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Too Close to Home by: Linwood Barclay List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £5.99 You Save: £2.00 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781409102090 ISBN: 1409102092 Label: Orion Manufacturer: Orion Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: June 11, 2009 Publisher: Orion Studio: Orion Sales Rank: 52030 Browse for similar items by category:
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 Rating:  - THE NIGHT THEY KILLED OUR NEIGHBORS, WE NEVER HEARD A THINGExperienced and excellent best describes narrator Christopher Lane. He has read more than 150 audio books - thus, you name the genre and he can personify it. He's taken home an Audie Award and an Audiofile Earphones Award - with Too Close To Home he takes listeners on an 11 hour journey as psyches are probed and the unthinkable happens. Promise Falls is a small town in upstate New York. It's unlike other towns in that area as a triple murder has just been committed, a family is shot to death in what should have been the safety of their home. It was a hot, steamy summer night when the Langley's and their son, Adam, died. Despite the proximity of their homes and the stillness of the night their next-door neighbors, ... Read More: Rating:  - Too close to disappointement !After racing through 'No time for goodbye',I had high expectations for this second one by Barclay. Unfortunately, I was quickly disapointed. First of all, the style has gone horribly vulgar, loose, and it is actually an effort to read such a bad prose. Second, the story is gripping to start with, but soon slow down to boring exchanges between characters we don't really care about ( the mayor , the policeman...) But worse of all, the 'bestselling'author is an absolutely uncredible character and all the storyline around him simply ludicrous with a very silly ending. Linwood, it's time for goodbye, I won't be reading another one... ... Read More: Rating: - Keeps you turning the pagesJim Cutter is shocked when his neighbours, the Langleys, are murdered, but even more shocked when it turns out that Derek his teenage son is keeping a secret about the crime and that all the evidence points to him. As suspicion turns on his family, Jim starts to do some investigating of his own into who might have committed the murders. As he starts to uncover some long-buried secrets, his own life comes under risk. This is the second book by Linwood Barclay that I have read. I enjoyed No Time for Goodbye, but felt that the ending let it down. Too Close to Home is just as readable but also hangs together better. It's an accomplished mystery that grabs you early and keeps you turning the pages late. Linwood Barclay's writing style ... Read More: |
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