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Trust Your Eyes
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#1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay’s novels have been praised as “compelling” (The Associated Press), “gripping” (The Wall Street Journal), and “fast-paced” (The Washington Post).
Now, Barclay returns with a thrilling story in which two brothers suddenly find themselves pulled into a frightening vortex of power and murder…
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 computer screen.
Then he sees something that anyone else might have stumbled upon—but has not—in a street view of downtown New York City: an image in a window. An image that looks like a woman being murdered.
Thomas’s brother, Ray, takes care of him, cooking for him, dealing with the outside world on his behalf, and listening to his intricate and increasingly paranoid theories. When Thomas tells Ray what he has seen, Ray humors him with a half-hearted investigation. But Ray soon realizes he and his brother have stumbled onto a deadly conspiracy.
And now they are in the crosshairs…
Now, Barclay returns with a thrilling story in which two brothers suddenly find themselves pulled into a frightening vortex of power and murder…
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 computer screen.
Then he sees something that anyone else might have stumbled upon—but has not—in a street view of downtown New York City: an image in a window. An image that looks like a woman being murdered.
Thomas’s brother, Ray, takes care of him, cooking for him, dealing with the outside world on his behalf, and listening to his intricate and increasingly paranoid theories. When Thomas tells Ray what he has seen, Ray humors him with a half-hearted investigation. But Ray soon realizes he and his brother have stumbled onto a deadly conspiracy.
And now they are in the crosshairs…
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“This book crept up on me and never let go. What started as a quiet, unsettling mystery slowly layered itself into something far bigger and far more tangled than I ever expected. Every time I thought I had my footing, another thread revealed itself, another question surfaced, another assumption quietly collapsed. It’s the kind of story that doesn’t rush you at first. It lures you in, lets the unease build, and then suddenly you realize how deep you are.
What really worked for me was how the storylines kept folding into one another. A suspected crime opened the door to family secrets, long-buried guilt, and a past that refused to stay buried. The tension didn’t rely on shock value but on accumulation, each revelation making the whole picture more unstable and harder to predict. The sense of danger grew steadily, and by the final quarter, it turned into a full-blown storm.
The final stretch was a whirlwind. Twists came fast, and several of them genuinely blindsided me. The truth, when it surfaced, was messy, uncomfortable, and shocking in a way that felt earned. Nothing was clean or simple, and that actually made it work better. By the end, I was stunned in the best way. I never got bored, never felt the urge to slow down, and kept wanting to read faster just to keep up with the chaos unfolding.
I closed the book feeling shaken and impressed. It was a tornado of a story. Tense, layered, and relentlessly engaging, the kind that keeps your mind racing even after you’ve turned the last page.”
“How much can a window cause ...😱😱”
About Linwood Barclay
Linwood Barclay, former columnist for the Toronto Star, is the #1 international bestselling author of nine critically acclaimed novels, including The Accident, Never Look Away, and No Time for Goodbye, which has been optioned for film. He lives near Toronto.
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