Book info

• Title Fear the Worst
• Author Linwood Barclay
• Year 2009
• Genre Thriller

Your daughter doesn’t come home one night from her summer job. You go there looking for her. No one’s seen her. But it’s worse than that. No one’s ever seen her. So where has she been going every day? And where is she now? In Linwood Barclay’s riveting new thriller, an ordinary man’s desperate search for his daughter leads him into a dark world of corruption, exploitation, and murder. Tim Blake is about to learn that the people you think you know best are the ones harboring the biggest secrets.

Thoughts

This is a servicable thriller, but if I’m honest, it didn’t grab me as much as I’d hoped. I could understand the family’s desperation to find their missing daughter but as everything started to unravel and the secrets began being revealed, it all felt a bit unrealistic and hard to swallow - even if you try to suspend your disbelief. And the characters weren’t really that nice, to each other and just generally. Completely readable but not one I’m going to be thinking about for too long afterwards.

Rating: 2 / 5