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Metropolitan newspaper writer Zack Walker has a knack for stumbling onto deadly stories. But it’s one that his good friend Trixie Snelling doesn’t want told that’s about to unleash a storm of trouble. As a professional dominatrix in the suburbs, Trixie has her share of secrets, but Zack has no idea what she’s really hiding when a local newspaperman threatens to do an exposé on her…not until Zack finds a dead body strapped to the bondage cross in her basement dungeon.
Now Zack is implicated in a murder, Trixie is missing, and everything he thought he knew about his friend, his town, even his own marriage, reveals a darker side. Zack’s twisted trail to the truth will lead to a long-unsolved triple homicide, bikers, drug wars, and a stone-cold killer hell-bent on revenge. It’s a story that’s already cost him his job and possibly his wife, and, if Zack’s not very lucky, it will cost him his life.
- Sales Rank: #77391 in Books
- Brand: Barclay, Linwood
- Published on: 2007-05-01
- Released on: 2007-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.90" h x 1.00" w x 4.30" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 480 pages
From Publishers Weekly
No good deed goes unpunished in the fourth Zack Walker mystery thriller from Barclay, which finds the newspaper reporter, family man and very reluctant hero just settling back into a semblance of middle-class normalcy after his last adventure (2006's Lone Wolf). That all changes when Zack tries to help good friend, former neighbor and professional dominatrix Trixie Snelling dissuade local tabloid reporter Martin Benson from running a story on her and her business. Not long after Zack tries, unsuccessfully, to persuade Martin to pull the story, Martin turns up dead, tied to a rack with his throat slit, in Trixie's bondage basement—and Trixie, the prime suspect, has disappeared. Zack sets off in search of answers, following a path deep into Trixie's troubled, violent past that could cost him his job, his family and his life. Barclay has a fine ear for dialogue, especially in scenes with Zack and his family, and his expert blend of humor and suspense make this a well-constructed, often witty mystery that's sure to please. (May)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
About the Author
Linwood Barclay is a columnist for the Toronto Star. He is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including Stone Rain and Lone Wolf. He lives near Toronto with his wife and has two grown children.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Chapter One
"YOU HAVE TO EMPTY all the change out of your pockets," the uniformed woman told me. "And I need your wallet."
For a second, I thought about making a joke. Maybe, under less stressful circumstances, I might have. A visit to a prison under normal conditions--does anyone visit a prison under normal conditions?--would have been stressful enough. But my reasons for being here were far from normal. And there wasn't anything normal about the guy sitting in the pickup truck, out in the prison parking lot, waiting for me to do what I'd come here to do.
If I'd just been here doing a story for the Metropolitan, when the female guard asked for my wallet I might have said, What is this, a stickup? They don't pay you enough? And then I would have laughed. Ha-ha.
But there was nothing to suggest that this woman, black, mid-forties, built like a safe, wearing a shiny black belt with a riot stick attached, was feeling all that jocular herself. Maybe working in a prison does that to you. You didn't have to be an inmate to feel the oppressiveness of the place.
I'd already put my cell phone in the plastic tray she'd given me. "Okay, I can see how change would set off this thing," I said, nodding at the security portal, like those ones they have at the airport, that I'd have to walk through to get any further into the prison. "But why do I have to give you my wallet?"
"You can't take any money into the prison," the woman said sternly. "You're not allowed to give money to the inmates." For just a moment, her hand rested on her riot stick. Honestly, I think it was an unconscious gesture, not intended to send a message, but I got one just the same. Don't give me a hard time. That was the message I got.
I am not a big fan of getting whacked in the head with a riot stick. But at that moment, honestly, it's hard to imagine how it could have made things any worse than they already were.
I'd never been in a prison before, let alone a women's prison, and I'd only been at this one for about five minutes, and already I was pretty certain it was not a nice place to be. I got that impression as I approached the main entrance. I walked up to a ten-foot chain-link fence looped at the top with barbed wire, and pressed a button on a small speaker mounted next to the gate.
"Hello?"
A voice, no doubt coming from the building fifty feet beyond the gate, crackled, "Name?"
"Uh, Walker?" Like I wasn't really sure. "Zack Walker?"
Then, nothing. I stood by the gate a good ten seconds, wondering whether I wasn't on the list even though I'd phoned the lawyer--he was supposed to have pulled some strings, called in favors, name your cliche, to get me in here. But then there was a buzzing sound, which was my signal to push the gate wide. I glanced up at the surveillance cameras as I walked up to the main building, which, without the fencing and barbed wire, might have passed for a community college. Once inside, I approached the counter, where I encountered the humorless guard with the riot stick.
"So," I said, trying to make conversation and forget how grave the situation was while I fumbled around for my wallet, seemingly forgetting that it was in my right back pocket, where it has been since I was fifteen, "is this where Martha Stewart did her time?"
Nothing.
Wallet out, I glanced into it, counted seven dollars, before dropping it into the tray with my cell phone. Seven dollars. Then, from the front pockets of my jeans, I dug out fifty-seven cents. How much would $7.57 buy in prison? How many smokes? Wasn't that what everyone wanted money for in prison? Smokes?
The guard slapped a short, stubby key with a square of orange plastic at the end onto the counter, then pointed to a bank of airport-type lockers against the far wall. "You can put your stuff in there," she said. I took my tray of belongings, found the locker that matched the number on the key, and stowed it. I had to print my name in a book, then sign next to it, put down the time of my arrival. They ran a wand over me after I stepped through the security door, making sure I wasn't sneaking in with any weapons.
If only I had a weapon. I wouldn't have to be here now.
Once inside I was directed to a room full of carrels, like you might find in a university library, where students could do their work in private. But this carrel faced onto another one, the two separated by a sheet of glass. Each side had a phone, or at least the handset. No keypad. You didn't dial out for pizza from here.
Just like in the movies.
Another guard, also a woman, said something behind me. "Everything okay here?" I must have jumped. "Just chill," she said, smiling. Then she looked beyond me. "Hey, you're set to go."
I nodded, swallowed, turned back to look at the glass, and there she was, coming through the door of the room I was looking into. My friend Trixie Snelling.
Another female guard directed her to the chair on the other side of the piece of glass. She sat down, and I got my first look at her since her arrest.
I must have been expecting to see her in an orange prison jumpsuit or something, because I did a bit of a double take when she showed up in jeans (minus the belt), a pullover Gap shirt, and sneakers. Trixie, with her jet black hair, dark eyes, and trim figure, could turn heads no matter what she wore. She certainly had no trouble holding someone's attention when, whip in hand, she donned her leather corset and boots, but that was when she was on the clock. Outside of work, even in a pair of sweats, there was no getting around the fact that she was a beautiful and alluring woman.
But I could see that a couple of days in jail had already taken a toll on her. She was without her usual makeup and her eyes were tired, her dark hair less full. I guessed she'd been managing on a lot less sleep than usual.
No surprise there.
Trixie had been a friend--and just a friend--for a few years now. We'd lived a couple of doors down from her when we still had our house in suburban Oakwood. I was working from home back then, and Trixie was operating a home-based business as well. I was naive enough, at first, to think it was accounting. I was not, at the time, a person who was very good at picking up the signals, and there were plenty of them--think of immense, flashing billboards--to indicate that Trixie was not making a living doing people's tax returns.
We'd already established a friendship when I learned the true nature of Trixie's business, and for reasons I can't totally explain, we remained friends. I'm not exactly the kind of person who befriends people who live on the edge of the law.
It's not that I think I'm better than them. It's just that I'm the kind of guy who panics if he hasn't paid his parking ticket on time. Or I would be, if I weren't the kind of person who runs back to the meter five minutes ahead of time to plug in a few more nickels.
Trixie tried to smile as she reached for the phone, but she had to know that this was more than a social visit. There had been some frantic calls in the last hour to allow this face-to-face meeting.
"Zack, Jesus, what are you doing here?"
"Hi, Trixie," I said.
"I get this message, my lawyer's setting up a meeting with you, very urgent. What's going on?"
Her lawyer wouldn't have been able to tell her. I hadn't been able to tell him. I'd had to convince him that he had to let me see his client without revealing why. If Trixie wanted to tell him what I'd had to say, afterwards, that was her call.
It couldn't be mine.
"I have some things to tell you," I said, "but I need you to remain cool when I do."
"What?"
"Are you listening? You have to stay calm and listen to what I have to say."
Her eyes were darting nervously about. No matter how bad she might think what I was going to tell her was, it was going to be worse.
"Okay," she said. "What is it?"
"It's bad," I said, lowering my voice as I spoke into the receiver. "They've got her."
The look in Trixie's eyes told me there was no need to be more specific. She knew exactly who I was talking about.
Of course, I'm getting a bit ahead of myself here. There were a whole lot of things that led up to this point.
And a whole lot that happened after.
Maybe I should back up a bit.
Chapter Two
"I NEED TWENTY BUCKS," said Paul, our seventeen-year-old.
Sarah and I were at the kitchen table, the dirty dinner dishes cleared but still sitting next to the sink, waiting to be dealt with. We had poured ourselves some wine. Sarah had brought home a bottle of Beringer and we had filled our glasses to the top when our son popped his head in.
"What for?" Sarah asked after a large slurp of white zinfandel.
"Just stuff," Paul said. "We might go to the movies or something."
"A movie isn't twenty bucks," I said. "Yet."
