The Accident by Linwood Barclay

A quiet town hides desperate and deadly bargains

Fair to good Condition - Cover is heavily creased and worn, with bent pages near the back. Page edges are tanned, but the text remains clean and readable.

Glen Garber's construction business is struggling as recession tightens its grip on Milford, Connecticut, and a mysterious fire has made an already difficult situation worse. His wife Sheila appears to have found a way to ease their financial problems through a network of local women pursuing opportunities of their own. Then an accident shatters Glen's family and leaves him questioning what he really knew about the people closest to him. As he searches for answers, respectable neighbours begin to look less trustworthy and small schemes reveal consequences far beyond making ends meet. Linwood Barclay's thriller follows an ordinary man into the secrets beneath his town's reassuring surface, where financial desperation, deception and violence have become dangerously entangled.