Linwood barclay no time for goodbye spoiler

After a fake clairvoyant is exposed, she and Terry return to their psychiatrist, Dr. Naomi Kinzler..

No Time for Goodbye

by Linwood Barclay

Published by Bantam Books

352 pages, 2007

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Reviewed by Ali Karim

One of the principal delights in book reviewing is discovering a gem, a work that pushes the bar just a little higher -- and that is exactly what No Time for Goodbye does.

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Nearing the end, Linwood reveals an astonishing trait of Terry's best friend that I found difficult to digest.

After a fake clairvoyant is exposed, she and Terry return to their psychiatrist, Dr. Naomi Kinzler.

When Enid starts shouting, Jeremy runs towards them, so he gets in the way of the car, so in the end the three of them end up in the lake, dead.

So it's no spoiler to disclose that the mystery of the family's disappearance is eventually solved – that is, after all, the book's raison d'être.

The biggest surprise for this reviewer is that I’d never read any previous works by Canadian author Linwood Barclay, which made finding No Time just that much sweeter.

It may be a cliché to say that this novel is impossible to put down, but for me that was true.

I started reading No Time late one evening -- a mistake -- and I was damned if I was going to let my fatigue stop me from finishing. This meant brewing a mug of very strong coffee past midnight, just so I could finish Barclay’s haunting tale.

No Time for Goodbye has a great premise, and a cast