LINWOOD BARCLAY

El plan era perfecto. Nada pod#a salir mal. #O s#? Un thriller estremecedor. Glen Barber no es la #nica persona en el peque#o pueblo de Milford, Connecticut, que tiene quebraderos de cabeza. La crisis econ#mica ha puesto su negocio de construcci#n en una situaci#n m#s que comprometida y, despu#s de que un misterioso incendio redujera a cenizas una de sus obras, las cosas no han hecho m#s que empeorar. Su esposa, Sheila, tiene sus propios planes para sacarlos del atolladero, pero entonces tiene un accidente y los sue#os de prosperidad se desvanecen en una neblina de desesperaci#n, dolor y rabia. En busca de respuestas, Glen comenzar# a indagar en las circunstancias del tr#gico incidente solo para descubrir el lado oscuro de la id#lica vecindad de Milford. "#C#mo he podido pasar toda mi vida sin Linwood Barclay? Con esta novela Barclay se sit#a en lo m#s alto del pante#n del suspense." Stephen King

A Promise Falls, près de New York, alors que la journée commençait paisiblement, les décès s'enchaînent soudainement à cause d'une contamination de l'eau. Constatant 23 victimes le 23 mai, l'inspecte

I know I won't be able to get them all. But I hope I'll be able to get enough.'The day begins like any other Saturday - a shower, coffee, breakfast. But suddenly, all hell breaks loose in the town of Promise Falls. People are dying in the street - the hospital and emergency services are overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Is it mass food poisoning, a virus, or something more sinister? Has someone, rather than something, caused this? I will teach this town a lesson it will never forget.'Detective Barry Duckworth is already investigating two murders and an explosion at the town's drive-in. He starts to wonder if these crimes and the new attacks are connected to the mysterious incidents in Promise Falls involving the number twenty-three. But who is sending these deadly messages, and how can they be stopped? 'Let the lesson begin...'The final book in the Promise Falls trilogy, The Twenty-Three is a pulse-pounding, race-against-time thriller.

Linwood BarclayThe worst day of Tim Blake's life started out with him making breakfast for his seventeen-year-old daughter Sydney. Syd was staying with him while she worked a summer job - even if he wasn't entirely sure what her job at the Just Inn Time motel actually was - and Tim hoped this quality father-daughter time would somehow help her deal with his divorce from Susanne. When she didn't arrive home at her usual time, he thought she'd probably gone to the mall to hang with her friends. When she didn't answer her phone he began to worry. When she didn't come home at all, he began to panic. And when the people at the Just Inn Time said they had no Sydney Blake working at the motel and never had, he began to see his life going into freefall. Only one thing has him convinced the worst hasn't already happened: the fact that some very scary people seem just as eager as he is to find her. The question is: who's going to find her first?

A keep-you-guessing thriller about a family with a dark secret hiding in a town with no patience for lies.If you made a mistake that took someone's life, you'd remember it . . . wouldn't you?After a tragedy rocks the community of Promise Falls, Cal Weaver is asked to investigate the threats being made to the accused's family. He's heard all about it on the news: the young man who drank too much, stole a Porsche and killed a girl, and who claimed afterwards not to remember a single thing. The whole town is outraged that he got off lightly, but for reasons Cal can't explain he accepts the job. Then Cal finds himself caught up in a vicious revenge plot, chasing someone set on delivering retribution. In Cal's experience, it's only ever a matter of time before threats turn into action . . .A gripping thriller packed with scandal in a small town, from the master of the twist you never saw coming - international bestseller, Linwood Barclay.

When Cal Weaver stops at a red light on a rainy night while driving home, he ignores the bedraggled-looking teenage girl trying to hitch a ride - even when she starts tapping on his window. But when he realises she's one of his son's classmates, he knows he can't really leave her, alone, on the street. But nothing prepares him for the consequences of trying to help her out. The next morning he's gone from Good Samaritan to Murder Suspect, and with one girl dead and another missing, he's suddenly at the centre of a deadly puzzle that reaches right to the heart of the town - from its bullying police force to its strangely furtive mayor - and finally to one family's shocking secret.

Una mañana que no olvidará jamás.Cynthia Archer, una joven de quince años, despierta con una fuerte resaca y temiendo la inevitable confrontación con sus padres. Pero cuando sale del dormitorio no encuentra a nadie. Ni a sus padres, ni a su hermano, Todd. De repente. Sin dejar rastro. No estan.Veinticinco años despues, Cynthia sigue con varias preguntas y ninguna respuesta. ¿Asesinaron a su familia? Si fue asi, ¿por que a ella no? Y si estan vivos, ¿por que la abandonaron de un modo tan cruel? Ahora tiene su propia familia, y sobreprotege a su hija. Teme que les vuelva a ocurrir lo mismo, por eso accede a participar en un programa de television sobre el extraño suceso, con la esperanza de que aparezcan nuevas pistas... o de que su padre, su madre o su hermano se pongan finalmente en contacto con ella.Sin embargo, lo que aparece es una carta que pone a Cynthia los pelos de punta. Quiza revolviendo el pasado haya cometido el peor error posible.Las paginas vuelan. Es un thriller para leer de un tiron.Michael Connelly

Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family experienced a horrific ordeal that nearly cost them their lives. Today, the echoes of that fateful night are still audible. Terry's wife, Cynthia, is living separate from her husband and daughter after her own personal demons threatened to ruin her relationship with them permanently. Their daughter, Grace, is rebelling against her parents' seemingly needless overprotection. Terry is just trying to keep his family together. And the entire town is reeling from the senseless murder of two elderly locals.But when Grace foolishly follows her delinquent boyfriend into a strange house, the Archers must do more than stay together. They must stay alive. Because now they have all been unwillingly drawn into the shadowy depths of their seemingly idyllic hometown.For there, they will be reconnected with the man who saved their lives seven years ago, but who still remains a ruthless, unrepentant criminal. They will encounter killers for hire working all sides. And they will learn that there are some things people value much more than money, and will do anything to get it.Caught in a labyrinth between family loyalty and ultimate betrayal, Terry must find a way to extricate his family from a lethal situation he still doesn't fully comprehend. All he knows is that to live, he may have to do the unthinkable....

Als Cynthia am Morgen nach einem Zechgelage mit dröhnendem Schädel erwacht, gilt ihre größte Sorge zunächst dem Papierkorb, in den sie sich offenbar während der Nacht erbrochen hat. Bevor die Eltern den Alkoholexzess des Teenagers bemerken, muss das Ding schleunigst gereinigt werden. Doch schon während sie sich im Bad zu schaffen macht, ist ihr, als sei es irgendwie viel zu still im Haus. Ihre Eltern und auch ihr Bruder haben ganz offensichtlich das Haus heute schon weit vor der Zeit verlassen. Doch warum? Und: wohin? Tatsächlich bleiben die Drei auf Dauer wie vom Erdboden verschluckt. Und Cynthia plagen Selbstvorwürfe. Aber sollte das Verschwinden tatsächlich mit ihrem im Streit herausgebrüllten Wunsch „Ich wollte, ihr wäret tot" zu tun haben? Das wäre doch vollkommen absurd! Oder? Ein Vierteljahrhundert lang bleibt das Verschwinden ihrer Familie für Cynthia ein dunkles Rätsel, da holt sie die rätselhafte Vergangenheit mit einem Mal wieder ein und lässt die Ereignisse in einem äußerst gruseligen Licht erscheinen… Ohne ein Wort ist der erste Psychothriller aus der Feder des 1977 geborenen Journalisten Linwood Barclay. Doch er beherrscht das Genre bereits recht souverän. Wer schon immer auf der Suche nach einen Thriller war, in dem der Horror der Pubertät niemals vorübergeht, sondern ganz im Gegenteil im Fortlauf des Lebens immer groteskere Abgründe aufreißt, wird hier jedenfalls bestens bedient. -- Freia Danz

When the Cutter family's next-door-neighbours, the Langleys, are gunned down in their house one hot August night, the Cutters' world is turned upside down. That violent death should have come so close to them is shocking enough in suburban Promise Falls, but at least the Cutters can console themselves with the thought that lightning is unlikely to strike twice in the same place. Unless, of course, the killers went to the wrong house At first the idea seems crazy. But gradually we discover that each of the Cutter family has a secret they'd rather keep buried. What was on that old computer teenage Derek and his friend Adam Langley had salvaged? And where is it now? What hold does a local professor and bestselling author have on Eileen Cutter? And what does Jim Cutter know about Mrs Langley that even her husband didn't? To find out who killed the Langleys and why, everybody's secrets are going to have to come out. But the final secret - the secret that could save them or destroy them - is in the one place nobody would ever think of looking...

Linwood BarclayWhen the Cutter family's next-door-neighbours, the Langleys, are gunned down in their house one hot August night, the Cutters' world is turned upside down. That violent death should have come so close to them is shocking enough in suburban Promise Falls, but at least the Cutters can console themselves with the thought that lightning is unlikely to strike twice in the same place. Unless, of course, the killers went to the wrong house At first the idea seems crazy. But gradually we discover that each of the Cutter family has a secret they'd rather keep buried. What was on that old computer teenage Derek and his friend Adam Langley had salvaged? And where is it now? What hold does a local professor and bestselling author have on Eileen Cutter? And what does Jim Cutter know about Mrs Langley that even her husband didn't? To find out who killed the Langleys and why, everybody's secrets are going to have to come out. But the final secret - the secret that could save them or destroy them - is in the one place nobody would ever think of looking...

When the Cutter family's next-door-neighbours, the Langleys, are gunned down in their house one hot August night, the Cutters' world is turned upside down. That violent death should have come so close to them is shocking enough in suburban Promise Falls, but at least the Cutters can console themselves with the thought that lightning is unlikely to strike twice in the same place. Unless, of course, the killers went to the wrong house?