Thrillers usually aren’t my cup of tea but this one did have me engrossed, wanting to know what was going to happen next. It was interesting to see how the different characters (as diverse as a thirty-something schizophrenic guy who travels the world using a computer program a la Google maps, the bisexual wife of a prospective governor and an ex-Olympic gymnast turned assassin) linked together.

However, when I finished, it just felt like I’d read a book that had the pretext of the movie Rear Wind More...

While Linwood Barclay is popular in our library, he still deserves to be as best-selling as Harlan Coben (which is why I said Barclay is the Rodney Dangerfield of thriller writers). He sides more on the domestic side of weird goings on such as disappearances, conspiracies, and murders, and his characters are always likeable every day kind of guys. This will make you look at Google Earth in a different and chilling way.

This is due in September.

Ray Kilbride finds his life turned upside down when the accidental death of his father means having to move back home to look after his adult brother Thomas, who has schizophrenia. Thomas believes he is doing important work relating the safety of the USA, but while studying a mapping website he thinks he sees a murder in New York. Ray is despatched to investigate – is there anything to be found, or is it all in his brother’s head?

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Superb from beginning to end. No wonder Stephen King gave TRUST YOUR EYES such a solid endorsement.

I had read some of Linwood Barclay's earlier novels and I believe this author has finally discovered himself. The prose is excellent. Humor comes more naturally now that he's not trying so hard anymore.

His novel is very well crafted. It flows smoothly at all times, despite the complex structure and the rather ambitious plot. His characters are outrageous but very real. Never once did I wake up from More...

After being disappointed by the last book (really an extended novella) I read by this author, it was good to sink back into a more vintage Barclay. He’s taken a great idea, just waiting to be written about and turned into an intricate weaving of two very different story lines that come together through mishap. It makes easy can’t wait to turn the next page reading.
Thomas and Ray are brothers whose father has just died. Thomas has a mental illness (described as schizophrenia but a lot more like More...

I've read other Linwood Barclay books that I've liked okay--but this one really hit me. (Either it's actually better or I was in the mood for this kind of book; it's a toss-up) Comparisons to Harlan Coben are spot on. The suspense builds at a slow burn and even after the resolution there's an incredibly chilling twist. Took my breath away. It wasn't extraordinarily well-read; one narrator handles Ray's first person tale while the other does all the third person parts, and I normally wouldn't the More...

Thomas spends his days on a software called Whirl360 which shows him all the maps in the world. He studies and memorizes them and then emails the government telling them how much he has memorized. Thomas's dad passed away and his brother, Ray, decided to live with him. Thomas finds something suspension and called Ray over and what they found was shocking; an image of a women being murdered. It turns out that the women in the image was mistakenly killed through many events that led up to it.

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Be prepared to stay up all night reading this book. It is considered an update of "Rear Window". The main characters are two brothers - Ray and Thomas Kilbride whose father has recently died. Thomas, who is described as schizophrenic spends all his time on the internet site "Whirl 360" memorizing each street in the major cities of the world. Ray, a magazine illustrator has come home to tie up his father's affairs and decide what to do about his brother who can not live alone. Thomas is obsessed More...

Barclay is one of my new favorite authors. Thomas and Ray Kilbride are adult brothers and their widowed father has just died. Ray is a successful graphic artist and Thomas has some form of autism (although never stated). The reader gets the idea quickly about Thomas. Thomas has never worked, still lived with his father, and spends his days working obsessively on his computer memorizing streets from a Google Earth-type program. Thomas is convinced that one day all the maps will disappear from the More...

I think one reason Linwood Barclay's books are so successful is that his characters are ordinary people, people like you and me. The things that happen to them, while threatening and sometimes fatal, are things that could happen to anyone. It's all a matter of coincidence, timing, and circumstances. His characters are just going about their daily life, when something they do intersects with something that someone dangerous is doing. And things move quickly from there.
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An interesting plot! Ray is an illustrator, specializing mostly in political cartoons. His father has recently died after his tractor mower rolled over him. Ray is back in his home town dealing with his father's estate. Ray's brother, Thomas is a schizophrenic who believes he has been contracted by the CIA to memorize maps of all the cities/towns in the world. He uses a special map program on the computer to travel on-line to do this and has maps posted on every wall in the upstairs of the house More...

