About the Author

linwood barclay is a staff columnist for the Toronto Star, where he has worked for more than twenty years. He's the author of four books published in Canada, including his memoir, Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Bad Move is his first novel. He lives in Burlington, Ontario, with his wife and two children, where he is at work on the sequel to Bad Move.