No Time for Goodbye

by Linwood Barclay

Ebook, 2007

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Description

Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML: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. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Linwood Ba… (more)

Media reviews

Barclay's approach is to busy the narrative with detail, smart angles and anything else that qualifies as devious. At this, he misses none of the tricks. He converts what at first might pass for red herrings into events crucial to the story, and he reconfigures characters that appear to be
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cheering on the Archer family from the sidelines into people with less benign agendas. Barclay rarely allows the reader to get comfortable, and in the process..he has written his most involving crime novel so far
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Awards

Audie Award (Finalist — Thriller/Suspense — 2008)
Barry Award (Nominee — Thriller — 2008)
British Book Award (Shortlist — shortlist — 2009)
International Thriller Writers Award (Nominee — Novel — 2008)
Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence (Shortlist — Novel — 2008)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2007-09-25

Local notes

might have already read this one but I have no memory of it.
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