Story Description:
DoubleDay Canada|August
6, 2013|Trade Paperback|ISBN: 978-0-385-66959-7
It’s been two months
since private investigator, Cal Weaver’s teenage son, Scott died in a tragic
drug-related accident. Ever since, he
and his wife have drifted apart, fracturing a once-normal life. Cal is mired in grief he can’t move
past. And maybe that has clouded his
judgment because he made a grave mistake driving home on a very rainy
night. A drenched young girl tapped on
his window as he sat at a stoplight and asked for a ride. And even though he knew a forty-something man
picking up a teenage hitchhiker is a fool, he let her in the car – she was the
same age as Scott and maybe she could help find the dealer who sold his son the
drugs that killed him. However, after a
brief stop at a roadside diner, Cal senses that something’s not right with the
girl or the situation. But it’s too
late. He’s already involved.
Soon Cal finds
himself mired in a nightmare of pain and suspicion. Something is horribly wrong in small town of
Griffon in Upstate New York. There are
too many secrets, too many lies. And Cal
decides to expose those secrets one by one.
That’s his second
big mistake.
My Review:
Cal and Donna
Weaver’s teenage son, Scott, committed suicide two months ago by jumping off
Griffon’s furniture roof. It has been
said that he was high on drugs, ecstasy at the time. Cal, a private investigator has vowed to
never give up trying to find the person responsible for giving Scott that fatal
dose. His wife, Donna, who worked at the
local police station and whose brother, Augie was the Chief of Police, spent
her spare-time sketching head shots of their son, Scott. Donna had a file folder full of them and said
she wouldn’t stop sketching until she felt she had drawn the best one, the one
that caught the true essence of their beloved son.
As a couple, their
marriage had obviously suffered a great deal.
You don’t go through something like this and not have if affect
you. With, Cal out every single day
working as a private eye and Donna with her work at the police station, it
seems like the two of them are ships passing in the night. Cal knows that when he tip-toes to bed each
night that, Donna is really awake but pretends to be asleep to avoid having to
talk. Cal just goes along with it
because he doesn’t know anymore what to say to her.
Cal has been
making a bad name for himself around their small town of Griffon. He is relentless in his search of the person
who sold, Scott his fatal dose of ecstasy and in the process has roughed up a
few people. Folks are very leery of him
and avoid him when they can. He is so
mired in a grief for his son that he can’t move past that he makes his first
huge mistake.
Driving home one
night in the pounding rain, a girl soaked to the bone ‘taps on his window’ and
asks for a ride as he sits at a stoplight.
Cal thinks about the fact that he is some forty odd years old and
picking up a young, female, teenage hitchhiker alone may not be in his best
interest. But when she taps on his
window she says: “You’re Mr. Weaver, Scott’s Dad.” With that he lets her into his car thinking
that maybe he could help him find the dealer who sold, Scott the drugs that
killed him.
As they’re
driving, the girl, Claire, asks Cal to pull over to a roadside diner as she feels
sick to her stomach and doesn’t want to vomit in his car. After she is back in the vehicle, Cal notices
that something just isn’t right with this girl or the whole situation, but it’s
too late for Cal, he’s already involved.
After driving a bit,
the girl demands to be let out of his car in the middle of nowhere. Cal pleads with her to let him drop her off
at the safety of her house but she adamantly refuses and tries to jump out of
the car while it’s still moving. Cal has
no choice but to pull over to the curb and let her out. Claire hops out into the pouring rain and
begins to run. Later that day she is
found murdered not far from where Cal had let her out of his car – he was the
last person to see her alive. This isn’t going to be good for him.
Cal decides something is horribly, horribly
wrong in this small town of Griffon – too many secrets, too many lies, and too
many cover-ups. He decides he’s going to
investigate on his own leaving no stone unturned. What he doesn’t realize is just how much he
is going to uncover and whether or not he’ll make it out alive!
A Tap on the Window was a
heart-pounding, rollercoaster ride of suspense like I’ve never read. The thrills, the suspense, and the mystery
kept building and building and building until I felt like I was going to
explode if I didn’t soon read the answer to what I wanted to know. At 500 pages, I still read it in two days and
just couldn’t put it down. There were
parts in the book were I actually felt afraid and sort of kept looking around
the room for a minute to get my mind off the feeling. Mr. Barclay has outdone himself with this
one. Please don’t miss out on this
thrilling thriller, you won’t be sorry!!
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