolishly follows her delinquent boyfriend into a strange house, the Archers must do more than stay together. They must stay alive. Because now they have all been unwillingly drawn into the shadowy depths of their seemingly idyllic hometown. For there, they will be reconnected with the man who saved their lives seven years ago, but who still remains a ruthless, unrepentant criminal. They will encounter killers for hire working all sides. And they will learn that there are some things people value much more than money, and will do anything to get it. Caught in a labyrinth between family loyalty and ultimate betrayal, Terry must find a way to extricate his family from a lethal situation he still doesn’t fully comprehend. All he knows is that to live, he may have to do the unthinkable....

Een dodelijk complot en slechts één onbetrouwbare getuige... Thomas Kilbride is geobsedeerd door kaarten. Hij verlaat zelden zijn huis, maar via het computerprogramma Whirl360 doorkruist hij hele steden. Hij grift iedere straat en ieder huis in zijn geheugen. Dan valt zijn scherpe blik op een verontrustende weerspiegeling in een raam. Het gezicht van een vrouw die wordt vermoord? Sinds de onverwachte dood van hun vader wordt Thomas verzorgd door zijn broer Ray, die zijn enige connectie met de buitenwereld is. Ray gelooft Thomas eigenlijk niet, maar om hem een plezier te doen start hij een halfhartig onderzoek. Al snel wordt echter duidelijk dat Thomas’ ontdekking een ijzingwekkend complot aan het licht brengt, waardoor het leven van de broers in gevaar komt...

It''s been two months since private investigator Cal Weaver''s teenage son, Scott, died in a tragic drug-related accident. Ever since, he and his wife have drifted apart, fracturing a once-normal life. Cal is mired in grief he can''t move past. And maybe that has clouded his judgment. Because he made a grave mistake driving home on a very rainy night. A drenched young girl tapped on his window as he sat at a stoplight and asked for a ride. And even though he knew a forty-something man picking up a teenage hitchhiker is a fool, he let her in the car--she was the same age as Scott and maybe she could help him find the dealer who sold his son the drugs that killed him. However, after a brief stop at a roadside diner, Cal senses that something''s not right with the girl or the situation. But it''s too late. He''s already involved. Soon Cal finds himself mired in a nightmare of pain and suspicion. Something is horribly wrong in the small town of Griffon in Upstate New York. There are too many secrets, too many lies. And Cal decides to expose those secrets one by one.

Rythme effréné, humour décapant, le tout premier polar du créateur de frissons. Un thriller aussi original qu''angoissant ou quand un gaffeur patenté démasque des voisins pas si tranquilles... Zack Walker a une obsession : la sécurité. Marié et père de deux enfants, cet auteur de science-fiction a préféré quitter un environnement urbain qu''il juge par trop dangereux pour une vie de banlieue bien paisible. Mais en bon parano, Zack continue à voir des catastrophes partout : ses ados s''obstinent à laisser la porte ouverte aux cambrioleurs potentiels et sa femme abandonne son sac à main à la disposition de tous. Un jour, profitant d''une virée au supermarché, Zack vole ledit sac, histoire de donner une leçon à l''imprudente. Catastrophe ! C''est en réalité celui d''une inconnue. Et quand Zack se rend au domicile de cette dernière et découvre un cadavre, les choses se gâtent sérieusement...

#1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay’s novels have been praised as “compelling” (The Associated Press), “gripping” (The Wall Street Journal), and “fast-paced” (The Washington Post). Now, Barclay returns with a thrilling story in which two brothers suddenly find themselves pulled into a frightening vortex of power and murder… Thomas Kilbride is a map-obsessed schizophrenic so affected that he rarely leaves the self-imposed bastion of his bedroom. But with a computer program called Whirl360.com, he travels the world while never so much as stepping out the door. He pores over and memorizes the streets of the world. He examines every address, as well as the people who are frozen in time on his computer screen. Then he sees something that anyone else might have stumbled upon—but has not—in a street view of downtown New York City: an image in a window. An image that looks like a woman being murdered. Thomas’s brother, Ray, takes care of him, cooking for him, dealing with the outside world on his behalf, and listening to his intricate and increasingly paranoid theories. When Thomas tells Ray what he has seen, Ray humors him with a half-hearted investigation. But Ray soon realizes he and his brother have stumbled onto a deadly conspiracy. And now they are in the crosshairs…

Keisha Ceylon is a psychic. At least, that''s what she tells people. She watches the news for stories of missing people, then waits a few days and goes to see the family. She tells them she’s had a vision and that she may know where their missing loved one is—for a price, of course. Keisha''s latest mark is Wendell Garfield, whose wife disappeared a week ago. She''s seen him on TV, pleading for his wife to come home, or for whoever took her to let her go. Keisha tells Wendell her vision of what might have happened. Unluckily for Keisha, her vision turns out to be alarmingly close to the truth. As she wades deeper into the mystery, Keisha inadvertently finds herself caught in a web of suspicion and violence that’s much more complicated than she first thought—and which may end up with her own disappearance… Also includes a preview of Linwood Barclay’s newest thriller, Trust Your Eyes

Journalist David Harwood, zijn vrouw Jan en hun vierjarige zoontje Ethan spenderen een mooie dag in het Five Mountains-pretpark. Alles is zoals het moet zijn, tot Ethan ineens verdwenen is. In paniek gaan ze op zoek. Kort daarna vindt David hun zoontje terug, slapend in zijn wandelwagentje; maar nu is Jan zoek. De alarmbellen gaan pas goed rinkelen als blijkt dat het park geen registratie heeft van het toegangskaartje dat haar is verkocht, en dat ze niet voorkomt op de beveiligingstapes. Thuis is ze ook niet. Terwijl de politie David ervan verdenkt zijn vrouw te hebben vermoord met het verdwijningsverhaal als dekmantel, duikt hij in Jans verleden en komt erachter dat hij zijn vrouw eigenlijk nooit echt heeft gekend...

El plan era perfecto. Nada podía salir mal. ¿O sí? Un thriller estremecedor. Glen Barber no es la única persona en el pequeño pueblo de Milford, Connecticut, que tiene quebraderos de cabeza. La crisis económica ha puesto su negocio de construcción en una situación más que comprometida y, después de que un misterioso incendio redujera a cenizas una de sus obras, las cosas no han hecho más que empeorar. Su esposa, Sheila, tiene sus propios planes para sacarlos del atolladero, pero entonces tiene un accidente y los sueños de prosperidad se desvanecen en una neblina de desesperación, dolor y rabia. En busca de respuestas, Glen comenzará a indagar en las circunstancias del trágico incidente solo para descubrir el lado oscuro de la idílica vecindad de Milford. «¿Cómo he podido pasar toda mi vida sin Linwood Barclay? Con esta novela Barclay se sitúa en lo más alto del panteón del suspense.» Stephen King

Après Cette nuit là, Les Voisins d''à côté et Ne la quitte pas des yeux, Linwood Barclay confirme son talent à la mesure d''un Harlan Coben. Un thriller machiavélique ou quand un père divorcé part sur les traces de sa fille adolescente disparue et se découvre une vie entière bâtie sur des mensonges... Votre fille avait promis d''être à l''heure pour le dîner. Elle ne rentre pas. L''attente. La peur qui monte. Coups de fil : son travail, sa meilleure amie, les urgences. Personne ne sait rien. Et si elle avait menti ? Et si elle n''était pas celle que vous croyez ? Et si toute votre vie était en train d''exploser ? Aux confins de toutes nos angoisses... Linwood Barclay, créateur de frissons.

Barclay, LinwoodZonder een woordWat als je hele familie spoorloos verdwijnt?Middelbare scholiere Cynthia Archer wordt op een ochtend wakker en ontdekt dat haar vader, moeder en broertje weg zijn. Er ligt geen briefje, er wordt niet gebeld. Er wordt gewoon nooit meer iets van hen vernomen. Vijfentwintig jaar later weet Cynthia, inmiddels getrouwd en moeder van een dochtertje, nog steeds niet wat er is gebeurd. Als ze te gast is bij een Spoorloos-achtig televisieprogramma komt alles in een stroomversnelling.

Vous êtes marié, père d''un petit garçon. Un boulot intéressant. Un couple plutôt heureux. Et si le pire était à venir ? Une belle journée, une sortie en famille, votre épouse qui s''éloigne quelques instants. Et qui ne revient pas. Fugue ? Enlèvement ? Suicide ? Aux confins de toutes nos angoisses... Linwood Barclay, créateur de frissons.

Baffled when his non-drinking wife dies in a drunk-driving accident that she caused, Glen Carver struggles as a single father while trying to understand other inconsistencies, which add up to a conspiracy involving virtually everyone he knows.

Le best-seller de Linwood Barclay, désormais une série France TV. Une intrigue magistrale qui se joue de nos angoisses les plus profondes, menée à un train d''enfer par le nouvel expert du thriller familial. Imaginez... Vous avez quatorze ans. Vous faites le mur pour la première fois. Le lendemain matin, la maison est vide. Votre famille s''est volatilisée. Découvertes troublantes, coups de fil anonymes, messages inquiétants : vingt-cinq ans plus tard, le passé resurgit...

“The best thriller I’ve read in five years.”—Stephen King A warm summer Saturday. An amusement park. David Harwood is glad to be spending some quality time with his wife and their four-year-old son. But what begins as a pleasant family outing turns into a nightmare after an inexplicable disappearance. A frantic search only leads to an even more shocking and harrowing turn of events. Until this terrifying moment, David Harwood is just a small-town reporter in need of a break. Now the only thing he cares about is restoring his family. Desperate for any clue, David dives into his own investigation—and into a web of lies and deceit. For with every new piece of evidence he uncovers, David finds more questions—and moves ever closer to a shattering truth. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Linwood Barclay''s The Accident. Praise for Never Look Away “Outstanding . . . The tension mounts. . . . The surprising twists and appealing characters rank this among the author’s best.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The writing is crisp; the twists are jolting and completely unexpected.”—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly “Mr. Barclay can flawlessly assume the voice of a small-town American dad.”—The New York Times “Plenty of surprises and twists.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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 worked, no one has ever heard of her. Even her closest friends seem to be at a loss. As he retraces Sydney’s steps, Tim discovers that the suburban Connecticut town he always thought of as idyllic is anything but. What he doesn’t know is that his every move is being watched. There are others who want to find Sydney as much as Tim does. And the closer Tim comes to the truth, the closer he comes to every parent’s worst nightmare—and the kind of evil only a parent’s love has a chance in hell of stopping.

Die 17jährige Sydney kommt eines Abends nicht von ihrem Sommerjob in einem Hotel nach Hause. Sie ist nicht über Handy zu erreichen. Ihr Vater Tim macht sich grosse Sorgen. Er fährt los, um sie abzuholen. Doch die Angestellten des Hotels versichern ihm, noch nie von einem Mädchen namens Sydney gehört zu haben. Linwood Barclay spielt auch in seinem neuen Thriller wieder meisterhaft mit unseren schlimmsten Ängsten.

“The night they killed our neighbors, we never heard a thing.” In a quiet suburban neighborhood, in a house only one door away, a family is brutally murdered for no apparent reason. And you think to yourself: It could have been us. And you start to wonder: What if we’re next? Linwood Barclay, critically acclaimed author of No Time for Goodbye, brings terror closer than ever before in a thriller where murder strikes in the place we feel safest of all. Promise Falls isn’t the kind of community where a family is shot to death in their own home. But that is exactly what happened to the Langleys one sweltering summer night, and no one in this small upstate New York town is more shocked than their next-door neighbors, Jim and Ellen Cutter. They visited for the occasional barbecue and their son, Derek, was friends with the Langleys’ boy, Adam; but how well did they really know their neighbors? That’s the question Jim Cutter is asking, and the answers he’s getting aren’t reassuring. Albert Langley was a successful, well-respected criminal lawyer, but was he so good at getting criminals off that he was the victim of revenge—a debt his innocent family also paid in blood? From the town’s criminally corrupt mayor to the tragic suicide of a talented student a decade before, Promise Falls has more than its share of secrets. And Jim Cutter, failed artist turned landscaper, need look no further than his own home and his wife Ellen’s past to know that things aren’t always what they seem. But not even Jim and Ellen are ready to know that their son was in the Langley house the night the family was murdered. Suddenly the Cutters must face the unthinkable: that a murderer isn’ t just stalking too close to home but is inside it already. For the Langleys weren’ t the first to die and they won’t be the last. Praise for Too Close to Home “[Linwood] Barclay knows how to put ordinary people into extraordinarily dangerous circumstances. . . . Readers will zip through it with delight.”—Publishers Weekly “[An] affecting and effective thriller.”—Wall Street Journal Review

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, not even her own. By the time Cynthia discovers her killer’s shocking identity, it will again be too late . . . even for goodbye.

Metropolitan newspaper writer Zack Walker has a knack for stumbling onto deadly stories. But it’s one that his good friend Trixie Snelling doesn’t want told that’s about to unleash a storm of trouble. As a professional dominatrix in the suburbs, Trixie has her share of secrets, but Zack has no idea what she’s really hiding when a local newspaperman threatens to do an exposé on her…not until Zack finds a dead body strapped to the bondage cross in her basement dungeon. Now Zack is implicated in a murder, Trixie is missing, and everything he thought he knew about his friend, his town, even his own marriage, reveals a darker side. Zack’s twisted trail to the truth will lead to a long-unsolved triple homicide, bikers, drug wars, and a stone-cold killer hell-bent on revenge. It’s a story that’s already cost him his job and possibly his wife, and, if Zack’s not very lucky, it will cost him his life.

“A talented writer with a gift for the absurd and a wicked take on life.”—January Magazine “Barclay is the master.”—The Wall Street Journal Newspaper writer, family man, and reluctant hero Zack Walker has stumbled onto some dicey stories before, but nothing like what he’s about to uncover when a mutilated corpse is found at his father’s lakeside fishing camp. As always, Zack fears the worst. And this time, his paranoid worldview is dead-on. While the locals attribute the death to a bear attack, Zack suspects something far more ominous—a predator whose weapons include arson, assault, and enough wacko beliefs to fuel a dozen hate groups. Then another body is discovered and a large supply of fertilizer goes missing, evoking memories of the Oklahoma City bombing. But it’s when he learns that his neighbor is a classic Lone Wolf—FBI parlance for a solo fanatic hell-bent on using high body counts to make political statements—that Zack realizes the idyllic town of his childhood is under siege. The fuse is lit to a catastrophe of unimaginable terror. And with time running out, Zack must face off with a madman. “Barclay is a very funny—and insightful—writer with huge potential for the long run.”—Flint Journal Review