Trust Your Eyes

Stephen King says it best. My idea of a sweet ride is three days of rain, a fridge filled with snacks, and a new Linwood Barclay. Right on. I picked this one up at the beginning of my last weekend. I just happened to be in my sweet spot………ready to select my next read. King also said that it’s a tale......more

Three stories for the price of one Thomas Kilbride is a functional schizophrenic convinced by the internal voices that he hears that he is working as a consultant to the CIA. His obsession with maps and the streetscapes of cities all around the world confine him to his room, his computer and the feve......more

It’s been a really hectic week, so I wanted to lose myself in an escapist (but well-written) thriller. This book – the first I've read by author Linwood Barclay, former Toronto Star columnist – more than did the trick. I literally couldn’t put Trust Your Eyes down. It’s the kind of book where if I f......more

3.5 Anyone who has seen my book recommendation request list would know I am a big fan of novels that have the main character witnessing a crime/murder through a window. One of my favorite books from my early teens was "The Undertaker's Gone Bananas" by Paul Zindel, and as I got older, Cornell Woolric......more

The premise for this book fascinated me, and the opening pages sucked me right in. Barclay is, no doubt, a talented author and knows how to weave a good story. Unfortunately, this book didn't quite measure up to its promise. The problems I had: The pace is slow. The entire middle of the book drags, w......more