screenwriter and author of national bestseller
Cold Storage"Barclay has done a brilliant job of structuring Take Your Breath Away - a little bit of information here, an oh-wow there, some misdirection, a clue to see how closely the reader is paying attention. You think you've figured it out, you haven't figured it out." -
Winnipeg Free Press"Suspenseful....The story will suck you in from the first chapter." -
AARP Magazine on Take Your Breath Away"An especially good read. The author keeps us guessing right up until the end.... Motives are hinted at and secrets gradually revealed, leading to an ending that will knock your socks off."
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Booklist"In typical Barclay fashion, subplots and characters weave together in a tight, satisfying story. Perfect for fans of suspense novels by Harlan Coben and Lisa Gardner." -
Library Journal"An infectious thriller--one of Barclay's best." -
Kirkus Reviews on Take Your Breath Away"Linwood Barclay has plenty of surprises up his sleeve that will have your head spinning.... Brilliantly crafted.... As the title states, prepare to have your breath taken away!" -
Bookreporter.com on Take Your Breath Away"[A] well-paced standalone...Barclay shifts among multiple viewpoints to keep the tension high.... Everyone is a plausible suspect, and the disparate plot pieces eventually fit together with the precision of a Chinese puzzle box. Barclay reliably entertains."
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Publishers Weekly on Take Your Breath Away"Another fantastic suspense novel from Linwood Barclay..
.. I could not stop reading this book once I picked it up. Perfect for fans of Harlan Coben and Chevy Stevens." -
San Francisco Book Review on Take Your Breath Away"Barclay fills the pages with believable characters whose actions and motivations convince, and tells his story with page-turning intensity, and suspense that is maintained throughout. The narrative twists and turns, and Barclay seeds it with subtle red herrings that take the plot down paths that seem to lead to a clear solution, until it twists again and again keeping the reader guessing to the last page.... A gripping page-turner of a read. " -
Strand Magazine on Take Your Breath Away"Barclay's imaginative plotting... bears a great resemblance to that of Harlan Coben.
Take Your Breath Away is the best Linwood Barclay puzzle mystery that I've read in some time. He is constantly coming up with surprise after surprise throughout the whole narrative. Great escape reading!" -
Deadly Pleasures Magazine"You just can't go wrong with Linwood Barclay. He's proven time and again just how good he is.... You'll find yourself turning the pages so fast that you have to be careful you don't rip them. Easily one of Barclay's best." -
The Current on Take Your Breath Away"[A] fun page turner." -
Book Riot on Take Your Breath Away"Perhaps only John Grisham is his equal in creating show-stealing supporting characters." -
Sunday Times (London)"
Find You First starts with a bang and ends with an even bigger one. Barclay is a terrific writer, but he's outdone himself with this. It's the best book of his career. I couldn't put it down, and you won't be able to, either. If you enjoy thrillers, this is the real deal. It never lets up." -
Stephen King"Prolific novelist Linwood Barclay delivers a clever twist on an old trope . . . Science meets megalomania in this up-to-date nifty entertainment." -
Washington Post"[
Find You First] is not only [Barclay's] best work to date, but definitely the thriller of the summer.
It has a gloriously insane ending that would be a beauty for a movie adaptation." -
Florida Times-Union
