Bad Bad Seymour Brown

<b>Susan Isaacs</b> is the author of thirteen novels including <i>Takes One to Know One</i> <i>As Husbands Go</i> <i>Long Time No See</i> and <i>Compromising Positions. </i>A recipient of the Writers for Writers Award and the John Steinbeck Award Isaacs serves as chairman of the board of Poets &amp; 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. <b>'Both witty and gripping this is ultra-sleek storytelling with two delightful investigators' <i>Daily Mail </i></b><br>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 FBI.<br><br>But then her retired NYPD detective father gets a call from academic April Brown - one of the victims of a case he was never able to solve. When April was five she emerged unscathed from the arson that killed her parents. Now two decades later someone has made an attempt on her life. It takes only a nanosecond for Corie and her dad to launch a full-fledged investigation.<br><br>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 April Brown has no enemies. Well-liked by her students admired by her colleagues who would want her dead now? And who set that horrific fire all those years ago?<br><br>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 <i>Bad Bad Seymour Brown</i> is another standout hit from the beloved Susan Isaacs. Former FBI agent Corie Geller and her retired cop dad must solve one of the NYPD's coldest homicide cases - before the crime's sole survivor is killed. Both <b>witty and gripping</b> this is ultra-sleek storytelling with two delightful investigators.' The <b>thoroughly enjoyable</b> plot brims with misdirection and red herrings. And like other Isaacs characters Corie Geller is wonderful company for the reader As a narrator [Corie] herself is <b>a formidable raconteur</b> as generous with details as Proust as full of anecdote as a suburban Scheherazade Offbeat characters witty narration and a winsome father-daughter dynamic complement Isaacs's clever if madcap plot. Fans of breezy suspense will be delighted I can think of no other novelist - popular or highbrow - who consistently celebrates female gutsiness brains and sexuality. She's Jane Austen with a schmear. Nobody does smart gutsy funny sexy women better than Susan Isaacs. What is it that makes Susan Isaacs' books so delicious to read? She's funny for starters. And that humour combined with romance and old-fashioned murder mystery tickles every feel-good bone in our bodies. Her characters are whole and flawed and lovable and you want only the best for them even as you ardently wish to find them in danger - repeatedly - along the way. Both <b>witty and gripping</b> this is ultra-sleek storytelling with two delightful investigators.' The <b>thoroughly enjoyable</b> plot brims with misdirection and red herrings. And like other Isaacs characters Corie Geller is wonderful company for the reader As a narrator [Corie] herself is <b>a formidable raconteur</b> as generous with details as Proust as full of anecdote as a suburban Scheherazade Offbeat characters witty narration and a winsome father-daughter dynamic complement Isaacs's clever if madcap plot. Fans of breezy suspense will be delighted I can think of no other novelist - popular or highbrow - who consistently celebrates female gutsiness brains and sexuality. She's Jane Austen with a schmear. Nobody does smart gutsy funny sexy women better than Susan Isaacs. What is it that makes Susan Isaacs' books so delicious to read? She's funny for starters. And that humour combined with romance and old-fashioned murder mystery tickles every feel-good bone in our bodies. Her characters are whole and flawed and lovable and you want only the best for them even as you ardently wish to find them in danger - repeatedly - along the way.