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Never Look Away (2010)

by Linwood Barclay(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

055380717X (ISBN13: 9780553807172)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Delacorte Press

review 1: Having read and loved "Gone Girl" this book was recommended. It's main similarity is the theme of you never really know a person even if you're married to them. About half way through the book I thought I had figured out who this woman really was and I was right but the writer continued another branch of the story which I did not see coming. Though it is not Gone Girl it did give me the same frightened feeling of you don't know who another person really is.
review 2: I just finished "Never Look Away", my second Linwood Barclay thriller within the last week and a half, and it's a dandy. David Harwood is a reporter for a struggling upstate New York newspaper, who lives an ordinary life in an ordinary community. David wants to write real stories about timely top... moreics, but the newspaper's ownership wants to go into a different direction. Lately David has been investigating some possible kickbacks to city council members by a corporation that wants to build and maintain a private "for-profit" prison in this ordinary town. Interestingly enough, the prison company may look to build on land owned by the newspaper, which is trying to hang on to dear life. They've already outsourced a lot of their reporting and David's snooping hasn't exactly endeared him to management. Selling land to the prison corporation would enhance the newspaper's bottom line and make it more attractive to possible buyers. On a warm summer day David, his wife Jan, and their young son have a family outing planned at a nearby amusement park and life couldn't be better, at least for today. Then suddenly tragedy hits! First, David and Jan can't find their son's stroller at the park. They search frantically and they eventually locate him, snug and sound asleep in the stroller, but a mysterious man is seen running away as they approach. Then almost in the blink of an eye David loses track of Jan and everything about his life unravels. He can't find her anywhere, the park security is on high alert, and the cops are called in. As one might expect, it doesn't take long for the lead detective to cast a suspicious eye upon the husband. David decides to do his own investigative work and some startling revelations cause him to wonder if Jan is perhaps not the woman he thinks she is. This is only my second Barclay book and he's an author I plan to stick with. His protagonists are average, unremarkable guys, who through no fault of their own, find themselves in horrific circumstances. less

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