‘A Dangerous Deceit’ by Marjory Eccles

Published by Severn House,
August 2013.
ISBN: 978-0-7278-8322-3

When the remains of an unidentified middle-aged man are found beneath the snow in the grounds of Maxtead Court, home of the wealthy Scroope family, it causes but a ripple in the small market town of Folbury.

Meanwhile Margaret Rees-Talbot is looking forward to her marriage to the Rev Symon Scroope.  Not that it’s all plain sailing, for Margaret is still grieving for her father Osbert, found drowned in his bath a few months previously. Although herself from a good family she is apprehensive marrying into the wealthy Scroope family.

Whilst the death of Osbert Rees-Talbot is put down as accidental, owing to him having lost an arm whilst serving as a soldier in the South African war, questions still remain. Prior to his death Osbert had been writing an account of his experiences as a soldier during the Second Boer War.  Then he seemed to stall! What really happened in South Africa back in 1902?

Then a second death occurs and the investigating officer DI Herbert Reardon wonders if there could be a connection to the earlier death.

The book is set in 1927,  a period Marjorie Eccles portrays so well. The deferential police Inspector, keen not to upset the gentry; the small market town of Folbury, full of secrets; and the casualties of the Great War still with unhealed wounds, unable to fit back intro the life of rural England.

The book is rich in characters into whose lives the reader is drawn slowly and insidiously as their secrets are exposed.  Beautifully written this book is highly recommended.

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Reviewer: Lizzie Hayes

Marjorie Eccles was born in Yorkshire and spent much of her childhood there and on the Northumbrian coast. The author of more than twenty books and short stories, she is the recipient of the Agatha Christie Short Story Styles Award. Her books featuring police detective Gil Mayo were adapted for the BBC. She lives in Hertfordshire.

‘Bad Little Falls’ by Paul Doiron

Published by Constable and Robinson Crime, 1August 2013.
ISBN: 978-1780338194  

This is Doiron's third adventure starring Game Warden Mike Bowditch, described by one of his superiors as 'an arrogant ****up who thinks he's the smartest guy in the Warden Service.'  He also a good – if often misguided man – has the instincts of a terrier and will never give up until he's got his man. 

In Bad Little Falls, he has been exiled – mainly for insubordination – from his former posting to the desolate country in Down East Maine, up near the Canadian border.  This is an area of poverty, drug-dealing, drunkenness and danger, both man-made and natural.  Snow, ice, frozen rivers, ice-covered roads, solitary woods and isolated farmsteads: they're all here, along with a game park full of exotic animals which rich hunters can come and kill, and a skunk let loose in Bowditch's dismal trailer.

There are two beautiful women, with both of whom he falls half in love.  There is a precocious pre-teen boy.  The plot rattles along at a fine old pace, much enhanced by Doiron's brilliant scene-setting and truly excellent writing abilities. 

I loved Doiron's first two books, Trespasser and The Poacher's Son, and Bad Little Falls is as good as both of them.  Read it.

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Reviewer: Susan Moody

Paul Doiron is a native of Maine, he attended Yale University, where he graduated with a degree in English, and he holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. He is the author of the Mike Bowditch series of crime novels, including The Poacher's Son, which won the Barry Award and the Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel and Thriller Award for Best First Novel, and the Maine Literary Award for "Best Fiction of 2010. His second book in the Mike Bowditch series, Trespasser, won the Maine Literary Award for crime fiction, was an American Booksellers Association Indie Bestseller and has been called a "masterpiece of high-octane narrative" by Booklist. His third novel in the series, Bad Little Falls, will be published on August 7.  He is the editor in chief of Down East: The Magazine of Maine, Down East Books, and DownEast.com. He is a former member of the Maine Arts Commission and a current member of the Maine Humanities Council. Paul is a Registered Maine Guide specializing in fly fishing and outdoor recreation and lives on a trout stream in coastal Maine.

Susan Moody was born in Oxford is the principal nom de plume  of Susan Elizabeth Donaldson, née Horwood, a British novelist best known for her suspense novels. She is a former Chairman of the Crime Writer's Association, served as World President of the International Association of Crime Writers, and was elected to the prestigious Detection Club. Susan Moody has given numerous courses on writing crime fiction and continues to teach creative writing in England, France, Australia, the USA and Denmark.  In addition to her many stand alone books, Susan has written two series, on featuring PI Penny Wanawake (seven books) and a series of six books featuring bridge player Cassie Swan.

