In the market for a thriller that keeps you turning pages, long past your bedtime, deep into the night? One of those books that grips and doesn’t let go as each plot twist tightens the screw and ratches up the tension?
If that’s your bag, you want to stuff it to bursting with Linwood Barclay’s books. The internationally bestselling US-born, Canada-based killer-thriller king is the master of the propulsive read. His thrillers, between them, have sold millions of copies and his fans include Stephen King.
Linwood’s latest book The Lie Maker, is classic Barclay – a twisty, faced-paced thriller that keeps its reader guessing right to the end. It plunges the reader into the treacherous world struggling writer Jack Givens discovers when he is approached to write past histories for people taken into the Witness Protection Scheme. Jack uses this as an opportunity to track down his own father, a criminal, who has been missing from Jack’s life since he was taken into witness protection when Jack was a child. From this point, threats and danger begin to close in on Jack, with the reader desperate to find out how one cliffhanger after another will play out…
‘A couple of things kind of came together for the book,’ says Linwood, from Toronto, sitting at his desk on Zoom. ‘I’d been thinking about a story with the
