No Time For Goodbye

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• No Time for Goodbye

  A happy marriage and a beloved daughter mask Cynthia's traumatic past. When she was 14, her entire family disappeared and now, following a television programme about this old unsolved mystery, she has received unsettling messages suggesting they are ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

• No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay

  Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge is in a rebellious teen period, and she gets mixed up with an older teen Bad Boy. Her father pulls her out of the car and into their house. Cynthia gets sick from the alcohol she’s drunk and passes out. The next mornin ... (read full critics)

  themysteryreader published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

3 Reviews

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  Riveting book. Moves along quickly and really keeps you thinking trying to work out what's happening. It's a thriller with heart, and true page turner.

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  Easy read thriller, kept you guessing!

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  And the award goes to...
  The book has just been voted "Summer Read 2008" by Richard & Judy Book Club. (22 August 2008)

  I found this a fast-paced thriller primarily written in the voice of Cynthia’s husband, Terry, which gathers even more momentum in the second half of the book when Terry ... (continue)

  And the award goes to...
  The book has just been voted "Summer Read 2008" by Richard & Judy Book Club. (22 August 2008)

  I found this a fast-paced thriller primarily written in the voice of Cynthia’s husband, Terry, which gathers even more momentum in the second half of the book when Terry tries to unravel the events around the sudden disappearance of Cynthia’s family 25 years ago by hooking up with Cynthia’s ex-boyfriend, Vincent (apparently the last one to have seen Cynthia that very night). I absolutely loved the book and thought the dual narrative was very intriguing. Sometimes a happy family life is just not what it seems to be…!

  Synopsis
  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...

  About the Author
  Linwood Barclay is married with two children and lives in Toronto. He has written a popular column for the Toronto Star since 1993.

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• English Books
• Paperback 448 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0752893688
• ISBN-13: 9780752893686
• Publisher: Orion
• Pub date: Jun 12, 2008
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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