‘Brothers in Blood’ by David Stuart Davies

Published by The Mystery Press, 2013.
ISBN: 978-0-7524-9213-1

Laurence and Russell, confident of their superior intellect and filled with ennui, bond over their contempt for their fellow sixth form students, teachers, parents and almost everyone they come into contact with.

To relieve their boredom, they kidnap and kill the pet dog of their most detested teacher. Exhilarated by the rush of the violence, the power and the secrecy, they seek out increasingly risky situations, joining up with Alex along the way to become a dangerous, adrenaline-fuelled trio.

As adults, they continue to meet annually to indulge their murderous ambitions, killing strangers who they see as a blight on society and who have no connection to the trio in order to minimise the risk of getting caught. But when Alex is gang raped in an unrelated incident, they decide to break their self-imposed rule and take revenge on his three abusers. Overly confident, they are horrified when one of the men survives the attack, and the police start to take an interest, marking the beginning of the end of their Brotherhood in ways you cannot imagine.

As far removed from a regular whodunnit as chalk from cheese, this is a fascinating narrative of friendship and fear, intimacy and disdain. The author effortlessly draws you into a self-important and unfeeling world that, later, you tell yourself can't really exist, but which was described so convincingly that you can't be sure... With just the right amount of detail to be realistic and plot twists that you never saw coming, this reader got through most of the story in one sitting and cursed the activities that interrupted such happy escapism, watching the clock until reading could recommence.

Clever, thoughtful and disturbing rather than gratuitously violent or mysterious, the author never leaves the reader confused as the elegant denouement plays out, making the book both incredibly accessible and daringly sophisticated.

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Reviewer: Joanna Leigh

David Stuart Davies left teaching to become editor of Sherlock Magazine and is generally regarded as an expert on Sherlock Holmes, having written six novels, film books and plays featuring the character. He has given presentations on Holmes at many festivals and conferences as well as on the Queen Mary II. He appeared as toastmaster at the Sherlock Holmes Dinner at Bloody Scotland in 2012 – Scotland’s first international crime writing festival. He also created his own detective, wartime private eye Johnny Hawke, who has appeared in six novels. David is a member of the national committee of the Crime Writer’s Association, editing their monthly magazine, Red Herrings. He lives in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

Joanna Leigh studied French and German at university. She works in the aerospace industry and is a chartered marketer in the UK. She describes herself as a voracious reader, enjoying genres as varied as crime thrillers, historical fiction and autobiographies. Joanna lives in London. She is the daughter of crime thriller writer Leigh Russell.

‘Lessons for Suspicious Minds’ by Charlie Cochrane

Published by Cheyenne Publishing, 2013.  ISBN: 978-1-937692-27-8

The year is 1909 and Cambridge dons, Jonty Stewart and Orlando Coppersmith are looking forward to a summer free of students. Jonty had been thinking they should take a trip to Italy, to try and discover more about Orlando's unknown grandfather but, even as Orlando flinches from the idea, they receive an invitation to visit a spectacular country house called Fyfield. The invitation comes from Alexandra Temple, the dowager duchess, who is Jonty's mother's godmother. Mr and Mrs Stewart, Jonty's parents, are also invited to Fyfield. It is clear that Jonty and Orlando are required not merely for their charm, good looks and wit but because of their renown as amateur detectives.

Even before they reach Fyfield the two sleuths are asked to consider a case of untimely death. The coroner has ruled that Charles Livingstone committed suicide by drowning, but the young man who found him doubts this. At Fyfield they are confronted by another case of apparent suicide. This time it is Reggie Tuffnell, a lifelong friend of the present Duke, who had hanged himself from the top of his four-poster bed. Alexandra Temple does not believe that this was suicide and, despite the disapproval of her son and daughter-in-law, she wants Orlando and Jonty to investigate.

This is the start of a complex case for the two sleuths, which grows even more complicated when they realise that the two apparent suicides are linked. It brings back cruel memories for them both, especially for Orlando, whose own father committed suicide. Even the farcical trips between their two bedrooms at night is spiced with tension, for if their relationship was revealed it would mean not only disgrace but penal servitude. The whole investigation is riddled with the late-Victorian, early Edwardian gentleman's arrogance and sense of entitlement, which Orlando and the whole Stewart family find repugnant, and when the truth is discovered, there is little they can do than attempt to salvage those innocent victims left.

