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.




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“No Time For Goodbye just flies off the page. It’s a one-sit thriller. You sit down with this book and you won’t get up until you’ve turned the last page.”

– Michael Connelly
Author of Echo Park and The Overlook


“No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it."
– Alafair Burke
Author of Dead Connection


“No Time For Goodbye is a high-speed emotional roller-coaster.  The surprises will leave you breathless.”
– Robert Crais
Author of The Watchman and The Two Minute Rule


“One of the best thrillers of the year! Utterly riveting. It will grab you on page one and won’t let you go until the final, stunning conclusion.”

– Tess Gerritsen
Author of The Bone Garden


“Barclay does for the suspense novel what Stephen King does for horror: he roots it in the details of normal, everyday life, making the unsettling events, when they occur, all the more frightening. This is a first-rate thriller.”

– Giles Blunt
Author of By The Time You Read This


“An intricately woven, wonderfully convoluted puzzle that kept me guessing to the very end.”
– Kelley Armstrong
Author of No Humans Involved


“Begins as an intriguing mystery then shifts with a sinister grace into a race-against-time thriller that begs to be read in a single sitting.”

– David Hewson
Author of The Lizard’s Bite


“A terrific page-turner that keeps you in suspense until the very end. If you like Harlan Coben, you’ll love Linwood Barclay.”
– Peter Robinson
Author of Piece of My Heart


“A great suburban thriller, and that’s not a contradiction in terms. Linwood Barclay doesn’t make one false step, and the surprises just keep on coming. Don’t start reading Goodbye late at night: you’ll stay up to finish it.”

- Charlaine Harris
Author of All Together Dead