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Linwood Barclay
About Linwood Barclay
Linwood Barclay started his journalism career in 1977 at the Peterborough Examiner, moved on to a small Oakville paper in 1979, and then to the Toronto Star in 1981 where he was, successively, assistant city editor, news editor, chief copy editor and Life section editor. He is now a staff columnist for that section, writing three times a week. His previous books are FATHER KNOWS ZILCH, THIS HOUSE IS NUTS!, and MIKE HARRIS MADE ME EAT MY DOG. He lives in Burlington, Ontario, with his wife, Neetha.
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New in Hardcover:
 BAD GUYS
Bantam
ISBN: 0553803867
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In this follow-up to Linwood Barclay's debut novel, Zack Walker and his family have moved back to the city, where he has taken a job as a features writer for a newspaper. While researching his first feature article, Zack stumbles upon a real-life crime scene --- but what seems like an ordinary hit-and-run may actually be a homicide linked to a gang that's been burglarizing the city's high-end shops.
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New in Paperback:
 BAD MOVE
Bantam
ISBN: 0553587048
(On Sale June 1, 2004)
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Anyone who thinks that the burbs are boring will think again after reading Linwood Barclay's hilarious debut mystery, BAD MOVE. Zack Walker is a safety obsessed dad who quickly finds that his suburban neighborhood is not a crime-free paradise, Crime escalates from petty thievery and drugs to murder and Zack's paranoid tendencies get him implicated in the crime. What does he do? He heads off to track down the killer himself.
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Winners of the ARC Mailing
The following 10 readers have been selected to read BAD MOVE by Linwood Barclay:
- briehoecherl@hotmail.com
- cheesygiraffe@yahoo.com
- coolcat@shelby.net
- dani-lynn-g@earthlink.net
- gprivat@bellsouth.net
- IREFAILTE@aol.com
- jzquilter@comcast.net
- karyn@stny.rr.com
- Legal1277@aol.com
- rwiddoes@kaeskelaw.com
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