Bad, Bad Seymour Brown is the second novel in Susan Isaacs’ Corie Geller series. If you’d like to read my review of the first novel in the series, It Takes One to Know One, just follow this link.
Anyway, Corie used to be an FBI agent. Her dad used to be a NYPD detective. Now, they both live on Long Island in Corie’s mansion, which they share with Corie’s husband, her stepdaughter, and her mother. Corie married into the mansion. Her parents moved in during COVID so they could all be together for the lockdown. Once the lockdown ended, her parents stayed, and everyone is happy with the arraignment. The lockdown, however, ended Corie’s freelance literary scout gig, and her father hated retirement. So, in Bad, Bad Seymour Brown, they team up to solve a cold case Corie’s dad was never able to solve during his time with the NYPD.
It all started when Corie’s dad investigated the arson fire that killed April Brown’s parents twenty-some years ago. April escaped the fire, but she was only five years old at the time. Nothing she was able to tell Corie’s dad helped his investigation, and it went cold. Then years later, someone tries to kill April, and she contacts Corie’s dad to help her find out who wants her dead. Corie and her dad gladly take the case, and not only do they find the person who is currently terrorizing April, but they also solve the arson that killed her parents all those years ago.
I feel like Bad, Bad Seymour Brown is a master class in the minutiae involved in the private investigative process. It’s not all fun and excitement. It’s boring and slow at times, which I image is exactly what a real private investigator experiences. Yet, the novel kept my interest. I loved the process. It gave me a chance to live out the fantasy I’ve always had of working as a P.I. And I loved that Corie and her dad officially became a team and opened their own P.I. firm. I hope there are more books to come in this series.
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