One of my favourite Linwood Barclay books is No Time For Goodbye, which is where Cynthia Archer arrived home to find her family missing and then it turned out that her father had killed her mother and brother as she discovers twenty five years later with the hep of family friend Vince. Fast forward seven years and you have No Safe House by Linwood Barclay featuring Terry and Cynthia Archer and their fifteen year old Daughter Grace. Ever since Cynthia discovered what happened to her family, life has been unsettling as she has tried to put in places barriers and safety measures so that her own daughter Grace won't have to go through what she did. Grace being a teenage girl argues back one night and takes it a bit too far as she brings up about Cynthia's family - the one sore spot in her life. Cynthia snaps and ends up slapping Grace which causes Grace to fall backwards and in falling backwards she reaches out for the nearest thing which turns out to be a pot and burns her hand. This is the breaking point for Cynthia as she decides it will be best if she moves out and so she does. During this time Terry is left to be a single dad to Grace and she learns to lie about her whereabouts. All is well until Grace stumbles into something terrible and finds herself holding a gun and a dead person. Turns out though, that this incident is connected to Cynthia's old mutual friend Vince and so begins all over again a love/hate relationship with Vince and being pulled into whatever criminal stunt he is pulling. As the death count rises though, is Cynthia and her family safe or has escaping death once caused them to have lost their second or third chance at life ?
Find out in this action packed rollercoaster ride of Linwood Barclay's new novel "No Safe House".

Although not as powerful and strong as No Time for Goodbye, No Safe House is a very good follow up and is without doubt a classy novel befitting an author of Linwood Barclay's stature and reputation. I love reading his books and they never fail. Some obviously better than others, you can't always hit it out of the park, but in No Safe House it was great to revisit the Archer family and together with typical Barclay twists and turns it makes for another gripping read.