Título: Too Close to Home
Autor: Linwood Barclay
Sinopse: 'The night they killed our neighbors, we never heard a thing.' In a quiet suburban neighborhood, in a house only one door away, a family is brutally murdered for no apparent reason. And you think to yourself: It could have been us. And you start to wonder: What if we're next? Linwood Barclay, critically acclaimed author of No Time for Goodbye, brings terror closer than ever before in a thriller where murder strikes in the place we feel safest of all. Promise Falls isn't the kind of community where a family is shot to death in their own home. But that is exactly what happened to the Langleys one sweltering summer night, and no one in this small upstate New York town is more shocked than their next-door neighbors, Jim and Ellen Cutter. They visited for the occasional barbecue and their son, Derek, was friends with the Langleys' boy, Adam; but how well did they really know their neighbors? That's the question Jim Cutter is asking, and the answers he's getting aren't reassuring. Albert Langley was a successful, well-respected criminal lawyer, but was he so good at getting criminals off that he was the victim of revenge - a debt his innocent family also paid in blood? From the town's criminally corrupt mayor to the tragic suicide of a talented student a decade before, Promise Falls has more than its share of secrets. And Jim Cutter, failed artist turned landscaper, need look no further than his own home and his wife Ellen's past to know that things aren't always what they seem. But not even Jim and Ellen are ready to know that their son was in the Langley house the night the family was murdered. Suddenly the Cutters must face the unthinkable: that a murderer isn't just stalking too close to home but is inside it already. For the Langleys weren't the first to die and they won't be the last.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Too Close to Home”, de Linwood Barclay, publicado pela editora Bantam, em 2008 e com 404 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Bantam
Páginas: 404
Ano: 2008
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 0553805568
ISBN13: 9780553805567
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Bantam oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas que transitam entre o suspense psicológico, o thriller investigativo e a aventura com pitadas de romance e fantasia. O catálogo apresenta histórias que exploram conflitos intensos, como perseguições policiais, mistérios familiares e embates em cenários urbanos ou fantásticos, muitas vezes com personagens complexos enfrentando dilemas morais e pessoais profundos. A linguagem varia entre o acessível e o envolvente, com ritmo que ora acelera em cenas de tensão, ora desacelera para aprofundar a construção dos personagens e suas relações. As sinopses sugerem uma preferência por tramas que combinam ação com elementos de drama e emoção, contemplando tanto o público adulto quanto leitores que apreciam narrativas mais densas e multifacetadas.
