In Conversation with Linwood Barclay: Not a Word

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In Conversation with Linwood Barclay: Not a Word This episode is a special one — Linwood Barclay returns to talk about Not a Word , a family secrets thriller that opens with a horrific discovery and spirals into a story spanning three generations, inspired in part by the real-life opioid scandal in North America. We talk about why the book was originally titled The Pond , his rule that a twist has to land at the end of a chapter or it loses its punch, and his refreshingly no-nonsense take on writer's block ("there's no plumber's block"). Linwood also explains why his dream writing location is just... upstairs from his kitchen, and delivers a very firm verdict on cookie dunking. Before that,…