Ray Kilbride returns to his hometown for his father’s funeral. His father, a widower, had been taking care of Ray’s brother, Thomas. Thomas is a bit obsessive compulsive, rarely leaves the house, and has a thing for maps. With the use of a program called “whirl360.com” he visits any city and country he wants and memorizes streets, buildings, details of various businesses. But in viewing one particular building in New York, he sees what looks like a woman with a plastic bag over her head. Thomas More...

TRUST YOUR EYES. (2012). Linwood Barclay. ****.
I don’t remember for sure, but I think I read a review of this thriller in Marilyn Stasio’s column in the New York Times Book Review. This is the first encounter I’ve had with this author, and I almost put it back into my library book bag when I realized it was 498-pages long. Another turn-off was the one-word blurb on the front cover from Stephen King: “Riveting.” This could have referred to the length or the weight of the book based on King’s typ More...

Let's see. When I read the blurb on the back of the book, my brain was a bit confused. Is this a great premise or a terrible one? A schizophrenic man is touring the virtual worlds of New York using a satellite mapping website called Google Maps Streetview Whirl360. Get it, because whirl...360. Eh. Anyhoo, while he's whirling around some street I can't remember he stumbled upon a blurry figure at a window. Turns out this blurry figure is actually a woman...BEING MURDERED! And so begins a zippy th More...

Trust Your Eyes, by Linwood Barclay, a-minus, Narrated by Ken Marks, and Rick Holmes, Produced by Recorded Books, downloaded from audible.com.

Ray Kilbride faces a challenge. He has a full-blown flourishing career as an illustrated writer particularly of political cartoons. But his dad suddenly dies as a result of an accident where the lawn mower tractor tips over while he is mowing the lawn. Ray is forced to come home to rural New York to deal with clearing up his father’s effects, deciding what More...

Originally published at Reading Reality

There will be an inevitable comparison to the movie Rain Man. But Ray Kilbride is in no way as self-centered at Tom Cruise's character in the movie. And Thomas is a lot more functional than Dustin Hoffman's. In the end, also more self-centered.

But if we're talking about movies, think of Trust Your Eyes as Rear Window crossed with Google Earth, viewed by a map-obsessed shut-in. Thomas Kilbride could go out, but he doesn't. He thinks he's working for the CIA, More...

Ray Kilbride is an illustrator who returns home after the death of his father in somewhat mysterious circumstances. His brother, Thomas, is a map-obsessed schizophrenic who spends his entire life viewing streets around the world on the internet (via a Google Earth type program). One day Thomas stumbles on what appears to be a murder, captured by the passing camera. Ray is sceptical, but agrees to visit the address in question to investigate on his brother's behalf. This decision will lead both R More...

TRUST YOUR EYES (LINWOOD BARCLAY)

Story Description:

Doubleday Canada|September 4, 2012|Trade Paperback|ISBN: 978-0-385-66957-3

Thomas Kilbride is a map-obsessed schizophrenic so affected that he rarely leaves the self-imposed bastion of his bedroom. But with a computer program called Whirl360.com, he travels the world while never so much as stepping out the door. He pores over and memorizes the streets of the world. He examines every address, as well as the people who are frozen in time on his com More...

Trust Your Eyes is the latest book from Canadian author Linwood Barclay. In tiny letters on the front cover it also says 'A Thriller.' This really should read A THRILLLER. Barclay is always good for a wild ride of a read, but this time he's outdone himself!

Thomas Kilbride loves maps. When a new computer program called Whirl360 is released he is in heaven. He can continue his 'work' - memorizing the streets of all the major cities in the world.

"You picked a spot anywhere on the globe and initiall More...

“Trust your eyes” by Linwood Barclay follows Thomas Kilbridge, a schizophrenic who is in love with maps and the computer program Whirl360 which gives him the opportunity to see the world—when, while web-surfing New York City using Whirl 360, he sees someone’s head sticking out of the window and covered by a plastic bag. A murder is in process. He decides to get his brother Ray involved in investigating the matter and sends him to the place of the crime.

In a parallel plot, Morris Sawchuck is run More...

