{"product_id":"9780008734985","title":"Whistle","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Barclay, Linwood | Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945) \u003cbr\u003ePublished 04\/06\/2026 by HarperCollins Publishers (HQ) in the United Kingdom \u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 432 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 129 x 29mm | 290g\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Terrific' STEPHEN KING\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'First-class storytelling. Hooked from the first page, I raced through the book in one sitting' Five Star Reader Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Dark and thoroughly absorbing' (Five stars)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e *****\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  When you hear it, be afraid…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Annie Blunt and her young son Charlie moved to their house in upstate New York to put a dreadful year behind them. The death of her husband and a scandal around one of her children's books left them both needing a fresh start.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e But things aren't as peaceful as Annie hoped. Strange sounds wake her in the middle of the night. There's something sinister about the toy train Charlie discovers in a locked shed in the grounds. And then bizarre things start happening in the neighbourhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Grief can play tricks on the mind, but Annie is beginning to realise she’s walked out of one nightmare and straight into another…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sunday Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay enters new territory with a fiendishly twisted supernatural chiller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e******\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  PRAISE FOR LINWOOD BARCLAY:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Linwood Barclay has crafted another perfect page-turner’ The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Pacy and tense, it’s a triumph from a master thriller writer. Every page makes your heart beat that little bit faster’ The Sun\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘You’ll be left speed-reading towards the end to discover answers expertly posed by the bestselling Toronto-based crime writer’ The Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Totally absorbing… brilliant stuff’ Neil Lancaster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A superior thriller’ Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A suspense master’ Stephen King\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e *****\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Readers are gripped by WHISTLE!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'Whistle is simply genius … my favourite book of [Linwood Barclay's] I've ever read' (Five stars)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A twisty horror thriller with a Stephen King feel. Do yourself a favour and read this book' (Five stars)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Bravo Mr Barclay – Brilliant … everything I want from a book was here and so much more! I enjoyed every twisted minute of it' (Five stars)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE CLEEVE BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57142206562679,"sku":"9780008734985","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/0729\/3737\/files\/9780008734985.jpg?v=1780421909","url":"https:\/\/thecleevebookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780008734985","provider":"The Cleeve Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}