17 Best Linwood Barclay Books

Map-obsessed shut-in Thomas spends his days roaming a street-view website and memorizing cities. When he spots what looks like a woman being murdered in a Manhattan window, his brother Ray reluctantly checks it out, only to trigger a deadly chain of events involving political power brokers and hired killers.

Jobless reporter David Harwood returns to Promise Falls and finds his cousin Marla caring for a baby she insists was left by an angel. When the child’s real mother turns up murdered, David’s attempt to help exposes buried secrets in his own family and signals that something is very wrong in town.

At fourteen, Cynthia wakes to find her parents and brother gone without a trace. Twenty-five years later, married with a daughter, she agrees to revisit the cold case on television. Anonymous messages, eerie sightings, and fresh violence suggest someone knows exactly what happened that night.

When a series of elevator crashes in Manhattan kills dozens over three terrifying days, the city grinds to a halt. As a hard-nosed journalist and two detectives dig into sabotage, they uncover political grudges, extremist threats, and a plot timed to a skyscraper’s grand opening.

Six years after Andy Mason’s wife Brie vanished while he was on a fishing trip, a woman who looks just like her appears at their old address, demanding to know what happened to her house. The brief sighting upends Andy’s rebuilt life and reignites police, media, and family suspicions.

College professor Paul Davis survives a brutal attack after stumbling on a colleague dumping bodies. Months later, while struggling with trauma, he begins hearing an old typewriter clacking in the night and suspects it is linked to the murders, even as those around him fear he is losing his mind.

Tim Blake’s teenage daughter Sydney fails to return from her summer job at a local hotel, and the manager insists she was never on the payroll. Desperate, Tim uncovers lies in Syd’s life and threats from dangerous men, racing to find her before whoever took her silences her for good.

Reporter David Harwood takes his wife and young son to an amusement park, but Jan vanishes between the gate and their car. When security footage and credit card records don’t match his story, David becomes the prime suspect and must dig into his wife’s hidden past to clear his name.

After a drive-in movie screen collapses and kills several people in Promise Falls, a victim’s daughter hires Cal Weaver to investigate a break-in at her father’s house. A hidden room, missing DVDs, and a series of linked murders draw Cal and Detective Barry Duckworth toward a dark townwide secret.

On May 23, Promise Falls is hit by catastrophe as hundreds fall ill from poisoned water and many die. While the town reels, Barry Duckworth hunts a serial killer targeting women, and Cal Weaver searches for who could benefit from mass murder in this finale to the Promise Falls trilogy.

In the small town of Promise Falls, the Cutter family’s neighbors are gunned down in their own house. As police hunt for a motive, father Jim and his teenage son Derek realize their own secrets might connect to the murders and that the intended targets may have been next door.

Tech millionaire Miles Cookson has been diagnosed with a terminal genetic illness and learns he likely fathered several children through sperm donation. As he and one of his newfound offspring, Chloe, start searching for the others, they discover someone is eliminating his potential heirs one by one.

Contractor Glen Garber’s wife dies in a late-night car wreck that police blame on drunk driving. Convinced she was not a secret drinker, Glen looks into her last days and discovers a tangle of counterfeit goods, desperate neighbors, and ruthless criminals that now threaten him and his young daughter.

Struggling novelist Jack Givins is hired by the U.S. Marshals to invent backstories for people in witness protection, only to realize one of them is his long-vanished father. As he digs, Jack uncovers missing witnesses, old mob grudges, and a plan that could use him as bait.

After a hit-and-run kills her husband and a scandal wrecks her career, children’s author Annie Blunt moves with her young son to a quiet upstate town. When the boy discovers an old model train set in their shed, eerie noises and terrifying visions suggest the toy carries something truly malevolent.

Still grieving his son’s death, private investigator Cal Weaver gives a rain-soaked teen girl a lift when she taps on his car window, saying she knew his boy. The ride leads to a missing-person case, a dead classmate, and a web of small-town corruption Cal can’t walk away from.

Seven years after surviving the events of No Time for Goodbye, Terry and Cynthia Archer are living apart and struggling with their trauma. When their teenage daughter Grace follows her boyfriend into a supposedly empty house, she stumbles into a crime that drags the whole family back into danger.