Find You First: From the international bestselling author of books like Elevator Pitch comes the most gripping crime thriller of 2021

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In some ways he’s Miles’ antithesis. Miles has deliberately kept people at a distance but he’s now confronted by that very fact, and when he reaches out he proves himself to be kind and generous. And of course there’s an unhappy irony about the fact he’s only doing it now…. when his time is limited. With a truly unique and clever premise, best-selling author Linwood Barclay’s Find You First is an incredible thrill ride with non-stop action. It is full of smart and funny dialogue, plus Barclay is a master of ending chapters with a cliffhanger, so there is simply no putting this book down once you get started…Barclay has filled this thriller with well-drawn, memorable characters, fast paced action and unpredictable twists. There is a reason he has such a loyal fan base! In Find You First, Barclay has given us an exciting puzzle to solve, and tremendously interesting characters to solve it with.” – Nerd Daily Find You First has a style reminiscent of A.J. Finn ( The Woman in the Window) and Paula Hawkins ( Girl on the Train), bullet speed and all consuming! This one will leave you up, at all hours of the night, until you reach the end!” – Girly Book Club

Miles laughed sardonically. “Why couldn’t it have been cancer? There’s stuff they can do for cancer. Cut it out, hit it with chemo. But this?” She takes Miles to meet Todd, and they are dismayed to discover that he has disappeared without a trace. More alarming is the knowledge that others on the list have died or vanished. Their remains, residences, and belongings have been burned or destroyed, or their homes thoroughly cleaned and disinfected to destroy DNA traces. Miles wants to protect Chloe from their fate as they pursue a dangerous investigation to find out what is happening to his biological children, the reasons for their elimination, and who is to blame. Find You First” by Linwood Barclay exceeded my expectations. It was a well-written, suspenseful, character-driven mystery suspense that kept me glued to the plot for the entirety of the novel. Though this was my first Linwood Barclay, it will not be my last.The other day,” he said, “I wanted to put one foot in front of the other, something as simple as that, and my brain was like, no way, Jose. Not happening. And then, a second later, it was okay. Dorian, my assistant, had set up a meeting, told me all the details. Five minutes later, I could barely remember any of it.” Tech millionaire Miles Cookson has more money than he can ever spend, and everything he could dream of—except time. He has recently been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and there is a fifty percent chance that it can be passed on to the next generation. For Miles, this means taking a long hard look at his past . . . The beginning felt fiddly, confusing and clunky to me with lots of characters to meet and I kept getting them mixed up and almost gave it up as a bad do but carried on and after about 15% got into the swing of it and it did improve and turned into a kinda fascinating story but for me remained fairly far fetched and not plausible There’s no getting around it,” Alexandra said. “Huntington’s . . . it’s like you take Alzheimer’s, ALS, and Parkinson’s and put them all into a blender. Your symptoms are very similar to any of those.”

He meets the first on the list, Chloe Swanson, and is surprised to discover that they form a bond with each other. Linwood Barclay’s novels – as intelligent as Michael Connelly’s, as compelling as Harlan Coben’s – never fail to astonish. A Noise Downstairs, his best work yet, is a cobra of a story: smooth, slippery, unnerving . . . and likely to strike when you least expect it. I devoured this book.”— A. J. Finn, #1 New York Timesbestselling author of The Woman inthe Windowon A NOISE DOWNSTAIRSBut, as the others on his list begin to meet suspicious and untimely deaths, he wonders if he has just put Chloe in harm’s way...