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No Safe House
Author:
Barclay, Linwood
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Class:
Fiction
Age: Adult
Language: English
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LC: PR9199.3
Print Run: 100000
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ISBN-13: 9780451414205
LCCN: 2013046120
Imprint: New American Library
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Pub Date: 08/05/2014
Availability: Out of Print Confirmed
List: $25.95
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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453 pages ; 24 cm
H 9.25",
W 6.25",
D 1.5",
1.5375 lbs.
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's Blockbuster List
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Adult
Brodart's TOP Adult Titles
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Bibliographies:
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Fiction Core Collection, 20th ed.
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TIPS Subjects:
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Suspense/Thriller
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BISAC Subjects: |
FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
FICTION / Thrillers / Crime
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LC Subjects:
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FICTION / Suspense
Murder, Investigation, Fiction
Murderers, Fiction
Mystery fiction
Older people, Crimes against, Fiction
Suspense fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Adventure fiction
Criminal investigation, Fiction
Elderly, Fiction
Homicide, Fiction
Mystery fiction
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| Brodart's TOP Adult Titles | 05/01/2014 |
| A family torn asunder fights to survive in the wake of two local elderly victims' nonsensical deaths when Terry Archer and his family, still plagued by the horrors that befell them nearly a decade ago, face the criminal who once saved their lives. If only Grace hadn't followed her troublesome boyfriend into that mysterious house. 464pp., 100K, Auth res: Oakville, Ontario, Canada |
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| Booklist | 08/01/2014 |
| In Barclay's 2008 thriller No Time for Goodbye, a woman discovers the truth about the disappearance of her family, a quarter of a century earlier, when she was a rebellious teenager. It's a gripping, haunting novel, and this new sequel, set seven years later, tries very hard to replicate it. Cynthia Archer is still attempting to deal with what she learned about her parents' disappearance and about herself, but she's not having much success: she's living apart from her husband and her daughter, Grace, unable to put her memories in the past. When Grace becomes caught up in a desperate situation, which could be connected to some recent home invasions, Cynthia's husband, Terry, realizes he is the only one who can save his family--again. This is a solid, well-written thriller, but it doesn't quite hit the same dramatic heights as No Time for Goodbye, which is one of Barclay's best books. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Yes, Barclay is a veteran of best-seller lists, but here's another yardstick of his stature: when Stephen King joined Twitter, @Linwood_Barclay was one of the first 16 people he followed. Pitt, David. 512p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2014. |
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| Library Journal | 08/08/2014 |
| A Connecticut town becomes Murder Central in this sequel set seven years after Barclay's 2008 best-selling No Time for Goodbye, in which Cynthia Archer learned the truth about the sudden disappearance of her parents and brother that occurred 25 years earlier, when she was 14. Here she's still dealing with that trauma. Her own daughter, Grace, is now 14, and Cynthia has become such a helicopter mom that she's temporarily moved out of the family home, leaving her husband, Terry, to handle things. One night Grace inadvertently becomes involved in the money-making scheme of career criminal Vince Fleming, Cynthia's former high school friend, at the same time that people who want something that Vince may have will go to any lengths to get it. As Terry tries to protect Grace while still doing what's right, he's pulled into the mayhem that ensues as the body count hits double digits. Verdict Despite the plethora of coincidences and remarkably few degrees of separation among characters, this is a welcome return to the Archer family. A compulsively readable thriller that's likely to be another hit for Barclay.-Michele Leber, Arlington, VA. 464p. LJ Xpress Online Review. LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2014. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 06/09/2014 |
| Seven years after barely surviving the terrors of No Time for Goodbye (2007), the Archer family of Milford, Conn., once again tempts fate in this darkly comic if decidedly creepy thriller from Arthur Ellis Award winner Barclay. History seems to be repeating itself as mom Cynthia fights to set limits on 14-year-old Grace, who defies her--much as the rebellious 14-year-old Cynthia herself did the night she got drunk with local hood Vince Fleming and her parents and brother disappeared. But Grace's latest lapse in judgment--agreeing to joyride with pistol-packing bad boy Stuart Koch, whose father assists the now-grown Vince--plunges the entire clan into a deadly perfect storm of greed, violence, dog walkers, and ruthless rival crooks at cross-purposes. The twisty, craftily-plotted action accelerates along with the body count, providing plenty of suspense and a surprising number of laughs--for readers willing to tolerate very bad things befalling some pretty good people. Five-city author tour. Agent: Helen Heller, Helen Heller Agency (Canada). (Aug.). 512p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2014. |
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