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A sleepy suburb turns into a quagmire of suspicion and threats, and things darken and turn dangerous before Barclay s surprise ending. - Woman s Day Harlan Coben has some serious competition from Linwood Barclay. This is a high-speed, exciting thriller that is very difficult to put down once started. The plot twists around like a slippery eel and after a series of false clues delivers a surprising outcome. - The Canberra Times A thriller with real bite in its finale. - The Daily Telegraph It s not often a crime novel moves me to tears in a good way. No Time for Goodbye had just that effect and I ve been working out how Linwood Barclay did it ever since. One possibility has to do with the artful symmetry of the plot: the pay-off is perfect and the formal aesthetics of a well-executed crime novel can be moving in and of themselves. What tips the emotional scales, however, is the unsentimental and acutely observed way in which this psychological thriller deals with the ties that bind and drive families apart Not a single character nor detail is wasted in this tightly constructed thriller If Clint Eastwood were looking for the next best crime novel for screen adaptation since Michael Connelly s Blood Work or Dennis Lehane s Mystic River, he could do worse than option the Barclay." - The Sydney Morning Herald