I'll be honest, this is the first Barclay novel I've read, but it likely won't be the last. I't good, well paced and one of those books where you keep thinking 'just one more chapter'.

The characters are fully realised as well, particularly Thomas. Barclay really gets into his obsession with maps, describing the slow, creeping colonisation of the house. The hitwoman who used to be an Olympic athlete is a peculiar but nice touch as well.

The main plot is the death Thomas sees in the window. This br More...

I was left feeling slightly disappointed by Linwood Barclays' new offering ‘Trust Your Eyes’. The story starts simply with Thomas viewing streets over the internet using Whirl360 (like our Street View on Google Earth) and sees something that makes him suspicious. He tries to tell his brother, Ray, who at first doesn’t listen and then doesn’t believe him. Thomas is a schizophrenic and sits in his room all day viewing and memorising streets all over the world – and insists the president and CIA ha More...

I have read all but one of Linwood Barclay’s previous books and enjoyed each one. This exiting opportunity to read his latest book, “Trust Your Eyes”, was no exception. Linwood Barclay has become one of my favourite authors for a light weight entertaining read. If you are looking for in depth character analysis, glorious descriptive passages or examination of profound ideas, this is not the author for you.

For the setting we are again back in the small township of Promise Falls and Detective Barr More...

I was lucky to receive an advance copy of this book from realreaders, and was so excited to get it as i have loved all of Linwood Barclay's book so far.
The story of the 2 brothers, Ray and Thomas, is the main focus of the book. Their relationship is strained as their father has recently died under suspicious circumstances, and Ray finds it difficult to communicate with and understand Thomas, who has schizophrenia.
Thomas is completely engrossed in an online world called Whirl360 where you can lit More...

The computer programme, Whirl360 allows you to visit the streets of the world from the comfort of your PC. Believing himself to be involved with the CIA, Thomas Kilbride is obsessed with this programme, and is on a mission to memorise the streets of the world. When he inadvertently sees something unusual online, he is unsure of how to deal with it, but Thomas is schizophrenic, and occasionally confuses fact with fiction. He’s about to discover that sometimes you really do have to trust your eyes More...

This exceptional new novel by Linwood Barclay I envisage as this years bestseller, standing out on the bookshelf as not only a fantastic summer read but also top reading choice for 2012.

Betrayed by blindness Thomas Kilbride is deceived by his ideal situation of false employment for the CIA, that is online via a website called Whirl360. As the plot thickens and niggling doubts alongside questions appear, the character’s once cushy world turns upside down as the truth is suddenly revealed in all More...

Published in 2012 by NAL (New American Library)

Linwood Barclay. I came across him almost by accident about 3 years ago and he is one of my favorite authors to go looking for. He doesn't write series (at least not anymore) so you can just jump in and go for a ride. His books feature regular guys who get stuck in an extraordinary circumstance not of their making.

In Trust Your Eyes two grown brothers are re-united due to the death of their father. One of the brothers (Ray) is a political cartoonist More...

This is the first book I’ve read by Linwood Barclay and I will certainly be reading another one!

The story starts off with Thomas Kilbride who has schizophrenia and spends his days memorizing city layouts all across the world using an internet map site – Whirl360. One day he comes across an image that he believes is a woman being murdered. Thomas and his brother, Ray, quickly get caught up in a situation which has them fighting for their lives. It’s a fast paced thriller which has a number of th More...

Having read all of Linwood Barclays other books and enjoying them all bare one (the accident) I was looking forward to reading this book. This my favourite genre of book.

The storyline was very unique and fresh and the story took may twists and turns that I was not expected. It is very easy to warm to the two main characters Thomas and Ray, although your are lead to believe that Thomas may not be as inocent as he seams.

Thomas is obsessed with whirl360 and is compossing maps and memorising citys f More...

Trust your eyes was my first Linwood Barclay book and I was not disappointed! The author has the ability to create credible characters that you can immediately relate and empathise with, bringing the story to life and ensuring those pages keep turning!

Ray returns to his childhood home after the sudden death of his Father, which leaves him as the sole carer of Thomas, his brother who has mental health problems. Thomas is obsessed with a computer programme which enables him to 'walk' around cities More...