4.5 Stars from me
I completely love reading Linwood Barclay books, I love his writing style, his characterisation and I find the stories deeply and immediately engaging.
This one is no exception, it is cleverly plotted with interesting characters. I particularly enjoyed the storylines featuring Holden and Gage but honestly each person had a thread and backstory that drew me in and made me want to know more.
As always seems to be the case with Linwood Barclay’s books, I absolutely raced through this story as I just had to know what happened, and why.
Some of my all time favourite books are by this author, and honestly you can’t really go wrong with any of them but I particularly recommend Never Saw It Coming and (if you fancy something a bit different…) Whistle.
My thanks to the author, Netgalley and HQ for an ARC in return for an honest review.
Blurb: Wrong time. Wrong place. Wrong person?
Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents’ house, he’s shocked to find them in bed, dead. At first glance it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father, but on closer inspection there’s clearly more to the story. For starters, inconsistencies in the crime scene suggest his dad may not have shot himself.
As Reece, shaken by his horrifying discovery, awaits questioning from the police, his phone lights up with a call. It’s the last person he ever would have expected to hear from.
Reeling from the day’s events, Reece finds himself questioning everything he thought he knew about his parents – and whether he and his own family are in danger now. While the authorities work to untangle the baffling crime scene, Reece is pulled into a web of secrets linked to the unscrupulous pharma company his father worked for years ago.
In order to protect the people he loves most, he’ll have to dig deep into his own past to understand who his parents were, what they did, and who they hurt – before he ends up paying for their sins.
In the latest chilling thriller from Number One bestseller Linwood Barclay, a man’s world is upended after he stumbles upon a grisly crime scene in the family home.
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