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New on the Outliers YouTube Channel: Get To Know Best-selling Author Linwood Barclay


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Author Linwood Barclay

Join Kathleen Antrim and DP Lyle for a conversation with best-selling author Linwood Barclay on the Outlier's YouTube Channel. Join us:


Watch on YouTube: GET TO KNOW Linwood Barclay


Linwood’s Website: https://www.linwoodbarclay.com/








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I Will Ruin You

In 2004, Linwood Barclay launched his mystery series about an anxiety-ridden, know-it-all, pain-in-the-butt father by the name of Zack Walker. Bad Move, the first book, was followed by three more Zack Walker thrillers: Bad GuysLone Wolf, and Stone Rain. (The last two were published in the UK under the titles Bad Luck and Bad News.)

 

His first standalone thriller, No Time for Goodbye, was published in 2007 to critical acclaim and great international success. The following year, it was a Richard and Judy Summer Read selection in the UK, and did seven straight weeks at #1 on the UK bestseller list, and finished 2008 as the top selling novel of the year there. The book has since been sold around the world and been translated into nearly thirty languages.

 

Barclay was born in the United States but moved to Canada just before turning four years old when his father, a commercial artist whose illustrations of cars appeared in LifeLook and Saturday Evening Post (before photography took over), accepted a position with an advertising agency north of the border. Barclay, who graduated with an English literature degree from Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, was fortunate to have some very fine mentors; in particular, the celebrated Canadian author Margaret Laurence, whom Linwood first met when she served as writer-in-residence at Trent, and Kenneth Millar, who, under the name Ross Macdonald, wrote the acclaimed series of mystery novels featuring detective Lew Archer. It was at Trent that he met Neetha, the woman who would become his wife. They have two grown children, Spencer and Paige.

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