Linwood Barclay
21) Jacket Man
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From the New York Times and #1 international bestselling author of Far From True, a short story where the grifter is not who he seems. Sam seems like an ordinary guy. While he is filling up his car with gas in Stamford, Connecticut, a car whips into the station lot, stops alongside, and asks him for directions to LaGuardia Airport. Gian claims that he is from Milano, but Sam can spot an imitation in a second. The accent is all wrong, and while Gian...
22) Bad move
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Paranoid writer Zack Walker moves his family from the city to the safety of the suburbs, but when he stumbles across the body of a dead environmentalist in a nearby creek, havoc ensues as he goes in search of the killer.
23) Parting Shot
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Promise Falls (Linwood Barclay) volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
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"If you made a mistake that took someone's life, you'd remember it...wouldn't you? After a tragedy rocks the community of Promise Falls, Cal Weaver is asked to investigate the threats being made to the accused's family. He's heard all about it on the news: the young man who drank too much, stole a Porsche and killed a girl, and who claimed afterwards not to remember a single thing. The whole town is outraged that he got off lightly, but for reasons...
24) Fear the worst
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[2009]
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
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Long and short of it--Barclay delivers on the hype. Fear the Worst starts with one of the better opening lines I've read in a while: "The morning of the day I lost her, my daughter asked me to scramble her some eggs." It's such a simple sentence, speaking of everyday domesticity. You can picture a father. You can picture a daughter. Yet you're already filled with dread. A bad thing has happened. And yeah, for the next four hundred pages, the bad thing...
25) Chase
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2017.
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Get ready to run ...an edge-of-your-seat thriller with bite from international bestselling author Linwood Barclay, in his first novel for 9-12 year olds. Chipper is a very special dog. As part of a top-secret, multi-million dollar experiment to create the ultimate canine spy technology, Chipper's whole life has been spent within the walls of a secret organization known only as The Institute. Chipper is supposed to be more machine than mutt, but something's...
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[2008]
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"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 Langley's boy, Adam; but how well did they really know their neighbors?"
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Promise Falls (Linwood Barclay) volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
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673 PAGES. $33.99. 2016000741. AFTER THE SCREEN OF A DRIVE-IN MOVIE THEATER COLLAPSES AND KILL 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. DN.
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2016
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When private investigator Cal Weaver looks into a break-in at the home of a recently deceased man, he uncovers far more than he is prepared for after he finds a hidden room that was used for salacious activities. Perhaps something illegal... Detective Barry Duckworth is doggedly trying to solve two murders, one of which is three years old. he believes the killings are connected, since each featured a similar distinctive wound. And the key to his mystery...
30) Faceoff
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Features pairings by twenty-three best-selling suspense writers, including John Sandford, F. Paul Wilson, and R. L. Stine, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.