In Lessons for Suspicious Minds, Jonty and Orlando are charming and witty heroes and their relationship is warm and lively, with the occasional barb of suspicion when Orlando thinks Jonty is paying too much attention to a personable young servant. Allowing Jonty's delightful parents to participate in the investigation adds a great deal to the fun. However, at its core, the book is about a dark and serious crime, the result of a warped and malicious personality. Nevertheless, Jonty and Orlando emerge with both their moral values and their records as detectives intact. It is an excellent read.

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Reviewer by Carol Westron

Charlie Cochrane  couldn't be trusted to do any of her jobs of choice—like managing a rugby team— so she writes. Her favourite genre is gay fiction, predominantly historical romances/mysteries.  A member of the Romantic Novelists’  Association, and International Thriller Writers Inc, Charlie's Cambridge Fellows Series, set in Edwardian England, was instrumental in her being named Author of the Year 2009 by the review site Speak Its Name.

http://www.charliecochrane.co.uk

Carol Westron is a successful short story writer and a Creative Writing teacher.  She is the moderator for the cosy/historical crime panel, The Deadly Dames.  Her crime novels are set both in contemporary and Victorian times.  The Terminal Velocity of Cats is the first in her Scene of Crimes novels, published July 2013.

‘A Parliament of Spies’ by Cassandra Clark

Published by Allison & Busby.
ISBN: 978-07490-0962-5

Described on the jacket as "as exciting as CJ Sansom", for a fan of historical crime fiction, this book had a lot to live up to. 

Set in the late fourteenth century, the reader follows Abbess Hildegaard of Meaux - a cross between Miss Marple and Sister Wendy - as she travels across England in the retinue of the Archbishop of York. Charged with identifying the murderer of a young man in their group, and knowing that the killer is one of the travellers, she quickly realises that there is more going on than meets the eye.

Conspiracy theories abound as England prepares for a French invasion and it requires not an insignificant amount of concentration to stay abreast of all the characters, their activities and suspected allegiances. Solving the murder occasionally subsides into the background, especially when Hildegaard's husband - long thought dead - reappears determined to reclaim his lands and his wife.

So did it live up to its promise? Happily I can report that it did. Well researched, the resulting narrative is entertaining with descriptions of medieval markets, brawls and prisons creating a cosy fireside page turner.

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Reviewer: Joanna Leigh

Cassandra Clark was born in the East Riding of Yorkshire where she grew up in a village near the ancient medieval market town of Beverley. For several years she wrote scripts for the theatre, radio and television as well as contemporary fiction while tutoring at the Open University. She won a Directors' Guild Award for a stage play and ran a lunch-time theatre in a Tudor inn in York.  She is the author of the acclaimed series featuring Abbess Hildegard and her sidekick Brother Thomas. A Parliament of Spies is the fourth in the series. Her childhood spent in Yorkshire was her inspiration for the series. She now lives in London

Joanna Leigh studied French and German at university. She works in the aerospace industry and is a chartered marketer in the UK. She describes herself as a voracious reader, enjoying genres as varied as crime thrillers, historical fiction and autobiographies. Joanna lives in London. She is the daughter of crime thriller writer Leigh Russell.

‘Hunting Shadows’ by Sheila Bugler

Published by The O’Brien Press,
12 August 2013.
ISBN:978-1847173669

DI Ellen Kelly has just returned to work after an incident in which she shot the killer of her husband.  Her first case is high-profile: the abduction of a young girl.  Her Family Liason Officer seems to be working behind her back, her boss is determined to prove that the step-father was responsible.  Only Ellen sees a link between this case and that of little Molly, whose tortured body was found three years ago...

This story was told in the third person, using a variety of viewpoints: Ellen herself, the abducted child, the  abductor, the child’s stepfather, and the father of dead Molly.  This was clearly done, so that you were never confused by the switch of voice, and moving from one person to another kept the tension up.  It was even, glory be, in the past tense.  The plot is fast moving, with plenty of incidents, and you get a real feel of a busy police-station handling a difficult case.  Ellen’s a lively heroine, with a well-imagined Irish-London background, and readers will sympathise with her work-family tensions.  The lightly-handled tentative romance, her dark past and her drink problem, suggest the author’s looking at a series.  I did feel a slight overload of back-story, but that’s always a problem when an author’s establishing a new character, especially one as complex as Ellen. 