Paul sighed. "Popcorn? You want me to watch a movie without popcorn?"
I looked at Sarah. She said, "I wouldn't be able to sleep if that happened."
I said, "Didn't I give you twenty bucks a couple of days ago?"
Another sigh. "It was three days ago."
"Okay," I said. "So it was three days ago. Where did that twenty dollars go?"
"Screw it, never mind," Paul said, and withdrew.
"Hang on a second, pal," I said, and was starting to get up from my chair when Sarah reached over and grabbed my arm.
"Sit down," she said. "Let him go." I settled back into the chair. "Have some more wine." She topped up my glass. "He's just being a D.H." Parental shorthand for dickhead.
"No kidding," I said. Paul's in his last year of high school, and he's a pretty good kid, all things considered. But sometimes, I just wanted to ground him for a month or two, only at someone else's house.
I sipped my wine.
"Not like that," Sarah said. "You're drinking like a girl. Here, watch me." She tipped back her nearly full glass, polished it off in four swallows. She put the glass back down, said, "Hit me."
I filled it.
"We need to do this more often," Sarah said. "It's been kind of stressful around here lately, in case you hadn't noticed."
No kidding. I'd been home only a couple of days, having returned from my father's fishing camp, where, not to understate it or anything, all hell had broken loose. It was the third time in as many years that I'd found myself in a pickle--now there's a word for it--for which I had no training, and where I was in way over my head.
I had promised Sarah, and myself, that no more would I allow myself to get sucked into dangerous situations, not that I had wanted it to happen those other times. I wasn't cut out for it. I was, and am, a writer of so-so science fiction novels, paying the bills writing features for the Metropolitan newspaper, where Sarah is, depending on the day, my editor. At a large daily newspaper, you can get chewed out by so many people higher up the food chain than yourself that it's hard to narrow down the bosses to whom you report to just one person.
"Yeah," I said, "very stressful. But he doesn't make it any easier, acting like that. And I swear, he's hitting me up for ten, twenty bucks every day, it seems. And it's just entertainment. Renting movies, seeing movies, buying video games. I don't spend what he does on enter--"
"Drink," Sarah said.
I obeyed. "Do we have another bottle of this stuff?" I asked. Sarah nodded. "Where's Angie tonight?"
Angie was in her second year at Mackenzie University, but since the school was in the city, and we lived in that city, she was not in residence.
"Class," Sarah said. "Evening lecture or something."
"I hardly ever see her around here. Sometimes I don't even think she comes home every night."
"She has a boyfriend," Sarah said. The comment hung in the air for a while, which gave me time to consider its implications. "And she's nearly twenty," Sarah said. "If she boarded at university, if she'd gone clear across the country somewhere, you'd never know when she came home and when she didn't."
I finished off my glass, got up, and went to the fridge. "Where's the other bottle?"
"It's in there, just look," Sarah said. "Did I tell you about the foreign editor thing?"
"What foreign editor thing?"
"They posted it. They need a new foreign editor. Garth's going to the editorial board, where he can write 'on the one hand this, on the other hand that.' "
"Are you sure there's another bottle?"
"Do I have to come over there myself and embarrass you?"
"Look, I'm either going blind or there's no wine in here at--hang on, here it is. Okay, so, you want that job?"
"It's a step up from features editor. More staff, bigger stories, a larger budget to watch over."
"More headaches."
"It's a good step for me. If I ever want Magnuson's job." Bertrand Magnuson, the managing editor, who gave every indication that he was barely tolerating me. I'd gotten some big stories since joining the Metropolitan, but they'd had a way of falling into my lap. That didn't count, in Magnuson's book.
"You want that job?" I asked. "Magnuson's?"
"Eventually, why not? The paper's never had a woman managing editor, has it?"
"I don't think so."
"There's only one little problem," Sarah said.
"What's that?"
"I find it hard keeping all those foreign countries straight. All those stan places."
"That could be a problem," I said, rooting through the drawer for the corkscrew.
"What are you doing?"
"Where's the fucking corkscrew?"
"It's here on the table, Sherlock."
I sat back down, went to work opening the bottle. Sarah said, "You're going to have to help me. Quiz me on foreign events. I've been working with the Metro file so long, I don't know what's going on anyplace in the world other than this city."
"Hitler's dead," I said. "And Maggie Thatcher? Not a prime minister anymore. Oh, and there was that guy? The one who walked on the moon? The moon counts as foreign, right?"
"You'll help me?" She wanted me to be serious for a moment.
"I will help you."
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
The Best Walker Adventure Since Bad Move!
