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No Time for Goodbye

by Linwood Barclay, Christopher Lane (Read by)

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The house was deathly quiet. That was the first sign that something was terribly wrong. Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke that morning to find herself alone. Her family - mother, father, and brother - had vanished without a word, without a note, without a trace. Twenty-five years later, Cynthia is still looking for answers. Now she is about to learn the devastating trut...more

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Oct 09, 2007

Bree rated it

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book - it was written from the point of view of the woman's husband, and he takes you through the past, what little they know...starting with the 25th anniversary of her family's disappearance. About 1/3rd of the way through, you start to get pieces of the puzzle, but they throw in a lot of speculation about who could have done it. Parts of it kept me guessing right until the very end. LOVED this book!

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Mar 30, 2008

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Recommends it for: Fans of cheesy suspense novels

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Apr 01, 2008

Rebecca rated it

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if you can stand the "F" word every other page, sometimes many times in one page...then read this book. Its a lot of fun and really interesting. If I cared enough tho, I'd write the author and tell him how a)unnecessary and b)annoying it was to have to see that word over and over again. I know to some people its not an issue at all but to me..blech. The book was so good on its own, it didn't need it AT ALL.

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Aug 04, 2008

Janice rated it

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I gave this book five stars simply for entertainment value. It was almost like watching a film, the characters came to life and the whole book was great fun to read - who cares if the plot was a little implausable.
It's not the sort of book you'll want to keep and read again but enjoy it as a fast food treat. If you read it over a weekend as I did, beware, you might not get much else done.

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Jan 05, 2009

Beth rated it

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Because this book had rave reviews, I feel justified in launching into a few criticisms.
1.The first person narrator is a high school English teacher yet he insists on colloquialisms (or just plain bad grammar) such as, "Me and Grace went to the store." (Not an actual quote but close.)
2. The tone slips. When Vince comes on stage, we move from Stephen King creepiness to slapstick comedy.
3. Clearly the book was written for the movie version which means there's a lot o...more

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Oct 02, 2008

Michael rated it

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After having a fight with her parents, fourteen year old Cynthia Bigge wakes up to find her entire family has mysterious vanished without a trace. Twenty-five years later, the mystery of just what happened to them remains unsolved, leading Cynthia to agree to a segment on a popular reality show in the hopes of finding a few answers about the past that haunts her.

Following the show's airing, a series of mysterious events begins to occur including a mysterious car following her daught...more

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Mar 19, 2009

Vivian rated it

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I picked this one up because the description reminded me of Harlan Coben's books, but was disappointed. The first half of the book, in which Barclay set up his story, is more description than action. I found it pretty boring. No great writing here either. So many readers have commented on the mounting suspense in this book. I found none of that. I felt none of the shock or sense of dread that I usually get when I read a mystery/thriller. Two thirds into the book, I didn't care what actually happ...more

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Mar 01, 2009

Maggie rated it

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Very unexpected, at times very humorous, this book offered something essential: the need to keep reading until I knew what had happened. The characters, especially the daughter, were very well-defined and I cared about what happened to them

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Feb 01, 2008

Jen rated it

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I don't normally read thrillers, but for some reason this caught my eye, perhaps it was because the plot line wasn't your typical mystery/thriller fare. Basically a girl wakes up in the morning and her family is gone...vanished...no sign of struggle and no clue to where they are or why the disappeared. Twenty five years later she is living the typical American life when the incident all comes to the forefront again.

The plot and pace of the story give it 4 starts, possibly almost 5,...more

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Feb 27, 2009

Susan rated it

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This is the first I've ever encountered Linwood Barclay. I love finding new authors who can tell a good story and tell it well. This is a very good story, told very well.

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Jul 27, 2011

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Read this yesterday, sorta inbetween other books and I liked it.
The first half was much more thrilling than the second but that's usually the case with me and thrillers. I don't like the part, where the whole mystery starts to be revealed.

