by Linwood Barclay
As Fear the Worst opens divorced dad Tim Blake is having a minor domestic spat with his teen-age daughter. Just pages later she is missing, and a whole sequence of thriller cliches is ratcheted into place. Sydney, the daughter, is unknown by her supposed co-workers at the seedy hotel she's told ...
bookshelves: published-2009, fraudio, summer-2011, mystery-thriller, north-americas Read from June 29 to July 02, 2011 ** spoiler alert ** Overlong for a bog standard 2.5*blurb - That's what Tim Blake finds himself asking when his daughter Sydney vanishes into thin air. At the hotel where she wa...
Barclay knows how to keep you turning pages.
Linwood Barclay is an author known for his thrillers, and here Barclay delivers the mystery of a missing girl who no one seems to be able to explain why she is gone.Tim is just an average guy, he sells Hondas during the day and takes care of his teenage daughter Sydney at night and he kind of gets a...
Inhalt:Eigentlich wollte Tim einen schönen Sommer mit seiner Teenagertochter verbringen. Seit der Trennung von seiner Frau lebt Sydney bei ihrer Mutter am anderen Ende der Stadt. Doch für einen Sommerjob in einem Hotel zieht sie vorübergehend zu Tim. Und verschwindet nach wenigen Wochen spurlos. Vol...
Overlong for a bog standard 2.5*blurb - That's what Tim Blake finds himself asking when his daughter Sydney vanishes into thin air. At the hotel where she was supposedly working, no one has ever heard of her. Even her closest friends can't tell him what Sydney was really doing in the weeks before he...
A decent thriller based on an aging themeQuite a few mystery thrillers have been written based on the disappearance of a person, seemingly without trace, only to have those amongst whom they were thought to live and work deny their very existence. The first of these, to my knowledge, was So Long at ...
Great Barclay read. Fast paced, constant action, nice twists...this guy just rocks in my book! Fear the Worst isn't my favorite LB stand alone, but it is really, really great.
Wow, what a sad book. And I don't mean sad as in makes you cry, I mean it was a sad attempt. It starts off slow, not a lot going on. The daughter goes missing, the dad doesn't seem "real". Nothing happens for a really long time, then things do start happening and they're seemingly unrelated - a ...
I won a copy of this book from good reads giveaways. This was the first book I'd read by Linwood Barclay, and I enjoyed the story. Great summer reading. Tim Blake is a divorced Connecticut car salesman. His teenage daughter Sydney is staying with him for the summer. One night she doesn't come h...
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