Not a Word

In the latest chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a man''s world is upended after he finds his father and a woman who isn''t his mother dead in the family home--and his mother goes missing. Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents'' home he''s shocked to find his father and a woman he assumes is his mother in bed. Dead. At first glance it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father, but on closer inspection there''s clearly more to the story. For starters, inconsistencies in the crime scene suggest his dad may not have shot himself. As Reece, shaken by his horrifying discovery, awaits questioning from the police, his phone lights up. It''s a call from his mom--his real mom. The dead woman in that bed is clearly not the person Reece believed her to be. His mom is at a lunch date with friends, she says, and can''t raise her husband on the phone. Could Reece drop by and see if everything''s okay? At a loss for how to tell his mother her husband is dead in bed with another woman, Reece simply tells her: "Come home now." But instead of rushing home, she disappears. Could she have been involved? Was she seeking revenge on her husband and a mistress? Or, just as frightening, did someone kill Reece''s father and that woman, thinking wrongly that Reece''s mother had been dispatched? And what might this grisly scene have to do with the unscrupulous pharma company Reece''s father worked for years ago? Soon Reece finds himself questioning how well he really knew his parents--who they were, what they did, and who they hurt. Most importantly, he needs to figure out who might want to hurt him and his own family now.

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Linwood Barclay is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous previous novels and two thrillers for children. His books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. He wrote the screenplay adaptation for his novel Never Saw It Coming and his books The Accident and *No Time for Goodbye *have been made into TV series in France. *No Time for Goodbye *was a global bestseller. A native of Connecticut, he now lives in Toronto with his wife, Neetha.

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In the latest chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a man’s world is upended after he stumbles upon a grisly crime scene in the family home.

Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents’ house, he’s shocked to find them in bed, dead. At first glance it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father, but on closer inspection there’s clearly more to the story. For starters, inconsistencies in the crime scene suggest his dad may not have shot himself.

As Reece, shaken by his horrifying discovery, awaits questioning from the police, his phone lights up with a call. It’s the last person he ever would have expected to hear from.

Reeling from the day’s events, Reece finds himself questioning everything he thought he knew about his parents—and whether he and his own family are in danger now. While the authorities work to untangle the baffling crime scene, Reece is pulled into a web of secrets linked to the unscrupulous pharma company his father worked for years ago.

In order to protect the people he loves most, he’ll have to dig deep into his own past to understand who his parents were, what they did, and who they hurt—before he ends up paying for their sins.