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Too Close to Home | 
| Author: Linwood Barclay
Publisher: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 64988
Media: Paperback
Edition: Export ed
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0752897403
EAN: 9780752897400
ASIN: 0752897403
Publication Date: September 4, 2008
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 THE NIGHT THEY KILLED OUR NEIGHBORS, WE NEVER HEARD A THING December 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Experienced and excellent best describes narrator Christopher Lane. He has read more than 150 audio books - thus, you name the genre and he can personify it. He's taken home an Audie Award and an Audiofile Earphones Award - with Too Close To Home he takes listeners on an 11 hour journey as psyches are probed and the unthinkable happens.
Promise Falls is a small town in upstate New York. It's unlike other towns in that area as a triple murder has just been committed, a family is shot to death in what should have been the safety of their home. It was a hot, steamy summer night when the Langley's and their son, Adam, died. Despite the proximity of their homes and the stillness of the night their next-door neighbors, Jim and Ellen Cutter did not hear a thing.
The Cutters believed they knew their neighbors; their sons had been friends; they shared neighborhood gatherings. All of Promise Falls was shocked by this heinous crime, unable to comprehend how it could have happened. If the entire populace is stunned, think how the Cutters might have felt? What is going through their minds?
Author Barclay has crafted a compelling psychological journey. Might Jim Cutter be wondering if the killers had gone to the wrong house, fearing what might happen next? As for Ellen, what of her? Has she kept things from both Jim and herself?
Another explosive page-turner from Linwood Barclay.
- Gail Cooke
 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
15 out of 15 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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