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Too Close to Home

By: Linwood Barclay
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
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About this listen

 When the Cutter family's next-door neighbours, the Langleys, are gunned down in their house one hot August night, the Cutters' world is turned upside down. That violent death should have come so close to them is shocking enough in suburban Promise Falls, but at least the Cutters can console themselves with the thought that lightning is unlikely to strike twice in the same place. Unless, of course, the killers went to the wrong house . . .

At first the idea seems crazy - but each of the Cutter family has a secret they'd rather keep buried. What was on that old computer teenage Derek and his friend Adam Langley had salvaged? And where is it now? What hold does a local professor and bestselling author have on Ellen Cutter? And what does Jim Cutter know about Mrs Langley that even her husband didn't?

To find out who killed the Langleys and why, everybody's secrets are going to have to come out. But the final secret - the secret that could save them or destroy them - is in the one place nobody would ever think of looking . . .

Read by Christopher Lane

(p) 2009 Brilliance Audio©2009 Linwood Barclay Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Exciting

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This is a well crafted story which is effortlessly brought to life by naturally flowing narration.

Well worth the credit spend

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I can’t wait to read the next book about Promise Falls. A very gripping book.

An excellent read

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love it book enjoy ever minutes of it. going listen to again and again again

to close to home

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For some reason I just didn't get into this one the same way I have with all other Linwood Barclay books, and it is difficult to pick out the specific reason. I am not saying that this is a bad read in any way, in my view it is just not up to Linwood's usual exceptional standards.

Not bad..

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I seem to be in the minority among these reviews. Unfortunately this Barclay offering was, for me, a poor offering and nowhere near the standard of some of his others. Lane narrated it very well, if at times his delivery is robotic when trying to convey certain emotions. The story carried no characters with whom I could fully engage with and the plot was mediocre and obvious. It simply lacked oomph. I don't feel I have wasted a credit but this listen is entirely forgettable.

Entirely forgettable

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