By James N Simpson
This is the fourth novel read through the eyes of the main character Zack Walker. Zack isn't the brightest guy in the world but he is certainly one of the most loyal to his family and friends. So when his ex neighbour Trixie Snelling, wants him to intervene and stop a journalist from writing a story on her and her bondage business which operates out of her basement, even though he knows doing so is unethical, may get his own journalistic career in jeopardy and most importantly his wife sort of doesn't like him spending time with the beautiful ex neighbour, he does anyway. Of course as always everything goes wrong and not only does he bring a lot of problems for himself and his wife at the Metropolitan newspaper, the story appears anyway. With his marriage falling apart, unemployment beckoning he decides to meet with Trixie once and for all and tell her she can't be a part of his life any longer. Meeting her at her house she is late, the lock doesn't seem to be engaged when she finally gets there and the reporter who caused all the problems is strapped to a bondage cross in the basement with his throat cut. Well his wife is definilty going to find out he was visiting now, especially since Trixie handcuffed him to the stairs and called her to come rescue him as she stole his car and fled. Throw in his son's first job at burger place that doesn't believe in health regulations run by some huge fat woman who don't take kindly to interfearers like him, a bad guy who picks his nose all the time and his marriage is going to be the least of his problems!
Stone Rain is good in that we get to learn a lot more about one of the other main characters in Barclay's debut novel Bad Move in Trixie. Like the other two sequels before this, Barclay does like to recount what went on in the former novels just for the sake of it when it isn't necessary for the story so I highly recommend reading these in order so your surprise and enjoyment factor isn't lessened. Plus you've still got the need for very convenient things to happen for Zack to get out of situations and the age old well why wouldn't you just call the cops when you're visiting the prison and the whole end part of the book wouldn't have needed to happen.
Barclay has gone on to write a couple of independent storyline novels, this is the last in the Zack Walker series at the time of this review however this story leaves it open for more in the future. The standalone stories such written more like Harlan Coben novels than Carl Hiaasen who this series was compared to, such as the masterpieces No Time for Goodbye and Too Close to Home have however been a lot more successful so it may be a while before Barclay reintroduces Zack to the pages.
If you haven't already done so, go and grab a copy of Bad Move and see just how good a character Zack Walker was before he lost the teach his family lessons, extreme cotton wool parenting trait.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Zack Walker's Fourth Outing another Good Read
By Debra Hamel
In Linwood Barclay's fourth novel featuring trepid newspaper writer Zack Walker, Zack falls into two dangerous situations. His friend Trixie Snelling, accountant turned dominatrix, calls asking for help with a reporter who's been buzzing around her for a story. For reasons that later become clear, she's terrified of having her picture printed in the paper. And Zack's son Paul takes a job as a fry cook, only to discover that the trio of muscular Slavic women running the burger joint are serving up E. coli with their fries. The two threads of the story eventually combine, with both sets of bad guys intent on killing or maiming Zack, albeit with very different weapons. As usual, Zack's tendency to fall into trouble and not come clean about it soon enough also gets him in hot water at home. But what's unusual about this book is that the main story is punctuated by chapters detailing Trixie's colorful back story. This is necessary for our understanding, but for me these were the low points of the book. Frankly, I don't find Trixie a very interesting or sympathetic character. She's made a number of mistakes in her life that have put her friends and family in danger. And while one can try to exonerate her by saying that she was forced into them by her situation, well, she really wasn't. Given at various times in life a choice of two directions to take, she has invariably made the worse choice. So, I don't really care what happens to her. Barclay, however, tells a great story, and he ties up the various strands of the plot very neatly at the end. Still, if there's to be another Zack Walker novel, I'd prefer that the troubles Zack faces be closer to home. And, generally speaking, the more we see of Zack's friend, the enigmatic private eye Lawrence Jones, the better (provided that he, unlike Trixie in this outing, remains enigmatic).
-- Debra Hamel
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Stone rain pour laughs and thrills
By Kindle Customer
I am an unabashed fan of Linwood Barclay's books. His character development is first rate, his plots are right in line with what really happens in life stretched out just a tad and he is hysterically funny. His hero, Zack, (if one can call an obsessive-compulsive worrier who lucks out when confronted with danger a hero) mirrors the way our society is trying to protect everyone to the point that we take all the fun out of life. I find myself laughing out loud at the twists and turns, Zack's interior monologues and ludicrous - yet somehow logical- solutions to the problems he encounters. That's a rarity for me, because most authors seem to try too hard for my taste. I wish someone would pick up these characters and make a series or movie (as long as they do it well and are faithful to his voice), so more people would read Barclay's books. If you like mysteries, love a laugh and want a fun read that you can't put down, give Barclay a try. Start at the beginning with his first book, though, because while they stand alone, there's more impact if you follow Zack from his very first encounter with criminal behavior. Stone Rain is the fourth, and I have to wait months for the next in the series.
Oh no, now I'M worried other readers won't get Barclay's sense of irony. I guess Zack is a little contagious!
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