Overall, this was a well-written example of the ‘girl in danger’ thriller, with the added twist of the girl being a child.  If you like Nicci French, then here’s a new author for you to enjoy.

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Reviewer: Marsali Taylor

Sheila Bugler grew up in a small town in the west of Ireland. After studying Psychology at University College Galway, she left Ireland and worked in Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland and Argentina before finally settling in Easbourne, where she now lives with her husband, Sean, and their two children. When not writing fiction, Shiela provides a range of  writing services to aspiring authors.

http://sheilabugler.co.uk/

Marsali Taylor grew up near Edinburgh, and came to Shetland as a newly-qualified teacher. She is currently a part-time teacher on Shetland's scenic west side, living with her husband and two Shetland ponies. Marsali is a qualified STGA tourist-guide who is fascinated by history, and has published plays in Shetland's distinctive dialect, as well as a history of women's suffrage in Shetland. She's also a keen sailor who enjoys exploring in her own 8m yacht, and an active member of her local drama group.  Marsali also does a regular monthly column for the Mystery People e-zine.

‘The Backs’ by Alison Bruce

Published by Constable & Robinson Crime,
19 September 2013.
ISBN: 978-1-4721-0211-9

It is seven years since the murder of Becca Osborne, and her sister Jane had vowed never to return to Cambridge, but suddenly fate intervenes and against her will Jane finds herself back in the place that holds bad memories.

DC Gary Goodhew is investigating a burning car that leads to the discovery of a dead body. 

Despite his murder investigation he is also looking into several report from drivers of a dishevelled blonde girl seen making her way barefoot on the outskirts of Cambridge, who looks as though she had been assaulted.

Whilst pursuing these three seemingly unrelated incidents Gary learns that the man convicted of Becca Osborne’s murder is now out on parole and has been seen in the vicinity of Jane Osborne, protesting his innocence of the crime.   Although not one of the original investigating officers Gary’s current boss DI Marks was, and Gary becomes intrigues and looks at the old care file and does some investigations of his own. This brings him into contact with Jane’s volatile father, sculpturer Gerry Osborne. 

I read this book in one sitting unable to put it down.  Fast paced, the reader is drawn into three separate events, but are they totally unrelated?  Then Gary makes a shocking discovery, and matters escalate.  An intriguing mystery, that kept me guessing to the end. Most highly recommended.

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Reviewer: Lizzie Hayes

Alison Bruce  was born in Croydon and grew up in Wiltshire. She has worked in all kinds of jobs, from admin to electro-plating and from DJ-ing to IT management. She didn't always plan to become a full time novelist but can't remember a time in her adult life when she wasn't carrying a notebook and pen and jotting down ideas. One day an idea grabbed her so strongly that she decided to tackle a full length novel.  Alison had moved to the Cambridge area in 1998 and decided to make it the backdrop for the books because of its unique mix of characteristics. It is a relatively small city but has a worldwide reputation for education and science. On its doorstep lie tiny and relatively primitive rural hamlets yet it has an airport and fast rail links into London. It is traditionally English but multi-ethnic, vastly wealthy in places but under privileged in others. Alison Bruce has also written two non-fiction books, Cambridgeshire Murders and The Billington, Victorian Executioner, both published by the History Press.

‘The Highway’ by C J Box

Published by Head of Zeus,
15 August 2013.
ISBN: 978 1 7818 5114 2

A warning: if ever you’re driving cross-country late at night, steer well away from the truck drivers you’re sure to come across. Especially if you’re young and female. That’s the message I took away from The Highway, C J Box’s newest view of the dark recesses which lurk in north America’s more sparsely populated areas.

It’s a real David and Goliath scenario: rookie female cop hunts down psychopathic serial killer, desperate to catch him before his latest victims, two naïve teenage girls, meet the same fate as the countless truck-stop prostitutes who have gone before them.

Small-town detective Cassie Dewell, recruited to improve diversity in the local police force, is thrown in at the deep end, and soon learns she can’t trust anyone: not her renegade erstwhile partner Cody who has gone AWOL, not the police in the town where the girls disappeared, not even her own boss, Sheriff Tubman, a man with his own shady agenda.

