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Bad move / Linwood Barclay.

by Barclay, Linwood.

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Bantam Books, 2005, c2004.

Suburban life -- Fiction.

Suburbanites -- Fiction.

Home ownership -- Fiction.

Father and child -- Fiction.

Safety education -- Fiction.

Science fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction.

Barclay, Linwood. Zack Walker mysteries ; 1.

9780553587043 (pbk.)

Bantam mass market ed.

387 p. ; 18 cm.

Paranoid science-fiction author Zack Walker, his wife, and two teenagers move from the city to the suburbs, where they hope to be safe from crime. But Zack still sees disaster in the making everywhere: front doors left unlocked, backpacks at the top of the stairs, and a curling iron left plugged in by his daughter. Therefore, Zack decides to teach his family a series of lessons so they will learn to be more careful. Teaching his wife to watch her purse while shopping leads to a series of events that spiral out of control, going from bad to worse, as Zack gets mixed up in fraud, blackmail, and murder. With the bad guys close behind, Zack, along with a couple of eccentric neighbors, must find a murderer before he and his family are hurt or killed. Fast pacing, well-drawn characters, and a look at the life of a science-fiction writer add to the pleasure of this humorous first-person account in which the suburbs turn out to be no guarantee of personal safety.

Mystery fiction.

Canadian fiction.

Domestic fiction.

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