Never Look Away
Autor Linwood Barclayen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 iun 2011
It starts with a trip to a local amusement park. David Harwood is hoping a carefree day will help dispel his wife Jan's recent depression that has led to frightening thoughts of suicide. Instead, a day of fun with their son Ethan turns into a nightmare.
When Jan disappears from the park, David's worst fears seem to have come true. But when he goes to the police to report her missing, the facts start to indicate something very different. The park's records show that only two tickets were purchased, and CCTV shows no evidence that Jan ever entered the park at all. Suddenly David's story starts to look suspicious - and the police to wonder if Jan's already dead, murdered by her husband.
To prove his innocence and keep his son from being taken away from him, David is going to have to dig deep into the past and come face to face with a terrible childhood tragedy - but by doing that, he could risk destroying everything precious to him . . .
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780752883366
ISBN-10: 0752883364
Pagini: 528
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția Orion
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0752883364
Pagini: 528
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția Orion
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
Where has Linwood Barclay been all my life? His is the best thriller I've read in five years. Once I was 30 pages in, I literally couldn't put it down. The writing is crisp; the twists are jolting and completely unexpected. Think 'Rebecca' and you'll be in the right neighborhood.
More wriggles and twists than a bag full of snakes ... mind-blowingly good
`This has to be one of the most engrossing thrillers of the year ... the reader is swept up into the twisted plotting and held in total suspense until the final denouement.'
Author Linwood Barclay just gets better ... Tense and exciting
Expect the unexpected in this compelling, unputdownable best-seller.
another instalment of literary crime fiction so gripping it reads like a dirty airport thriller. Indeed, Barclay's latest is being hailed as his best - which is no small feat for the much-acclaimed author of No Time for Goodbye and Too Close to Home. ... A chilling triumph and a must-read.
More wriggles and twists than a bag full of snakes ... mind-blowingly good
`This has to be one of the most engrossing thrillers of the year ... the reader is swept up into the twisted plotting and held in total suspense until the final denouement.'
Author Linwood Barclay just gets better ... Tense and exciting
Expect the unexpected in this compelling, unputdownable best-seller.
another instalment of literary crime fiction so gripping it reads like a dirty airport thriller. Indeed, Barclay's latest is being hailed as his best - which is no small feat for the much-acclaimed author of No Time for Goodbye and Too Close to Home. ... A chilling triumph and a must-read.
Extras
Never Look Away teaser
Detective Duckworth and I headed north, but in under a mile he put on his blinker and turned down a narrow gravel road that went down, then up, winding all the time. The inside of Duckworth’s car smelled of french fries. The smell made me feel sick to my stomach.
Not far up ahead, several police cars and vans blocked our path.
“We’ll walk in from here,” Duckworth said, slowing and putting his car into park.
“Who saw this grave?” I asked. I’d felt my hands shaking a moment ago, and had grabbed the door handle with my right and tucked my left under my thigh, hoping Duckworth wouldn’t notice. I felt I needed to disguise how nervous I was, worried Duckworth would take that to mean I was guilty of something.
But wouldn’t any man, especially an innocent man whose wife was missing, be distraught after learning a body had been found?
“What the locals tell me,” Duckworth said, “is there’s a couple of cabins down at the end of this road, and a guy who lives in one of them spotted something suspicious at the side, went to check it out, realized what was buried there, and he called the police.”
“How long ago was this?”
“Couple of hours. Local cops secured the scene, then they contacted us. We’d already been in touch, putting them on alert about your wife.”
“I told you nothing happened with Jan when we were up here,” I said.
“You’ve made that very clear, Mr. Harwood.” He opened his door, then looked at me. “You can stay right here, if you’d like.”
“No,” I said. “If it’s Jan, I have to know.”
“Absolutely. Don’t think I don’t appreciate your assistance.”
We got out of the car and started up the road, the gravel crunching beneath our shoes. A uniformed officer coming from the direction of the crime scene approached.
“You Detective Duckworth?” he said.
Duckworth nodded and extended a hand. “Thanks for the quick heads up on this,” he said. The cop looked at me. Before I had a chance to introduce myself, Duckworth stepped in. “This is Mr. Harwood. He’s the one whose wife is missing.” The two of them exchanged a quick glance. I could only imagine what this cop had been told already.
“Mr. Harwood,” he said. “My name is Daltrey. I’m very sorry. This must be a very difficult time for you.”
“Is it my wife?” I asked. “I need to see.”
Duckworth reached over and lightly touched my arm. “I really don’t know that that’s a good idea.”
“Where’s the grave?” I asked.
Daltrey pointed. “Just beyond those cars, on the left side. We haven’t moved the body.”
Duckworth tightened his grip on me. “Let me go up there first. You wait here with Daltrey.”
“No,” I said, breathing in short gasps. “I have to -- ”
“You wait. If there’s a reason for you to come up, I’ll come back and get you.”
I looked him in the eye. I couldn’t get a read on him. I didn’t know whether he was trying to be compassionate here, or whether somehow I was being played.
“Okay,” I said.
As Duckworth went ahead Daltrey positioned himself in front of me, in case I decided to run after him. He smiled kindly. “Looks like it might rain.”
I walked back to Duckworth’s car, ambled around it a couple of times, always glancing back for him.
He was gone about five minutes, caught my eye, beckoned with his index finger. I ran over to him.
“If you’re up to it, I think it would help if you make an identification.”
“Oh God,” I said. I felt weak in the knees.
He gripped my arm. “I don’t know for certain that this is your wife, Mr. Harwood. But I think you need to be prepared for that fact.”
“It can’t be her,” I said. “There’s no reason for her to be up here…”
“Take a minute.”
