A warm summer Saturday. An amusement park. David Harwood is glad to be spending some quality time with his wife, Jan, and their four-year-old son. But what begins as a pleasant family outing turns into a nightmare after an inexplicable disappearance. A frantic search only leads to an even more shocking and harrowing turn of events.
Until this terrifying moment, David Harwood is just a small-town reporter in need of a break. His paper, the Promise Falls Standard, is struggling to survive. Then he gets a lead that just might be the answer to his prayers: a potential scandal involving a controversial development project for the outskirts of this picturesque upstate New York town. It’s a hot-button issue that will surely sell papers and help reverse the Standard’s fortunes, but strangely, David’s editors keep shooting it down.
Why?
That’s a question no longer at the top of David’s list. Now the only thing he cares about is restoring his family. Desperate for any clue, David dives into his own investigation—and into a web of lies and deceit. For with every new piece of evidence he uncovers, David finds more questions—and moves ever closer to a shattering truth.
My thoughts
David Harwood was a happily married man, wanted to spend time with his wife, Jan and son, Ethan. But when Jan disappears and Ethan is abducted (or was he) while visiting a local amusement park, his life becomes a living hell; especially when things don’t add up and the police are considering him a murderer. Being a reporter for a small town newspaper, David begins to investigate himself, while also trying to keep one step ahead of the police. What unravels has more twists and turns than a rollercoaster ride. Linwood Barclay’s NEVER LOOK AWAY is a thriller that leads you one way, making you assume one thing, and then leads you down a different path, making you really use your brain to figure out what is going on. Yes, there were some things that I figured early on and others that I assumed incorrectly, but that made the story all the more fun to read.
Note: This book was borrowed from my local library.
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