One by one, the people on his list of nine descendants begin to meet with strange or mysterious circumstances. With light woven throughout, it is a moving story of missed opportunities, second chances and unfulfilled potential. He wasn’t always rich-in fact at one point in his life, he was so down on his luck that he was donating his sperm. Through his connections and bribery, he obtains a list of 9 young adults listed as his biological children by the clinic.

I have been a fan of Linwood Barclay and his thrillers for years, but somehow fell off the bandwagon at some point.A well-paced crime fiction that may not produce a lot of thrills, but definitely keeps the pages turning with its suspense.

Miles is terminally ill and there is a fifty percent chance it can be passed on to his future generations. Their remains, residences, and belongings have been burned or destroyed, or their homes thoroughly cleaned and disinfected to destroy DNA traces. There are a few characters here, and at times I struggled with keeping up with them all, and that did stall the story for me. We have everything from corruption, deception, sheer greed with dangerous malice, hitmen and murder.Not only does he want to inform them about the illness, but has decided to divide his inheritance amongst them all. Ibram X Kendi is a leading voice in the fight for racial equality, and has written a children’s version of his book How To Be An Antiracist.

Meanwhile we meet some of the nine children who are all around 20 give or take a few years and we learn that some of them are being killed. She had already learned she had a half brother through a DNA testing site, Todd Cox, and the two of them had already met. The Bromsgrove Standard is one of a group of local weekly newspapers spanning Worcestershire, Warwickshire and the West Midlands published by Bullivant Media Group - each newspaper providing all the latest local news, sport and advertising, in print and 247 on line.The doctor, believing Miles has no children, explains that there would have been a fifty percent chance of this disease being passed along to any offspring. My favorite character was definitely Chloe, a young woman who was in the midst of making a documentary about her family tree. On top of that, there is a fifty percent chance that the gene can be passed onto other members of the family.

Barclay has a knack for this type of writing and I am eager to keep reading whatever he has to offer. Thank you to Sam Glatt, Scene of the Crime Early Read program, and William Morrow via Netgalley for an ARC to read and review. They’ll ask, knowing there has to be as much engineering as inspiration when Barclay draws up the blueprints for his tales. Short to mid-length chapters keep the reader guessing and wondering, all while trying to make sense of what’s really taking place, a trademark Barclay style. They usually annoy the shit outta me by 1) writing about women as if they're only mounds of flesh 2) throwing in some CIA/underground mafia/KGB storyline in a crime book that takes place in Boise, Idaho.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). He loves his brother but is inclined to leave him out of the will because of Gilbert's greedy, duplicitous, treacherous wife, Caroline. When single millionaire Miles Cookson finds out that he has a fatal disease, he sets out to make things right.