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Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay
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Too Close to Home (original 2008; edition 2008)

by Linwood Barclay

Series: Promise Falls (0.1)

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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:“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.
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Title:Too Close to Home
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Great book, kept me guessing right up until the end. Lost a star because I was mildly disappointed at the whodunnit answer. ( )
  theBookDevourer211 | Jan 27, 2023 |
Another entertaining read from Mr Barclay who never fails to impress. ( )
  MJWebb | Sep 22, 2022 |
Started to read this book a while ago, something else caught my attention, and suddenly the book is forgotten. But then one day I decided to continue and man, I just couldn’t put the damn book down. I was torture to do other stuff; I needed to know what happened, just one more chapter, one more…

Unfortunately, the ending wasn’t that surprising, partly surprising, yes, but not a fantastic surprising ending. But the book was still really, really good. So if you like a book with twist and turns then this is a book for you!
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  MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 |
Well, that was a page-turner.
It's a great example of "telling instead of showing" and also you hate everyone in the book (except maybe Derek), but definitely a page-turner.

It's kinda amazing how the author managed to make the main character - Jim - so irritating that by the end of the book I was siding with Randy The-King-Of-All-Assholes Finley.
Maybe Jim also needs a good punch in the face so that he gets off his high horse at least once a day. ( )
  alissee | Dec 8, 2021 |
Linwood Barclay knows how to tell a story and he does a masterful job of this one. He had me from the first word to the last. Note to self: find more Linwood Barclays. ( )
  susandennis | Jun 5, 2020 |
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This book follows last year's acclaimed No Time for Goodbye..This also has some unexpected twists and turns, not to mention some very good red herrings, but while I was kept guessing right to the end, the surprise finale was unconvincing.
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Linwood Barclayprimary authorall editionscalculated
Aurstad, ToreTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Barfoed, ErikTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Fredholm, ElisabetTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:“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.

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