Stone Rain
by Linwood Barclay
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Author: Linwood BarclayEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-01
ISBN: 0553804561
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Bantam
Book Reviews of Stone Rain
Book Review: The Best Walker Adventure Since Bad Move!
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Summary of Stone Rain
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.
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