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| Too Close to Home | 
 enlarge | Author: Linwood Barclay
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 25491
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0553805568
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553805567
ASIN: 0553805568
Publication Date: September 30, 2008
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 Too close to disappointement ! November 17, 2008
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...
 Keeps you turning the pages September 9, 2008
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Jim 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 is similar to that of Harlan Coben's and the cliffhanger endings to each chapter keep you wanting to read just one more. There are a lot of different strands to the book (at least one of which is a total red herring), and while parts of the mystery are quite predictable, there were a couple of twists that I definitely didn't spot in advance. The final resolution is somewhat far-fetched (so often the case with this genre), but overall it's a clever story that's been well thought through. The central narrator is likeable and the relationship with his teenage son feels very believable.
I do have one significant criticism of this book and it's hard to explain it without giving anything away, but there's one central secret that someone has kept because they thought they would be compromised and I just didn't believe that they would have felt the need to do that. However I still really enjoyed Too Close To Home. I read this book when I was in hospital recently and it was the perfect lightweight diversion. If you like Harlan Coben's books, I'm pretty sure that you will enjoy this too.
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