The story is as sinister and tense as they come. It unfolds from several perspectives, each with its own clear voice, allowing the reader a full-circle view. You’d think knowing more than the protagonist about what was going on would lessen the tension; in fact it cranked it up, making me hold my breath as I waited to see how Cassie would work out who the bad guys were and how to stay one step ahead of them.

As well as Cassie herself, who earns her spurs pretty much as you might expect, the missing Cody and two of the most chilling bad guys I’ve ever encountered, the story is well seeded with quirky minor characters, including two of the most horrendous mothers in crime fiction. Some of the underhand and downright evil goings-on it recounts don’t exactly inspire confidence in law enforcement in the USA. And it sometimes gets a little more gory than I’m comfortable with, but that’s just personal taste.

It all adds up to a scary but riveting page-turner which freezes the bones and will make you think very carefully indeed before setting off on a long drive into America’s wilder regions.

It made me wonder why I hadn’t discovered C J Box before.

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Reviewer: Lynne Patrick

C J Box is a Wyoming native and has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, a small town newspaper reporter and editor, and he owned an international tourism marketing firm with his wife Laurie. In 2008, Box was awarded the "BIG WYO" Award from the state tourism industry. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. He served on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. They have three daughters. He lives in Wyoming.

www.cjbox.ne

Lynne Patrick has been a writer ever since she could pick up a pen, and has enjoyed success with short stories, reviews and feature journalism, but never, alas, with a novel. She crossed to the dark side to become a publisher for a few years, and is proud to have launched several careers which are now burgeoning.   

She lives on the edge of rural Derbyshire in a house groaning with books, about half of them crime fiction.

‘Mystery in Malakand’ by Susanna Bell

Published by Attica Books, 2013.
ISBN: 978-1-908002-54-9

This book opens in Peshawar at the foot of the Khyber Pass in 1920 where Hester Metcalfe works as a nurse in the local hospital. She was brought up in British India and went to England as the Great War broke out. After the death of her husband in that war she returned to India and worked as a nurse in the local hospital. She is in the hospital in Peshawar when the body of murdered British officer Major Bartlett is brought in. She does not reveal that this was her lover but resolves to discover who the murderer was.

Hester is well acquainted with many locals and speaks local languages so it is not difficult for her to consider investigating; indeed, the Chief Commissioner is pleased to recruit her for a mission to go out into the mountains of Malakand to make contact with a mysterious figure known as the Faqir.

The background of this book is lovingly described and gives the reader a real idea of the perilous beauty of the mountains around Peshawar and the totally alien attitudes of the local tribesmen. It is certainly possible to see parallels between the 1920s and today!

The story twists and turns as Hester pursues her mission but only at the end does she find any sort of solution. This is a very different take on the 1920s - I can only think of the early Barbara Cleverley books set in India as comparable. Hester is a worthy heroine whose responses to the area which she can appreciate as someone brought up there are

also indicative of the enormous gulf between British and tribal viewpoints.

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Reviewer: Jennifer S. Palmer

This is Susanna Bell's first novel but she is planning more to reflect her own considerable travels.

Susanna Bell was born in 1970.  She travelled widely as a child, living in Germany, the US and the UK, spending her school years in wilder parts of the English Lake District.  She studied history at Cambridge before joining the British Foreign Service in her mid twenties.   Since then, her career has taken her to Poland, Iraq and Pakistan; she spent a few months in Jerusalem helping a documentary team, and learnt Arabic at universities in Oman and Pakistan.   She is currently living in London and Lincolnshire.  Her travels have been the inspiration for her novels, in which she hopes to capture some of the excitement of the unknown and the complexities of life as an Englishwoman abroad.

www.susannabell.co.uk/

Jennifer Palmer Throughout my reading life crime fiction has been a constant interest; I really enjoyed my 15 years as an expatriate in the Far East, the Netherlands & the USA but occasionally the solace of closing my door to the outside world and sitting reading was highly therapeutic. I now lecture to adults on historical topics including Famous Historical Mysteries.

Linwood Barclay

Lizzie Hayes meets Linwood Barclay

Linwood Barclay was born in the United States, but just as he was turning four, his parents took him to Canada.  The family eventually settling in the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario. Linwood studied English Literature at Trent University.  His father died when he was 16, and Linwood essentially took over running the family business (an experience he wrote about in his memoir, Last Resort). At the age of 22, Linwood left the resort and got his first newspaper job, at the Peterborough Examiner. In 1981, he joined the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest circulation newspaper. For twelve years he held a variety of editing positions, becoming the paper’s humour columnist in 1993. A few thousand columns later, he retired from the paper in 2008 to write books full-time.