I liked the whole idea of the story (SPOILER ALERT!):

A girl has a big fight with her parents because she is 14 and drunk. She goes to bed, more or less passes out for the night and when she wakes up the following morning, her parents and her brother are gone...more

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Feb 22, 2011

Michele Shimp rated it

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Looking for a thriller that you don't want to put down? Then you need to read No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay. [return][return]This book is definitely a page turner! Cynthia's paranoia - is it in her head? Something she's doing - maybe a split personality? What happened to her family? Are they really dead? I cannot imagine for even a second that my family would just disappear. It's not even in my ability to imagine. Knowing that, I can imagine how if that were to happen, how messed up I w...more

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Oct 25, 2010

Jess rated it

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“No Time for Goodbye” was an exciting thriller revolving around the disappearance of Cynthia Bigge’s family. 25 years later, Cynthia and her husband Terry decides to appear on a television show in hopes to find hints or clues that can lead to Cynthia’s family. This was the beginning of uncovering the truth, as well as leading a very significant part in Cynthia and Terry’s life.
This story was written in the perspective of Cynthia’s husband, Terry Archer. It was interesting because ...more “No Time for Goodbye” was an exciting thriller revolving around the disappearance of Cynthia Bigge’s family. 25 years later, Cynthia and her husband Terry decides to appear on a television show in hopes to find hints or clues that can lead to Cynthia’s family. This was the beginning of uncovering the truth, as well as leading a very significant part in Cynthia and Terry’s life.
This story was written in the perspective of Cynthia’s husband, Terry Archer. It was interesting because other novelists that I’ve read about usually use the perspective of a character with the most drama or with the most problems. But it was the opposite in “No Time for Goodbye”. Instead of having Cynthia, who was the one affected the most due to the disappearance, the author used Terry. This made the story more interesting because we could really feel the frustration the husband was having throughout his life with his wife. After the incident with her family, Cynthia was traumatized and paranoid; she would see visions of her family when they weren't really there, and she was very overprotective about her daughter. It states on pg. 234 “Cynthia had still ended up sleeping with her for the night. She wasn’t about to let her out of her sight for a while.”
Terry decided to get involved in the mystery by asking a lot of people who knew Cynthia as a child, and tried his best to find new clues that people might have missed before. However, it wasn’t until the end that Terry found an important hint that lead to the murderer. Using first person perspective, we can see the interactions and the connections the Archer family has with the community, and really feel the emotions of the father as his desperation increased to find the answer.
The author also added short paragraphs throughout the book of another character’s perspective, the murderers. It was almost like a preview of a movie where you have a short passage of a person talking, but you’re not quite sure who they are or what they are like. It gave an interesting element to the book and it kept the readers questioning themselves what these clues are leading to. It intensified and added suspense to the mood, and I was able to recognize these italicized pages as a symbol of Cynthia and Terry getting closer to finding the answer.
I also thought that Linwood Barclay was brilliant when he wrote his unexpected climax. After Cynthia discovered the reason behind her family’s disappearance and the murderer’s were killed (the mother Enid and her son Jeremy) I thought that this was the end; that everything would be peaceful and the Archer family would no longer live in agony. However, that was not the case. Terry remembered what the boy had said before he died: “But I’ve never killed anyone before.”
Going back to previous incidents, we knew that the body count increased throughout each incident. This not only included Cynthia’s mother and brother, but included Cynthia’s aunt and the detective they hired as well. The surprising twist was that there was another murderer that wasn’t responsible for killing Cynthia’s mother and brother, but killed her aunt and detective for another purpose. When Terry found out, I found myself holding my breath; he was so close to getting shot, along with his family. It was so unexpected, finding a second killer, and this was why I thought it was a great element.
These three elements were what I found interesting in my novel. It intensified the suspense and the drama of the book, and it created a book that many people had a hard time putting down.

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Oct 21, 2010

Pamela rated it

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. “No Time for Goodbye” is an amazing novel that is suspenseful, mysterious and exciting to read. From the beginning, an intricate plot is established and readers are quickly drawn into the story of Cynthia Bigge, a woman whose entire family mysteriously disappeared 25 years prior. This unexplained event has been looming over Cynthia for the past two decades, and as the daughter and sister of three vanished individuals, she yearns for answers. Her husband, Terry constantly supports her every step ...more“No Time for Goodbye” is an amazing novel that is suspenseful, mysterious and exciting to read. From the beginning, an intricate plot is established and readers are quickly drawn into the story of Cynthia Bigge, a woman whose entire family mysteriously disappeared 25 years prior. This unexplained event has been looming over Cynthia for the past two decades, and as the daughter and sister of three vanished individuals, she yearns for answers. Her husband, Terry constantly supports her every step of the way, assuring her that all of her questions will be answered. The mystery continues as we are lead through a valley of twists and turns, with realistic, believable events affecting Cynthia and her own family. The ending is jaw-dropping, yet still practical. I can guarantee that fans of mysteries and thrillers will not be able to put this page-turner down, and will be left with a thirst for more of Linwood Barclay’s gripping novels.

Told through Terry’s perspective, readers are allowed insight to the characters’ emotions and are able to experience the story through the eyes of a key protagonist. This is the most effective way of evoking sympathy and empathy in the readers; we become attached to Terry and Cynthia to the point where we do not want any harm to come to them. This aspect makes the plot all the more riveting and suspenseful.

The plot moves at an effective pace; slow enough for readers to absorb the information and analyze it as they read, yet not too fast for us to keep up with the plot. There are no areas of the story that are boring or dry; every page offers something exciting. The chapter endings must be acknowledged; every chapter finishes with a cliff-hanger sentence, leaving readers in awe. Chapters never bounce back and forth between characters or events; the story always transitions smoothly from the end of one chapter to the beginning of the next. This provides readers with the perfect amount of suspense.

One of the main reasons why this novel is so fascinating is because the events are realistic. Readers are drawn in because we realize that events such as those that happened to Cynthia can happen to anyone. For example, when we learn that Cynthia’s mother and brother disappeared while they were out late getting last minute school supplies, we quickly realize that any one of us could be placed in that scenario. This adds to the anticipation that readers have while reading the book.

The characters are developed in a way that allows us grow with them through their personal trials and triumphs. An example of this is when we learn that Aunt Tess is not suffering from a life-threatening illness. Before this, we are lead to believe that she is dying of cancer, and upon learning that she is in fact healthy, readers are swamped with relief at the news that this much-loved character will not die. The secondary characters (detectives, best friends, therapists and co-workers) take on roles that you would expect in a mystery thriller, but their actions are not predictable, which adds interest to the story. The characters’ foul language can be overwhelming at times (extensive use of the “F-word”), but it adds to the tone and the intensity of the events of the plot.

From the diction to the characters, from the plot structure to the thrill of the mystery, “No Time for Goodbye” is a pleasure to read. With just the right amount of intensity, mystery and suspense, many different types of readers will find entertainment in this amazing work by Linwood Barclay.
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Oct 21, 2010

Chelsea L rated it

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“What if…” – we, as human beings, fear this phrase. What if you woke up one morning to an oddly silent home? What if you walked into a normally bustling kitchen to find that it is totally still? What if your entire family disappeared overnight? What if – it’s a scary phrase, eh?
No Time for Goodbye, written by Canadian author Linwood Barclay, is a thriller that will keep you hanging on the edge from the first word until the final statement. I have never been a big fan of suspense novels, a...more“What if…” – we, as human beings, fear this phrase. What if you woke up one morning to an oddly silent home? What if you walked into a normally bustling kitchen to find that it is totally still? What if your entire family disappeared overnight? What if – it’s a scary phrase, eh?
No Time for Goodbye, written by Canadian author Linwood Barclay, is a thriller that will keep you hanging on the edge from the first word until the final statement. I have never been a big fan of suspense novels, as they usually lack an actual plotline and dwell excessively on blood and gore. However, this novel is both gripping and riveting, with touches of adrenaline rushes along the way.
On a spring morning in 1983, fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge wakes up to an unusually quiet household. She tries convincing herself that there is a logical explanation for this abnormal situation, but soon discovers that her world has been turned upside down. Her entire family has vanished overnight and for the next twenty-five years, this mysterious disappearance remains unsolved.
Twenty-five years after this unfathomable disappearance, Cynthia Bigge is now Cynthia Archer, married to Terry Archer with an eight-year-old daughter, Grace Archer. Though Cynthia continues to wonder about her family, she has learned to deal with this problem. That is, until she decides to share her experience on a TV documentary, Deadline. After the show airs, they begin receiving strange ‘gifts’ around their house. The past has finally come back to haunt Cynthia; it has returned to finish what it has started.
Barclay tantalizes with the most common human fears in No Time for Goodbye. Everyday, we deepen our forehead wrinkles simply because we worry about what obstacles life will throw at us. Humans fear that they will lose everything overnight and with this plotline on our conscience, it turns our fears into reality. In fact, I repeatedly whipped my head around at every irregular noise I heard while reading this novel. Barclay flawlessly toyed with my mind throughout the book, drawing the words out of the book and pulling me into the story.
Not only was the premise of this story unlike any other that I have ever come across, but it was also executed perfectly. Barclay literally takes you on a roller coaster of emotions. One minute I found myself tearing over a death, and the next, I was crawling into the corner, my heart beating at the speed of light. There was never a point in the novel that I wanted to skip over, nor skim through. Within two days of consecutive reading, I had completed the novel, amazed with the way Barclay was able to manipulate with my mind.
Beware: once you pick up this book, you won’t want to put it down.
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Sep 06, 2010

