No Time For Goodbye - Linwood Barclay

Book Summary.... 14 year old Cynthia wakes up one morning to find her usually lively house eerily quiet. The night before, Cynthia had a terrible row with her father who discovered she had gone out drinking with an older boy. As a result, Cynthia at first thinks this is her punishment, a bad hangover and silence from her family. Except 25 years later, she still hasn't solved the mystery of her missing family. From that day forward, Cynthia has not set eyes on her mother Patricia, her father Clayton or her older brother Todd. Now with a family of her own, Cynthia is still struggling to come to terms with the mystery and is still plagued with ...  Read the complete review

I've been slowly making my way through the Richard and Judy Summer Reads for 2008, and have so far read of them, thoroughly enjoying them all, so I had high hopes for this one too. I'm not really a fan of thrillers myself, I much prefer chick-lit, but after some rave reviews that I read, I was willing to give it a go. No Time for Goodbye tells us the story of Cynthia Bigge, who was a normal 15 year old girl living with her parents and brother Todd until one day they just disappear. Cynthia wakes to find the house empty and with no trace of her family. Twenty Five years later, Cynthia still hasn't a clue about what happened to her family, now married to Terry ...  Read the complete review

My Dad gave me this book after reading it himself as he thought it would be the sort of story that I would enjoy and from the moment I started it, I found it hard to put down. The Author Linwood Barclay was born in the US and moved to Canada when he was a young child. He attended Trent University in Peterborough in Ontario which is where he also met his wife. He currently lives in Toronto with his wife and two children. No Time for Goodbye is Barclay's first stand-alone thriller and was published in 2007. The Story No Time for Goodbye tells the story of Cynthia Bigge, a normal 14 year old girl who lives with her parents and brother Todd ...  Read the complete review

I love it when I find a book that demands that I finish it, even when it is 1am in the morning and I have a sneaking suspicion that I will be woken by six, this is definately a book like that. "No time for goodbye" is the story of Cynthia Bigge who, aged 15 in 1983 wakes up in the morning to find her whole family gone without a trace and for seemingly no good reason. Twenty five years later and with a family of her own she is still haunted by what happened and the pieces of the puzzle are about to be revealed. I won't ruin the book for anyone by revealing the twists that the plot take, as following them and wondering what is going on is ...  Read the complete review

I was gripped from the outset with this book and when I came to post my review I was surprised by such a mixture of reviews. I'd like to have given it 4.5 stars but as that's not an option, 5 it is. A really fast thriller that is truly entertaining. Such an amazing concept for a story line and because I really did want to know what was going to happen I would've had to have kept reading even if I wasn't enjoying it. All the characters are extremely well written in the novel. I liked the relationship between Cythia and her husband Terry. It was interesting to see how he dealt with everything that had happened before meeting Cynthia, something that he had lived ...  Read the complete review