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    No Time for Goodbye3

    Mark Thwaite

    **A Richard and Judy summer Read 2008**


    Linwood Barclay's gripping and pacey thriller, No Time for Goodbye, starts out wonderfully well -- and then just keeps ratcheting up the tension. The conceit is wonderful: one day Cynthia Archer awakes to an eerily empty house. Twenty-five years she has built a new life but she still doesn't know what happened to her family. Not until she makes the mistake of taking part in a TV programme about the disappearance that is ...


    The book suffers from many of the usual cliches of even the best thrillers and, sadly, it doesn't quite keep the pace or intrigue up right until the last page, but it's a genuinely chilling book in parts and, without doubt, a great read.


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    On the morning she will never forget, suburban teenager Cynthia Archer awakes with a nasty hangover and a feeling she is going to have an even nastier confrontation with her mom and dad. But when she leaves her bedroom, she discovers the house is empty, with no sign of her parents or younger brother Todd. In the blink of an eye, without any explanation, her family has simply disappeared. Twenty-five years later Cynthia is still haunted by unanswered questions. Were her family murdered? If so, why was she spared? And if they're alive, why did they abandon her in such a cruel way? Now married with a daughter of her own, Cynthia fears that her new family will be taken from her just as her first one was. And so she agrees to take part in a TV documentary revisiting the case, in the hope that somebody somewhere will remember something - or even that her father, mother or brother might finally reach out to her... Then a letter arrives which makes no sense and yet chills Cynthia to the core. And soon she begins to realise that stirring up the past could be the worst mistake she has ever made...

    by Mark Thwaite

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