Linwood was a popular columnist for the Toronto Star. His breakout novel 'No Time For Goodbye' is an international bestseller, and was the number one bestseller in the UK for 2008, and is shortlisted for the Galaxy British Book Award Books Direct Thriller of the Year. Folllowing on that success, 'To Close To Home' was a number one hardcover title in the UK. His next novel, 'Fear The Worst', will be out in August (Bantam US), and January 2010 (Orion UK) Linwood lives in Burlington, Ontario, with his wife, Neetha.

Too Close To Home (2008)
Too Close To Home was a Number one Hardcover bestseller in the UK in 2009.

The gripping, new stand-alone thriller from the author of No Time for Goodbye.

In a quiet American suburb a teenage boy witnesses a terrifying triple murder. In the aftermath he is taken back to the house as a witness and notices the disappearance of a computer containing a mysterious manuscript he knew enraged the barrister father of the dead family. The police refuse to take the disappearance seriously and days later, Derek is the primary suspect. A series of dazzling plot twists and turns follow, all set against the sultry heat of the American summer.

Rights Sold
Italian - Edizioni Piemme Spa; German - Verlag Ullstein GmbH; United Kingdom & Commonwealth - Orion Publishing Group; French World - Editions Belfond; Russian - AST; Dutch - De Boekerij BV; Hebrew - Modan Publishing House

No Time For Goodbye (2007)
No Time For Goodbye was the number one bestselling title in the UK in 2008.

On the morning she will never forget, suburban teenager Cynthia Archer awakes with a nasty hangover and a feeling she is going to have an even nastier confrontation with her mom and dad. She isn't. Instead, the house is empty, with no sign of her parents or younger brother Todd. At first she just thinks it's weird, then more and more scary, until finally the terrifying reality hits her: in the blink of an eye, without any explanation, her family has simply disappeared. Twenty-five years later the mystery is no nearer to being solved and Cynthia is still haunted by unanswered questions. Were her family murdered? If so, why was she spared? And if they're alive, why did they abandon her in such a cruel way? Now married with a daughter of her own, Cynthia knows that without answers - however shocking they might prove to be - she will never be emotionally or psychologically whole, living in daily fear that her new family will be taken from her just as her first one was. And so she agrees to take part in a TV documentary revisiting the case, in the hope that somebody somewhere will remember something - or even that her father, mother or brother might finally reach out to her...First nothing.

Then just a few crackpots and scam artists coming out of the woodwork. And then the letter, a letter which makes no sense and yet chills Cynthia to the core. And soon she begins to realise that stirring up the past could be the worst mistake she has ever made...

Rights Sold
Russian - AST; French World - Editions Belfond; Italian - Edizioni Piemme Spa; Dutch - De Boekerij BV; Hebrew - Modan Publishing House; German - Verlag Ullstein GmbH
United Kingdom & Commonwealth - Orion Publishing Group; Korean - Eulyoo Publishing Company; Czech World - EUROMEDIA GROUP k.s.; Spanish/World - Circulo de Lectores; Polish - Swiat Ksiazki Sp. z.o.o.; Portuguese/Portugal only - Seleccoes do Reader's Digest (Portugal) S.A.; Slovak - Vydavatelstvo Ikar a.s.
Ukranian - Hemiro Limited; Swedish - Kabusa Bocker AB.; Portuguese/Portugal only - Circulo de Leitores, S.A.; Japanese - Villagebooks Inc; Portuguese/Brazil only - Reader's Digest Brasil Ltda; Thailand - Sanskrit Books; Finnish - Oy Valitut Palat - Reader's Digest Ab; Czech World - Reader's Digest Vyber s.r.o.; Slovak - Reader's Digest Vyber s.r.o.; Romanian - SC Leda Editserv SRL; Russian - Reader's Digest Russia; Chinese Mainland only - Guangxi Normal University PressNorwegian - Vega Forlag AS; Taiwan and Hong Kong - Kate Publishing Co., Ltd

Stone Rain (2007)
Metropolitan newspaper writer Zack Walker has a knack for stumbling onto deadly stories. But it's one that his good friend Trixie Snelling doesn't want told that's about to unleash a storm of trouble. As a professional dominatrix in the suburbs, Trixie has her share of secrets, but Zack has no idea what she's really hiding when a local newspaperman threatens to do an expose on her...not until Zack finds a dead body strapped to the bondage cross in her basement dungeon. Now Zack is implicated in a murder, Trixie is missing, and everything he thought he knew about his friend, his town, even his own marriage, reveals a darker side. Zack's twisted trail to the truth will lead to a long-unsolved triple homicide, bikers, drug wars, and a stone-cold killer hell-bent on revenge. It's a story that's already cost him his job and possibly his wife, and, if Zack's not very lucky, it will cost him his life.

Lone Wolf (2006)
Newspaper writer, family man, and reluctant hero Zack Walker has stumbled onto some dicey stories before, but nothing like what hes about to uncover when a mutilated corpse is found at his father's lakeside fishing camp. As always, Zack fears the worst. And this time, his paranoid worldview is dead-on. While the locals attribute the death to a bear attack, Zack suspects something far more ominous-a predator whose weapons include arson, assault, and enough wacko beliefs to fuel a dozen hate groups. Then another body is discovered and a large supply of fertilizer goes missing, evoking memories of the Oklahoma City bombing. But it's when he learns that his neighbor is a classic Lone Wolf-FBI parlance for a solo fanatic hell-bent on using high body counts to make political statements-that Zack realizes the idyllic town of his childhood is under siege. The fuse is lit to a catastrophe of unimaginable terror. And with time running out, Zack must face off with a madman.

Bad Move (2004)
Zack Walker is a science fiction writer with a bad case of writer's block and a worse case of paranoia. He's moved his teenage family out of their house in the city with its spiralling crime and drugs problems and into Oakwood, a new development in the suburbs. There may not be a tree grown over a foot high on his street and a few teething problems with the shower unit, but that doesn't matter as long as his family's safe. At least he thinks they are until a chance encounter with the local Salamander protection group and a trip to the show home office convinces him that he's on the trail of some very nasty people and that he may not have left behind all his worries when he fled the big city after all.

Rights Sold
Hebrew - Modan Publishing House

Bad Guys (2005)

Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country, received critical raves, a Stephen Leacock Associates Award of Merit, and was shortlisted for the 2001 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour.