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Amazon Exclusive: Lisa Gardner Reviews Fear the Worst Lisa Gardner is the New York Times bestselling author of eleven novels, including Say Goodbye and The Neighbor. She lives with her husband and daughter in New England. She is currently at work on her next thriller, Live to Tell, which will be publish in 2010. Read her exclusive Amazon guest review of Fear the Worst: Linwood Barclay is a #1 bestselling crime novelist in Britain and a major European suspense star. So when I received the advanced reading copy of his latest novel, Fear the Worst, my first reaction was guiltâ??what rock have I been hiding under that Iâ??ve never heard of an author who counts Michael Connelly, Tess Gerritsen, and Joseph Finder among his fans? My next response was sheer anticipation. Thereâ??s nothing better than discovering a great new author. I immediately cracked open Fear the Worst, hoping for the best. Long and short of itâ??Barclay delivers on the hype. Fear the Worst starts with one of the better opening lines Iâ??ve read in a while: â??The morning of the day I lost her, my daughter asked me to scramble her some eggs.â? Itâ??s such a simple sentence, speaking of everyday domesticity. You can picture a father. You can picture a daughter. Yet youâ??re already filled with dread. A bad thing has happened. And yeah, for the next four hundred pages, the bad thing gets a lot worse. This tension-filled dichotomy of an ordinary man caught in extraordinary circumstances isnâ??t new territory. Harlan Coben would be drawn to this plot, not to mention a few others. But Barclay writes with a voice thatâ??s all his own. His ordinary man, Timothy Blake, is at that middle-aged point in life where heâ??s racking up more losses than wins. First marriage has collapsed. Car dealership went down the drain. Parenting a teenage daughter remains a mystery. Blake is a man whoâ??s down but not out, which makes his efforts to find his missing daughter realistic, compelling and completely nerve-wracking. The supporting cast is equally well-done: the prickly ex-wife; the daughterâ??s troubled BFF; the female detective who seems to spend most of her time on the phone dealing with her own kid. Barclay excels at creating people you immediately recognize, and even if you donâ??t like them all, you understand them. He also stays true to his characters; Blake doesnâ??t magically turn into Rambo just because bad guys are now trying to gun him down. The prickly ex-wife doesnâ??t suddenly crave reconciliation, just because theyâ??re now working together to find their child. By not taking the easy road, Barclay sets the stage for several shocking plot twists, not to mention one helluva dramatic climax. Previous Barclay fans should enjoy this fast-paced outing. And if youâ??ve been hiding under a rock like me, time to crawl out and discover a great new author. â??Lisa Gardner Read More

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    Your daughter doesnâ??t come home one night from her summer job.
    You go there looking for her. No oneâ??s seen here. But itâ??s worse than that.
    No oneâ??s ever seen her. So where has she been going every day? And where is she now?

    In Linwood Barclayâ??s riveting new thriller, an ordinary manâ??s desperate search for his daughter leads him into a dark world of corruption, exploitation, and murder. Tim Blake is about to learn that the people you think you know best are the ones harboring the biggest secrets.

    Tim is an average guy. He sells cars. He has an ex-wife. Sheâ??s moved in with a man whose moody son spends more time online than he should. His girlfriend is turning out to be a bit of a flake. Itâ??s not a life without hassles, but nothing will prepare Tim for the nightmare thatâ??s about to begin.

    Sydney vanishes into thin air. At the hotel where she supposedly worked, no one has ever heard of her. Even her closest friends seem to be at a loss. Now, as the days pass without word, Tim must face the fact that not only is Sydney missing, but that the daughter heâ??s loved and thought he knew is a virtual stranger.

    As he retraces Sydneyâ??s steps, Tim discovers that the suburban Connecticut town he always thought of as idyllic is anything but. What he doesnâ??t know is that his every move is being watched. There are others who want to find Syd as much as Tim does.

    But theyâ??re not planning a Welcome Home party.

    The closer Tim comes to the truth, the closer he comes to every parentâ??s worst nightmareâ??and the kind of evil only a parentâ??s love has a chance in hell of stopping.

  • 0553807161
  • 9780553807165
  • Linwood Barclay
  • 1 August 2009
  • Bantam
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 416
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