Sunday, February 12, 2012

13. The Accident - Linwood Barclay

audio read by Peter Berkrot (and he was excellent)
2011 Brilliance Audio
11 unabridged discs
12 hrs. 30 min.
$29.99 (borrowed from TPPL)
400 pgs.
Liked it a lot (4)

Setting:  Contemporary suburban Connecticut
OSS:  Glen Garber, a self-employed contractor, tries to deal with the death of his wife under mysterious circumstances.

Glen Garber's wife, Sheila, is killed in a horrible auto accident that also claims the lives of a father and his young son.  But when Glen discovers that his responsible, law-abiding wife was supposedly extremely drunk and caused the accident, life begins to tilt.  After his 8-year old daughter, Kelly, goes on a sleepover and overhears a secret telephone conversation, everything and anything begin to happen.  More deaths.  More mystery.  Surprise after surprise, right down to the very end.  This is a roller coaster ride of a story, and that this poor protagonist kept his mind together at all is very surprising.  There are a couple of places that I felt, "what was he thinking?" but would probably have really come about in such strange situations that happened.  This was a really good story, really wonderful to listen to, that I brought in from the car to finish in the house (a bit unusual for me).

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