Bad Move
Book description
Zack Walker Mystery #1
Zack Walker is a writer with an overactive imagination and two teenage children. After a murder on their street, he uproots his family from the city - insisting it's for their own good - and heads for the security of the suburbs.
However, his peaceful new…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Bad Move as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This was the first mystery thriller of Linwood’s I read. And it wasn’t the last.
Since then, I’ve read every book he has written and have never been disappointed. Bad Move is a mystery thriller set in the small town of Promise Falls.
You would think moving from the big bad city would be a good move. But no. Hence the name Bad Move. Linwood combines this mystery thriller with humour. Yes, humour in a thriller.
He is a master storyteller.
From Joan's list on new and not so new murder mystery and mayhem.
Bad Move introduces us to an accidental sleuth, Zack Walker, who is a science fiction writer and over protective father who moves his family from the ‘dangerous’ city of Toronto to the peaceful suburbs, and runs headlong into the law of unintended consequence. Nothing is as it seems in this idyllic neighbourhood, and poor Zack is not the most observant of people. His life unravels when he decides to teach his wife a lesson, by pretending to steal her purse out of the grocery cart while food shopping. The problem is it’s not his wife’s purse and this leads him…
From Yvonne's list on discovering which type of mystery fits you.
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