Front cover of Whistle by Linwood Barclay, hardback

Whistle - Linwood Barclay

Linwood Barclay

£20.00
  • Pages · 432 pages
  • Publication Date · 05/06/2025
  • Genre · Thriller / suspense
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Terrific' STEPHEN KING
'First-class storytelling. Hooked from the first page, I raced through the book in one sitting' Five Star Reader Review
'Dark and thoroughly absorbing' (Five stars) ***** When you hear it, be afraid. Annie Blunt and her young son Charlie moved to their house in upstate New York to put a dreadful year behind them. The death of her husband and a scandal around one of her children's books left them both needing a fresh start. But things aren't as peaceful as Annie hoped. Strange sounds wake her in the middle of the night. There's something sinister about the toy train Charlie discovers in a locked shed in the grounds. And then bizarre things start happening in the neighbourhood. Grief can play tricks on the mind, but Annie is beginning to realise she's walked out of one nightmare and straight into another. Sunday Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay enters new territory with a fiendishly twisted supernatural chiller. ****** PRAISE FOR LINWOOD BARCLAY: `Linwood Barclay has crafted another perfect page-turner' The Times `Pacy and tense, it's a triumph from a master thriller writer. Every page makes your heart beat that little bit faster' The Sun `You'll be left speed-reading towards the end to discover answers expertly posed by the bestselling Toronto-based crime writer' The Independent `Totally absorbing. brilliant stuff' Neil Lancaster `A superior thriller' Sunday Times `A suspense master' Stephen King ***** Readers are gripped by WHISTLE! 'Whistle is simply genius . my favourite book of [Linwood Barclay's] I've ever read' (Five stars) 'A twisty horror thriller with a Stephen King feel. Do yourself a favour and read this book' (Five stars) 'Bravo Mr Barclay - Brilliant . everything I want from a book was here and so much more! I enjoyed every twisted minute of it' (Five stars)

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