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International and Sunday Times bestseller Linwood Barclay returns with a white-knuckle thriller of an everyday man whose life takes an extraordinary turn...
Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents' home, he's shocked to find his father and a woman he assumes is his mother in bed. Dead. At first glance it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father, but on closer inspection there's clearly more to the story. For starters, inconsistencies at the crime scene suggest that his dad may not have shot himself.
As Reece, shaken by his horrifying discovery, awaits questioning from the police, his phone lights up. It's a call from his mum - his real mum. The dead woman in that bed is clearly not the person Reece believed her to be.
His mum is at a lunch date with friends, she says, and can't reach his dad on the phone. Could Reece drop by and see if everything's okay? At a loss for how to tell his mum that his dad was in bed with another woman, Reece simply tells her, ‘Come home now'.
But his mum doesn't come home. Instead, she disappears. Was she involved? Was she seeking revenge on her husband and a mistress? Or, just as frightening, did someone kill Reece's father and that woman, thinking that they'd murdered both his parents?
Soon Reece finds himself questioning how well he really knew his parents - who they were, what they did, and who they hurt.
Most importantly, he needs to figure out who might want to hurt him and his own family now.
Sunday Times bestseller Linwood Barclay returns with a break-neck thriller about families, secrets and betrayal.
Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents' home, he's shocked to find his father and a woman he assumes is his mother in bed. Dead. At first glance it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father, but on closer inspection there's clearly more to the story. For starters, inconsistencies at the crime scene suggest that his dad may not have shot himself.
As Reece, shaken by his horrifying discovery, awaits questioning from the police, his phone lights up. It's a call from his mum - his real mum. The dead woman in that bed is clearly not the person Reece believed her to be.
His mum is at a lunch date with friends, she says, and can't reach his dad on the phone. Could Reece drop by and see if everything's okay? At a loss for how to tell his mum that his dad was in bed with another woman, Reece simply tells her, ‘Come home now'.
But his mum doesn't come home. Instead, she disappears. Was she involved? Was she seeking revenge on her husband and a mistress? Or, just as frightening, did someone kill Reece's father and that woman, thinking that they'd murdered both his parents?
Soon Reece finds himself questioning how well he really knew his parents - who they were, what they did, and who they hurt.
Most importantly, he needs to figure out who might want to hurt him and his own family now.
Sunday Times bestseller Linwood Barclay returns with a break-neck thriller about families, secrets and betrayal.