I took a couple of breaths, swallowed, and said, “Show me.”
He led me between two police cars that had acted as a privacy shield. Once we got past them I looked to the left and where the opposite side of the ditch sloped up there was a five-foot ridge of earth. It was in full view of the road. Draped over the ridge was a pale, dirt-splotched white hand and part of an arm. Whoever that arm belonged to was on the other side of the dirt pile.
I stopped, and stared.
“Mr. Harwood?” Duckworth said.
I took another couple of breaths. “Okay,” I said.
“I can’t have you disturbing anything,” he said. “You can’t…touch her. Sometimes, people, when they’re overcome with grief…”
“I understand.”
He led me up to the grave. When we were close enough that we could see beyond the ridge, Duckworth stopped me.
“Here we are,” Duckworth said. I could feel him watching me.
I looked at the dirt-smeared face of the dead woman lying in that grave and fell to my knees, then pitched forward, catching myself with my hands.
“Oh God,” I said. “Oh God.”
From the Hardcover edition.
Detective Duckworth and I headed north, but in under a mile he put on his blinker and turned down a narrow gravel road that went down, then up, winding all the time. The inside of Duckworth’s car smelled of french fries. The smell made me feel sick to my stomach.
Not far up ahead, several police cars and vans blocked our path.
“We’ll walk in from here,” Duckworth said, slowing and putting his car into park.
“Who saw this grave?” I asked. I’d felt my hands shaking a moment ago, and had grabbed the door handle with my right and tucked my left under my thigh, hoping Duckworth wouldn’t notice. I felt I needed to disguise how nervous I was, worried Duckworth would take that to mean I was guilty of something.
But wouldn’t any man, especially an innocent man whose wife was missing, be distraught after learning a body had been found?
“What the locals tell me,” Duckworth said, “is there’s a couple of cabins down at the end of this road, and a guy who lives in one of them spotted something suspicious at the side, went to check it out, realized what was buried there, and he called the police.”
“How long ago was this?”
“Couple of hours. Local cops secured the scene, then they contacted us. We’d already been in touch, putting them on alert about your wife.”
“I told you nothing happened with Jan when we were up here,” I said.
“You’ve made that very clear, Mr. Harwood.” He opened his door, then looked at me. “You can stay right here, if you’d like.”
“No,” I said. “If it’s Jan, I have to know.”
“Absolutely. Don’t think I don’t appreciate your assistance.”
We got out of the car and started up the road, the gravel crunching beneath our shoes. A uniformed officer coming from the direction of the crime scene approached.
“You Detective Duckworth?” he said.
Duckworth nodded and extended a hand. “Thanks for the quick heads up on this,” he said. The cop looked at me. Before I had a chance to introduce myself, Duckworth stepped in. “This is Mr. Harwood. He’s the one whose wife is missing.” The two of them exchanged a quick glance. I could only imagine what this cop had been told already.
“Mr. Harwood,” he said. “My name is Daltrey. I’m very sorry. This must be a very difficult time for you.”
“Is it my wife?” I asked. “I need to see.”
Duckworth reached over and lightly touched my arm. “I really don’t know that that’s a good idea.”
“Where’s the grave?” I asked.
Daltrey pointed. “Just beyond those cars, on the left side. We haven’t moved the body.”
Duckworth tightened his grip on me. “Let me go up there first. You wait here with Daltrey.”
“No,” I said, breathing in short gasps. “I have to -- ”
“You wait. If there’s a reason for you to come up, I’ll come back and get you.”
I looked him in the eye. I couldn’t get a read on him. I didn’t know whether he was trying to be compassionate here, or whether somehow I was being played.
“Okay,” I said.
As Duckworth went ahead Daltrey positioned himself in front of me, in case I decided to run after him. He smiled kindly. “Looks like it might rain.”
I walked back to Duckworth’s car, ambled around it a couple of times, always glancing back for him.
He was gone about five minutes, caught my eye, beckoned with his index finger. I ran over to him.
“If you’re up to it, I think it would help if you make an identification.”
“Oh God,” I said. I felt weak in the knees.
He gripped my arm. “I don’t know for certain that this is your wife, Mr. Harwood. But I think you need to be prepared for that fact.”
“It can’t be her,” I said. “There’s no reason for her to be up here…”
“Take a minute.”
I took a couple of breaths, swallowed, and said, “Show me.”
He led me between two police cars that had acted as a privacy shield. Once we got past them I looked to the left and where the opposite side of the ditch sloped up there was a five-foot ridge of earth. It was in full view of the road. Draped over the ridge was a pale, dirt-splotched white hand and part of an arm. Whoever that arm belonged to was on the other side of the dirt pile.
I stopped, and stared.
“Mr. Harwood?” Duckworth said.
I took another couple of breaths. “Okay,” I said.
“I can’t have you disturbing anything,” he said. “You can’t…touch her. Sometimes, people, when they’re overcome with grief…”
“I understand.”
He led me up to the grave. When we were close enough that we could see beyond the ridge, Duckworth stopped me.
“Here we are,” Duckworth said. I could feel him watching me.
I looked at the dirt-smeared face of the dead woman lying in that grave and fell to my knees, then pitched forward, catching myself with my hands.
“Oh God,” I said. “Oh God.”
From the Hardcover edition.
Notă biografică
Linwood Barclay is a former columnist for the Toronto Star. He is the #1 internationally bestselling author of seven critically acclaimed novels, including Fear the Worst, Too Close to Home, and No Time for Goodbye, which has been optioned for a film. He lives near Toronto with his wife and has two grown children. He is currently at work on his latest thriller, The Accident, to be published by Bantam in Summer 2011.