Too Close to Home

Zusatztext “Barclay knows how to put ordinary people into extraordinarily dangerous circumstances…. Readers will zip through it with delight.”— Publishers Weekly "Affecting and effective . . .[Barclay] hit the international best-seller lists last year with his first thriller! No Time for Goodbye. Too Close to Home shows him in even better form.” — Wall Street Journal “A terrifically fast-paced suspense story.” — Washington Post “A gripping read.” — Booklist Informationen zum Autor Linwood Barclay  is a former columnist for the  Toronto Star . He is the #1 internationally bestselling author of many critically acclaimed novels, including  The Accident, Never Look Away, Fear the Worst, Too Close to Home,  and  No Time for Goodbye . Multiple titles   have been optioned for film. Klappentext Critically acclaimed and bestselling author Linwood Barclay brings terror closer than ever before in a stunning thriller in which murder strikes in the place we should feel safest of all.... In a quiet neighborhood, in the house next door, a family is brutally murdered for no apparent reason. You can't help thinking, It could have been us. And you start to wonder: What if we're next? Promise Falls isn't the kind of community where families are shot to death in their own homes. But how well did Jim and Ellen Cutter really know their neighbors—or the darker secrets of their small town? They don't have to look further than their own marriage to know that things aren't always what they seem. Now the Cutters and their son, Derek, must face the unthinkable: that a murderer isn't just stalking too close to home...but is inside it already. Chapter One The night they killed our neighbors, the Langleys, we never heard a thing. It was warm and humid that evening, so we'd closed all the windows and had the air conditioner cranked up as high as it would go. Even at that, we couldn't get the temperature in the house much below 76. This was late July, and we'd been suffering through a heat wave the last week, the thermometer hitting mid-90s pretty much every day, except for Wednesday, when it hit 100. Even some rain early in the week had failed to break it. It wasn't getting much below the mid-80s even after the sun went down. Normally, it being a Friday night, I might have stayed up a little later, even have been up when it happened, but I had to work Saturday. That rain had set me back with all the customers I do yard work for. So Ellen and I had packed it in pretty early, nine-thirty or so. Even if we'd been up, we'd probably have been watching TV, so it's pretty unlikely we'd have heard anything. It's not like the Langleys' place is right next door. It's the first house in off the highway along our shared driveway. Once you pass their place, it's still another fifty or sixty yards or so before you get to our house. You can't see our place from the highway. Homes out here on the outskirts of Promise Falls in upstate New York have some space between them. You can see the Langleys' house up the lane, through the trees, but we never heard their parties, and if the racket I make tuning up lawn mowers ever bothered them, they never said anything about it. I was up around six-thirty Saturday morning. Ellen, who didn't have to go into her job up at the college, stirred as I moved into a sitting position on the side of the bed. "Sleep in," I said. "You don't have to get up." I stood up, wandered down to the foot of the bed, saw that the book Ellen had been reading before she'd turned out the light had fallen to the floor. It was just one of a stack of books on her bedside table. You have to do a lot of reading when you organize a college literary festival. "It's okay," she mumbled resignedly, turning her face into the pillow and pulling the covers tighter. "I'll ...

Product details

• Authors: Linwood Barclay
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.07.2009
• EAN: 9780553590432
• ISBN: 978-0-553-59043-2
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 176 mm x 30 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense