Find You First by Linwood Barclay

When he's given the information that he has a terminal disease, he's shocked.  As he thinks about death, he realizes he donated sperm to get money to buy a computer years ago.  Those children could have his disease...

William Morrow sent me an ARC to read and review this story (thank you).  It wull be published on May 4th.

Miles has lots of money and he dislikes his sister-in-law, so he thinks he'll find those children and split the money between them.  He'll  pay for the tests to see if they inherited his disease.  The names are not disclosed by law, but he has friends who can get the information.  Then he begins looking for the children.

He finds Chloe first and they get along well.  She's always wondered who her father was.  But not all of them are still alive.  Someone is killing them systematically.  Why?

When Chloe's test comes back she doesn't have the disease.  Miles is happy about that, but then he finds out he's not her father!  When he approaches the doctor and asks why his name was listed as sperm donor when he wasn't , the doctor won't tell him anything.

Then it becomes a game of cat and mouse.  He wants to find the children to warn them of danger but the killers who kill the kids wants to get there first.

This is a creepy story.  You aren't sure who is going to win and it's not going to be a happy every after ending but justice does get served.

The Accident by Linwood Barclay

Glen is waiting for his wife to come home.  She's never this late.  He soon awakens his daughter and goes to look for his wife.  Unfortunately, he finds her...

Bantam, a division of Random House, and Net Galley gave me the opportunity to read this ebook for review (thank you).  It was published the first part of August, so you can find a copy of it in your local bookstore now.

Sheila has been killed in a car accident.  She was parked where she shouldn't be and she was drunk, which was not like her.  Glen cannot believe she'd drink too much and drive.  She never drank much anyway.  All he knows is that he's lost his wife and he doesn't know why.

This is a well written mystery with lot of ugly characters in it.  The setting is a small town that is normally calm and well mannered, but there is a lot of evil percolating inside those homes.  I had to read the whole book before I had a clue of just how many were involved and how the story tied together.

The author does an excellent job in building reality into her story.  Each person has their own separate motivation for their actions.  And the central bad people were folks I never even considered as suspects.  I love it when a book does that to me.

All the blocks start tumbling down after Sheila's "accident".  Why not get a copy and see if you can figure out who the killer is before the end.  If you do, let me know.  And tell me why you thought so.  I bet you don't identify the bad guys until the end either...

Happy reading.