No Time for Goodbye

Nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award, the Barry Award, and short-listed as best novel by the International Thriller Writers

One night, when Cynthia Archer was 14 years old, her family disappeared. Now, 25 years later, she’s about to learn what happened to her mother, father brother, and she might be better off never finding out.
Bad move

Bad Move introduces Linwood’s reluctant hero, Zack Walker, a science fiction writer and perpetually worried father who moves his family from the dangerous city to the peaceful suburbs, and runs headlong into the law of unintended consequence. The Walker family’s change of scene doesn’t bring about tranquility, but it does introduce them to political corruption, a marijuana-growing operation, the neighborhood dominatrix, and murder.
Bad Guys

Zack Walker has joined the staff of a city newspaper and his feature on the life of a private detective has dragged him into the doings of a murderous gang of thieves. The car he bought at a police auction contains a secret that could get him killed. And it’s possible his daughter is being stalked by a dangerous would-be boyfriend.
Lone Wolf

Zack has a run-in with some home-grown terrorist types while trying to help out his father.
Stone Rain

Zack Walker gets drawn into the dangerous and violent past of his former neighbor, dominatrix Trixie Snelling.
Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country

In this funny yet poignant memoir, which was shortlisted for one of Canada’s top literary prizes, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, Linwood Barclay tells the story of his teenage years, when his parents left behind the suburbs of Toronto to run a cottage resort and trailer park in the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario.