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Work InformationFear the Worst by Linwood Barclay
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Not my favourite Barclay book so far but quite good fun. It did end quite suddenly, not in a bad way, more in the "Omg, there's only 10 pages left" kinda way. ( ) Linwood Barclay is fast becoming a favorite author. It seems like all his books so far have been very good. This one, like others he wrote, starts off fairly slow and keeps building up until it was hard to stop reading. The only minus to me is that, also like some others of his, the characters seem to make some bad decisions that seem obvious to me, but it gets them in trouble. However, they are usually under stress, and that makes it hard to think straight. Also, I'm an expert because I read a lot of books. ;-) This one definitely had some surprises, but almost everyone lives happily ever after - except for several that didn't, that is. Tim is a used-car salesman. He and his ex-wife have one teenage daughter, Sydney. Sydney is staying with Tim for a while, when one day, they argue in the morning. Syd goes to work, but doesn’t come home. Tim does everything he can to find out what happened to his daughter. It was really good. There are plenty of twists and turns, especially towards the end of the book. It’s the second book I’ve read by Barclay, and although I really liked Fear the Worst, I didn’t like it quite as much as No Time for Goodbye. I did think it was kind of cool that there was one reference to the plot and a character of No Time for Goodbye as well. Right up front I have to say I enjoy Linwood Barclay's storytelling and his "normal" characters. In this novel, the focus is on a divorced dad and car salesman whose teenage daughter disappears -- and whose life seems to be a lie. Where did she work? Why did she leave? Telling more would open up a can of worms and too much of the plot -- but to say the circumstances snowball into something beyond crazy is not to exaggerate. Enjoyable read, if a bit unrealistic.
Although the book’s villains are way too crude, Barclay is more subtle in analyzing teenage attitudes and behavior, and comes up with revelations that would make any parent’s hair stand on end. Like the best suspense novels, Fear the Worst expertly navigates an increasingly jumbled plot with clarity and precision. It is a given that such novels include red herrings galore, but Barclay keeps the story moving at such a terrific clip that the 400+ pages fly by. Is contained in
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HTML:â??An uncomfortably plausible tale . . . Barclay's pacing is impeccable. . . . A page-turner that keeps the reader guessing until the end.â?ťâ??Denver Post Tim Blake is an average guy. He sells cars. He has an ex-wife whoâ??s moved in with another man. Itâ??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 Sydneyâ??s steps, Tim discovers that the suburban Connecticut town he always thought of as idyllic is anything but. What he doesnâ??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 parentâ??s worst nightmareâ??and the kind of evil only a parentâ??s love has No library descriptions found. |
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