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Bad, Bad Seymour Brown

Bad, Bad Seymour Brown 1

by Susan Isaacs
Hardback
Publication Date: 07/09/2023
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New York Times bestselling author Susan Isaacs returns to a pair of her readers' favorite characters, former FBI agent Corie Geller and her retired cop dad, who must solve one of the NYPD's coldest homicide cases--before the crime's sole survivor is killed.

When Corie Geller asked her parents to move from their apartment into the suburban McMansion she shares with her husband and teenage daughter, she assumed they'd fit right in with the placid life she'd opted for when she left the Joint Anti-terrorism Task Force of the FBI.

But then her retired NYPD detective father gets a call from good-natured and slightly nerdy film professor April Brown--one of the victims of a case he was never able to solve. When April was a five-year-old, she'd emerged unscathed from the arson that killed her parents. Now, two decades later, April is asking for help. Someone has made an attempt on her life. It takes only a nanosecond for Corie and her dad to say yes, and they jump into a full-fledged investigation.

If they don't move fast, whoever attacked April is sure to strike again. But while her late father, Seymour Brown, was the go-to money launderer for the Russian mob - a mercurial and violent man with a penchant for Swiss watches and cheating on his wife - April Brown has no enemies. Well-liked by her students, admired by her colleagues, her only connection to crime is her passion for the noir movies of Hollywood's golden age. Who would want her dead now? And who set that horrific fire, all those years ago?

The stakes have never been higher. Yet as Corie and her dad are realizing, they still live for the chase. Savvy and surprising, witty and gripping, Bad, Bad Seymour Brown is another standout hit from the beloved Susan Isaacs.

ISBN:
9780802159069
9780802159069
Category:
Crime & Mystery
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
07-09-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4x33.27mm
Weight:
0.54kg
Susan Isaacs

Susan Isaacs is the author of thirteen novels, including As Husbands Go, Long Time No See, Any Place I Hang My Hat and Compromising Positions.

A recipient of the Writers for Writers Award and the John Steinbeck Award, Isaacs serves as chairman of the board of Poets & Writers, and is a past president of Mystery Writers of America. Her fiction has been translated into 30 languages. She lives on Long Island with her husband.

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Bad Bad Seymour Brown is the second book in the Corie Geller series by award-winning American author, Susan Isaacs. A little bored with being a literary scout, and still affected by PTSD from a nasty episode a year earlier, ex-FBI Special Agent Corie Geller is ready for something else. And when her dad, former NYPD cop, Dan Schottland gets a request for help from the only survivor of his most troubling cold case, she’s in.

Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at Rutgers University, April Brown has been targeted by someone in a dark SUV. Local police have done what they can, but are dismissive of April’s history. Over twenty years earlier, she survived, by climbing out the window, the deliberately-set housefire that killed her parents, Seymour and Kimberly Brown; a fire so intense that it completely obliterated their home, and almost every trace of the victims.

Seymour Brown was a CPA who laundered money for the Russian mob, and one theory was always that they took revenge because he hid their money too well. But April was five when the arson happened: what could the Russians, or anyone, want with her now?

Dan and Corie focus on Seymour Brown and the arson, meticulously going over every detail and interviewing everyone they can find with even the vaguest connection to the case, but particularly Seymour’s driver, his mistress and his business partner. That takes quite a bit of string-pulling and lateral thinking, and sometimes they need to use a proxy to get their information.

Particularly puzzling is the complete absence of any trace, any history, of Seymour before he qualified as a CPA. Just who was this mystery man? Whoever he was, he could be quite nasty at times so they can’t dismiss the idea that a disgruntled employee or an angry ex-girlfriend took action.

While there are some spoilers for the first book, this one can easily stand alone, and after Corie and Dan have been working together for a while, they decide to get their PI licences, so more of this likeable duo is probably in the pipeline. Isaacs gives the reader a few twists and red herrings in the lead up to an exciting climax. This is a very enjoyable cosy crime series.
This unbiased review is from an uncorrected proof copy provided by NetGalley and Grove Atlantic.

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