The Accident

Barclay, Linwood

ISBN 10: 1531887627 ISBN 13: 9781531887629

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2016

It’s the new normal at the Garber household in Connecticut: Glen, a contractor, has seen his business shaken by the housing crisis, and now his wife, Sheila, is taking a business course at night to increase her chances of landing a good-paying job. But she should have been home by now.Waiting for Sheila’s return, with their eight-year-old daughter sleeping soundly, Glen soon finds his worst fears confirmed: Sheila and two others have been killed in a car accident. Adding to the tragedy, the police claim Sheila was responsible.Glen knows it’s impossible. When he investigates, Glen begins to uncover layers of lawlessness beneath the placid surface of their suburb, secret after dangerous secret behind the closed doors.Propelled into a vortex of corruption and illegal activity, pursued by mysterious killers, and confronted by threats from neighbors he thought he knew, Glen must take his own desperate measures and go to terrifying new places in himself to avenge his wife and protect his child.Bold and timely, with the shocking twists and startling insights that have become trademarks of this new master of domestic suspense, The Accident is a riveting triumph, a book that moves at a breathless pace to a climax no one will see coming.

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Review

A fast moving thriller with a plethora of twists and turns... The Accident features dodgy handbag sales, shoddy construction work and a host of secret villains. Great fun! (THE BOOKSELLER)

Barclay is such an old pro that you feel he can now write these terrific thrillers standing on his head. His great talent is to infuse the most everyday things - the theme of this novel is the business of knock-off designer bags - with extraordinary menace. (Carla McKay DAILY MAIL)

Barclay excels at unnerving the middle classes (THE GUARDIAN)

Once again, Linwood Barclay proves himself the master of pressure cooker suspense: using economic hardship and strained family relations, he tightens the screws on an already tense situation. Fraught characters encourage sympathy as they fight for their lives and a credible plot hook - the selling of pirated goods - makes this a nail-biting read with an unguessable twist. (Christopher Fowler FINANCIAL TIMES)