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“Susan Isaacs has spent her career writing about what shenonce characterized as “brave dames”: assertive, self-possessed women — sometimesnsaddled with a neurosis or two — who were fulfilled by marriage and family butnhardly defined by them, and who had a natural ability to solve murders… Thenthoroughly enjoyable plot brims with misdirection and red herrings. And likenother Isaacs characters, Corie Geller is wonderful company for the reader.”xa0— Sarah Weinman, New York Times “Offbeat characters, witty narration, and a winsomenfather-daughter dynamic complement Isaacs’s clever if madcap plot. Fans ofnbreezy suspense will be delighted.”— Publishers Weekly Praise for Susan Isaacs : “I can think of no other novelist—popular or highbrow—whonconsistently celebrates female gutsiness, brains and sexuality. She’s JanenAusten with a schmear.”xa0— NPR’s Fresh Air “A witty, wry observer of contemporary life."xa0— The Washington Post “ Nobody does smart, gutsy, funny, sexy womennbetter than Susan Isaacs .”xa0— ThenWashington Post “The women whoninhabit Isaacs’ books are smart, sexy, a little snarky, and filled with somenserious chutzpah.”xa0— Rachel Martin NPR’s Weekend Edition “Ms. Isaacs is a witty author, but comedy gives way tonterror as Corie’s inevitable confrontation with her dangerous quarry nears. Allnthe foreshadowing and presaging pays off in spades, and the scenes that tie upnloose ends are a pleasure to read.”— Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal “What is it that makes Susan Isaacs’ books so delicious tonread? She’s funny, for starters. And that humor combined with romance andnold-fashioned murder mystery tickles every feel-good bone in our bodies. Herncharacters are whole and flawed and lovable, and you want only the best fornthem, even as you ardently wish to find them in danger — repeatedly — along thenway.”— New Yorkxa0Newsday “There are so many layers — and thrilling twists and turns —nthat you won’t want to put it down.”— InTouch SUSAN ISAACS is the author of thirteen novels,nincluding Takes One to Know One, As Husbands Go , Long TimenNo See , Any Place I Hang My Hat and CompromisingnPositions . A recipient of the Writers for Writers Award and the JohnnSteinbeck Award, Isaacs serves as chairman of the board of Poets & Writers,nand is a past president of Mystery Writers of America. Her fiction has beenntranslated into 30 languages. She lives on Long Island with her husband.
Features & Highlights
- 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.
