Bad Move

Linwood Barclay is the author of Bad Move. This mystery/comedy fiction novel is about a guy name Zach Walker. Zach is very concerned about safety. Prior to his wife and two teenaged children moving to the suburbs, they lived in the city. Lately their neighborhood had taken a turn for the worse with drug users and prostitutes frequenting the area. He decided to move to a new subdivision in the suburbs. His wife worked for a local newspaper. He worked from home. The two kids attended high school. Zach has a problem with his wife leaving her keys in the vehicle or hanging from the front door lock. Zach has a problem with his two kids leaving their backpacks at the top of the stairs which is a serious tripping hazard. Zach is a nagger about safety. Sometimes he makes bad moves. When he found his wife's keys in the car he decided to move the car around the corner and out of sight leading her to believe the car was stolen. She did not appreciate his safety lesson. Zach makes a series of bad moves like this when an actual crime occurs in his neighborhood. Two people are murdered and thanks to his bad moves he is implicated in one of the murders. This is a somewhat humorous story about a paranoid freak of an anxious and unlikable character.