Tony rated it

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Linwood Barclay- No Time for Goodbye (Bantam Books 2008) 4 Stars

After a fight with her parents late one night, Cynthia Bigge wakes up to find that her whole family has just disappeared. She was fourteen at the time and after twenty-five years there are still no clues as to what could have happened. Now she has a family of her own, but she is still haunted by the memories of what happened and the many unanswered questions surrounding the circumstances of the vanishing act. Suddenly it...more

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Jun 09, 2010

Denise rated it

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4.0 out of 5 stars A thriller without the grisly details, July 19, 2008
THIS IS MY FAVORITE BARCLAY

This review is from: No Time for Goodbye (Hardcover)

Lately I've been really disappointed in fiction books that attempt to be thrillers but really are just recitations of murders and torture, each more grisly than the last. I think I've read about all the possible ways to kill, maim, torture and otherwise visit horror on other human beings by everything from psycho ki...more

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Mar 09, 2010

Brittney rated it

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Murder mysteries and thrillers are often the only types of novels I read. I have come across many, both weak and strong and even corny, but this is most definitely my favourite yet. For those of you who enjoy a strong story that can turn around in an instant or one with curious and appealing characters, I think you will agree.
And somehow Barclay does just that, distributes to you both. He mixes an assortment of writing styles and focuses deeply on many key ideas leading to capture a wide ...more

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Feb 16, 2010

Rachel Holbrook rated it

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Oct 03, 2009

Louise rated it

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Shelves: thriller-suspense

Whoa...what a blow-me-away, one seat, page-turner!!! Linwood Barclay just keeps out doing himself. It's a mystery, a thriller, back to a mystery, revs up to a harder, heart-pounding thriller to an unbelievable volcano spewing and flawless ending! Wow...what a story! WHERE, WHERE, WHERE is his next one? Gotta go get it...NOW!!

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"Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke one morning to discover that her entire family-mother, father, older brother-had vanished....more

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Sep 07, 2009

Sarah Edwina Rose rated it

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I was recommended this book by friend who told me she couldn't put it down.

I agree that this book does have some page turning quality, but any hint of excitement at the mystery unfolding was completely overshadowed by the terribly poorly executed and unbelievable narrative.

The story is told by the husband, and he is quite possibly the most uninteresting character I have come across for quite some time. Dry, drab and monotone in his dialogue where any hint of feeling is ex...more

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Aug 18, 2009

Stephen rated it

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In 1993 Thomas H. Cook published a book called Mortal Memory, in which a young man comes home from school to find his mother and sister murdered, and his father gone. He assumed his father had waited for him to come home to kill him, too. Mortal Memory was a very good book.

No Time for Goodbye was published in 2007, and the premise is a fourteen year old girl goes to bed drunk, wakes up to find her entire family missing. Nothing is out of place, they are simply gone.

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Sep 09, 2009

Shona rated it

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This is the first book I have read by Barclay and so I was not sure what to expect from it and thankfully I was given a real treat of a read.

Could you imagine being 14 and waking up one morning to find that your family had disappeared? Well try and imagine that and the fact that 25 years on you are still no closer to working out what happened and where they are?

Well this is exactly what happened to Cynthia who woke up to find her mum, dad and brother to have vanished. 25...more

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Jul 19, 2011

Jamie rated it

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This has to be one of my favourite books of all time. I love the crime and mystery in the book and feel that it is very well paced out.
The story follows Cynthia Archer who wakes up as a teenager one day to find that her family (Dad,Mum and younger Brother) are missing and there is no note left.
The story follows Cynthia Archer trying to find her family while she has a family of her own and she takes part in a TV documentary in which she feels will be able to help her to find her fam...more

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Jun 11, 2011

Dominiek Leenknecht rated it

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Linwood Barclay. De auteur was mij onbekend, maar dit werd met zijn "Zonder een Woord" meer dan goed gemaakt.

Op 15-jarige leeftijd wordt Cynthia Archer wakker en het huis blijkt leeg: haar beide ouders en broer waren verdwenen. 25 jaar later weet Cynthia nog steeds niet wat er toen gebeurd is, daarom neemt ze deel aan een TV-programma waarin deze Cold Case wordt opgerakeld. Waarna er steeds meer tekenen opduiken dat de zaak nog helemaal niet afgesloten is...

