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A Tap on the Window

An electrifying and unputdownable thriller from the international bestselling author

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A Tap on the Window

By: Linwood Barclay
Narrated by: Mark Zeisler
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About this listen

 When Cal Weaver stops at a red light on a rainy night while driving home, he ignores the bedraggled-looking teenage girl trying to hitch a ride - even when she starts tapping on his window. But when he realises she's one of his son's classmates, he knows he can't really leave her, alone, on the street.

But nothing prepares him for the consequences of trying to help her out. The next morning he's gone from Good Samaritan to Murder Suspect, and with one girl dead and another missing, he's suddenly at the centre of a deadly puzzle that reaches right to the heart of the town - from its bullying police force to its strangely furtive mayor - and finally to one family's shocking secret.

Read by Mark Zeisler

(p) 2013 Recorded Books LLC©2013 Linwood Barclay Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Exciting Scary

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A tap on the window

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Brilliant as always - would never have guessed the ending here! Wonderfully written and very well-developed characters who I truly cared about. The plot was believable but crazy and I could NOT put this down. Excellent.

Linwood Barclay does it again

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Enjoyable “who done it “, with a simple to follow plot but with a twist you don’t see coming , but is still logical . All the loose ends are nicely sewn up by the end , although the body count seems unnecessarily high, and the motivations of the “ baddies” do seem to go off piste a little , but still it’s an entertaining story , it does move at a decent pace with clues emerging as it goes. It’s not great literature but it’s a solid crime novel .

Good who dun it , with a twist

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Linwood Barclay has written some gripping thrillers but this isn't one of them. It takes nearly 9 hours of listening padded out by inconsequential details for the momentum to get going. It's a thin story that depends on some stupid decisions by the main character mixed with the fallout from his son's death a couple months earlier. The book did get better for the last few hours as the various strands of the narrative, that seemed unconnected, came together.
The narrator is very good.

I've listened to many audio books and this one has the longest silent pauses between chapters that I've ever come across. I kept thinking my player had turned off.

Slow to get going

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good story, good characterisation, very well read. Will look for more by this author. Recommended.

Good storyline

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