Search - Bad Move (Zack Walker, Bk 1)

This book was so much fun to read! I couldn't put it down, it was like a great roller coaster ride-a laugh-out-loud adrenaline rush! I like Linwood Barclay's thrillers that I have read very much, but this was so different from those and I was very pleasantly surprised! It reminded me of my favorite Hitchcock movie "North By Northwest" just because he (Zack Walker) was his own worst enemy and just kept digging a deeper hole than I could possibly imagine he could get out of. The plot kept thickening so much it amazed me and it wrapped up nicely. This book is now on my Top 10 of all time (and I have read alot of books). I will definitely be reading the rest of the Zack Walker books. I highly recommend this book!

This is a new author for me, and I loved this book. Mystery, suspense, funny! I have all of the rest of his books on my wish list! This is his first book, and I can't wait to read the next one.
I highly recommend it.

This was a great read... humorous, with a clever plot and a creative cast of characters. I really enjoyed this book!

I liked other books by Linwood Barclay more than I liked this one. Slow start, good ending.

Zack Walker is paranoid about his family’s safety. He moves from a nice place in the city to a shoddy tract house in the suburbs to avoid crime. He nags incessantly about his kids leaving their backpacks on the stairs – someone could fall and break their neck. He’s not above trying to teach people lessons, like moving his wife’s car so she’ll think it’s stolen after she left the keys hanging in the front door. And he knows he’s a jerk, but he can’t stop himself. Unfortunately, one of these little tricks leads to a problem that spirals way out of control, landing him with a dead body, counterfeit cash, and some really incriminating film. This is a really funny book. Zack’s paranoia coupled with his obliviousness in other areas is great, I could identify with the whole developer plot, and while it was almost slapstick it was also almost believable. The only problem for me came in the very last pages when Zach does something totally avoidable.Nonetheless, a really good book.

I started this book and thought oh hum another just OK story but as I read it kept getting funnier and the characters more interesting and I started to really like the story. The lead character gets into those same kind of goofy places we all find ourselves once in a while when we try to hard to interfere in other peoples lives. Good story just have patience.