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Apr 30, 2010

Patty rated it

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This was a fun read. I was a little leery because sometimes books labeled "thriller" are a bit too much for me - too much action, too much violence, too much murky storyline.

None of that was in this book. When 14 year old Cynthia had a fight with her parents over boys, booze and curfew it doesn't seem like much more than a typical rebel teenager vs. strict parents. But the next morning when Cynthia wakes up the house is empty and her father, mother and brother are missin...more

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Sep 04, 2009

Carol rated it

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Grabbed this book on a whim as I was dashing out the door to the airport. It ended up being an entertaining read for the plane ride to Panama. After a night of teen drinking, Cynthia Archer wakes to find her family missing. This plot has been explored in many ways by different authors. Barclay's take on what happened to the family is not extraoridnary but neither is it boring. I was able to figure out who did what before the end of the book but that was not a bad thing. What made the read for me...more

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May 09, 2010

Shelley rated it

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Aug 29, 2010

Misha rated it

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I don't read thrillers that much. Mainly this is because most of them seem to provide just senseless excitement and lack actual plotline.
No Time for goodbye not only raises the bar for thrillers, its also an intelligently written book. Its not just about momentary adrenaline rush, its very well-written too. The robotic quality that so many thrillers have is lacking here, its very human.
The novel is gripping and intriguing. It proceeds at breakneck speed. When I had started reading it...moreI don't read thrillers that much. Mainly this is because most of them seem to provide just senseless excitement and lack actual plotline.
No Time for goodbye not only raises the bar for thrillers, its also an intelligently written book. Its not just about momentary adrenaline rush, its very well-written too. The robotic quality that so many thrillers have is lacking here, its very human.
The novel is gripping and intriguing. It proceeds at breakneck speed. When I had started reading it, I had not slept properly for 2 days. But once I started on it, I didn't need caffeine to stay awake. The plot served as caffeine for me!
No Time for Goodbye deals with the most terrifying thing that can happen to any human. "What If .." - we are so scared of these two words. Linwood Barclay has delved deep into one of the most common fears of the human psyche.
What if one day everyone whom you love just disappears, like they had never existed? What if you are left all alone , with so many questions unanswered? The "not knowing" is worse than the "knowing" itself. "What if.."...scary, huh?
Fourteen years old, Cynthia, causes her parents much trouble staying out late at night, disobeying and fighting. One night, there's a huge fight after Cynthia's father discovers her in a car with her boyfriend who is another troublemaker. Cynthia storms into her bedroom, shuts the door and drifts off to sleep. Next morning when she comes downstairs, there is noone there. She tries to convince herself that there must be some other rational explanation but the realization dawns soon...her father, mother and brother have gone without a trace....
25 years later, their disappearance is still a mystery and it haunts Cynthia's every waking hour. Married with an 8 year old daughter, she is an overprotective mother, a worrier. She still yearns to know what happened to her family. As a last resort, she decides to appear on a reality show called Deadline in a desperate attempt to find her family. What follows is complete chaos, as shocking truths are discovered which turn Cynthia's world upside down.
I felt that Cynthia's trauma, the effect of her family's disappearance has been well-described. We feel for her and sympathize with her.
Its stuff of nightmares - all our loved ones vanishing and leaving us behind....
No Time for goodbye was exciting, engrossing and edge-of-the-seat. But it was also an emotional ride.
Somewhere while reading the novel, we all will say to ourselves- "what if something similar happens to me?" The very prospect is frightening!
The character development was great too. The author did not compromise with the characters just to add to the action. The readers will genuinely care about the characters. We feel what they are feeling - grief, love, loss, fear and so on. We become involved with the characters.
As the novel twists and turns , it sucks you right in and you are hooked until the last page.

Overall:
Intense suspense and brilliant writing.

Recommended?
Yes! Especially if you are bored with thrillers that just provide momentary adrenaline rush.

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Natalie rated it

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Cynthia Bigge was 14 yrs old when she found that she was alone in her house. But she didnt think other-wise of it. She went about her day with no mom, no big brother, and no dad. Her mother usuallyn left a note telling her what to expect for the day. She has no note from her mom, and worst when she goes to school no one has seen her brother-Todd-.That part of Cynthia's life would have been a day she never wanted to have happened to her. She didnt want to find that her entire family disappeared. ...more

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After spending his formative years helping run a cottage resort and trailer park after his father died when he was 16, Linwood Barclay got his first newspaper job at the Peterborough Examiner, a small Ontario daily. In 1981, he joined the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest circulation newspaper.

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