At Goldsboro Books on the 9th October 2013, I had the great pleasure of meeting one of my favourite authors whose book I leap upon as soon as they are released - Linwood Barclay.  He has kindly answered some questions which I share with you below.  Thank you, Linwood, for talking the time to chat with us.

Lizzie: You have just released your latest book A Tap on the Window. Can you tell us about this book?  Did the storyline come from your imagination or an experience you heard about?
Linwood: I was thinking about hitchhiking. The hitchhiker is a familiar device in crime and horror fiction, but I was wondering whether there was something new I could do with it. I thought, what if the hitchhiker you’d picked up had to briefly get out of the car, and after returning, it started to dawn on you that this was not the same person you’d initially picked up. Once I had that opening, and was happy with it, I had to figure out just what had happened, and why.

Lizzie: Having worked as a humour columnist for some years, you went on to write four comic thrillers featuring the character Zack Walker.  But your first real hit was with No Time for Goodbye. What prompted the change from comedy to the darker side of crime fiction?
Linwood: The Zack books, at the time, were not big sellers, although people are now discovering them and they are regularly being reprinted in the U.S. Funny mysteries are a pretty narrow genre, so I decided to switch gears and write a darker, non-series book. That was No Time for Goodbye.

Lizzie: Do you miss writing humour?
Linwood: There’s still humour in the new standalones, particularly in the sarcastic exchanges between characters. It’s just that with the earlier books, I constructed the plot to allow for comic situations. I don’t do that any more. Sometimes, I let things get out of control and make a scene too funny, and have to go back and tone it down. If you let things get too farcical in a regular thriller, you break the tension, and hurt the mood.

Lizzie:  I was intrigued by Trust Your Eyes.  Are the ideas for your books sparked by real events and
people, or do ideas just come to you? Or, a mixture of both?
Linwood: It’s both. Even when real events inspire me, what I end up writing is very different from the original news story. But real events can be terrific springboards to something else.

Lizzie: Your books are all stand-alone.  Have you ever been tempted to write a series?
Linwood: The four comic thrillers were a series, and I liked that.  It’s nice to have your characters all ready and waiting before you start writing. A Tap on the Window is my first book to feature an actual detective, so it’s very possible I will bring him back.

Lizzie: Do you plan your plots before you start writing?  And, if so, do your books change during the writing process, or do they pan out exactly as you originally planned?
Linwood: I need an opening hook before I start. I need to know most of my characters, who did what and to whom, and I like to know where I will end up. But the middle of the novel I don’t plan. I don’t see the opportunities that exist within the book until I get to them.

 
Lizzie:   When embarking on a new book, what area of the book challenges you the most?
Linwood: Plot. The plot needs to hang together, or nothing works.

Lizzie:   Do you have a favourite part of the writing process?
Linwood: Being done.

Lizzie: I read that a few years back you took a sabbatical to promote your books.  Do you find it difficult to balance the time spent in promotion against the time required to produce a new book?
Linwood: Actually, I took a year off  from my newspaper job to get another book finished. For five years, I had been writing a book a year while still doing about 130 columns a year, and it was killing me. So when No Time for Goodbye became a hit, I decided I could afford to take a year off from the paper to write Too Close to Home. But during that year I made the decision not to return to the paper, which was a very difficult decision. Not only did I love being a columnist, but I had a dental plan.

Lizzie: So Linwood what’s next? What are you working on now?
Linwood: No Safe House, the sequel to No Time for Goodbye, is finished and will come out in the fall of 2014. Now, I’m thinking about what the 2015 book will be, and would like to start writing it in January.

Books by Linwood Barclay

No Time For Goodbye (2007)
Too Close to Home (2008)
Fear the Worst (2009)
Never Look Away (2010)
The Accident (2011)
Clouded Vision (2011)
Trust Your Eyes (2012)
Never Saw it Coming (2013) Based on the novella Clouded Vision
A Tap on the Window

Zack Walker Novels

Bad Move (2004)
Bad Guys (2005)
Lone Wolf (2006)
Stone Rain (2007)

http://linwoodbarclay.com/