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Casey Barrett

Casey Barrett

Casey Barrett is the author of the Duck Darley crime series. His debut, UNDER WATER, was nominated for a Shamus Award in 2018. He is a Canadian Olympic swimmer and is the co-founder of Imagine Swimming, New York City’s largest learn-to-swim school. He has won three Emmys and one Peabody award for his work on NBC’s broadcasts of the Olympic Games. Casey lives in Manhattan and the Catskill mountains of New York with his wife, daughter, and dog. Visit caseybarrettbooks.com

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Casey Barrett

Thrillers

When the Killer is “Someone We Know”

‘Domestic suspense’ – It’s a rather loaded term for a subgenre, isn’t it? It seems, intended or otherwise, to be a marketing phrase coined to target a very specific set of readers: ie suburban moms who love mysteries and thrillers. Don’t get me wrong, like the ‘soccer mom’ vote, this…
Casey Barrett
July 30, 2019
Thrillers

How Far Would You Go to Save Your Child?

A few weeks ago, I met Adrian McKinty in the back room of a slick Manhattan bar. It was a tri-author book event hosted by Little, Brown, but really it was McKinty I was there to see. I was a fan, and I also felt a personal ‘thank you’ was…
Casey Barrett
July 9, 2019
Fiction

Atkinson’s Latest Blends Crime and Literary Fiction

There are crime writers who will bristle at the worn critic’s backhand: that one’s book transcends the genre. Which is to say – for someone who works in a cliché and plot-bound ghetto, the writing is pretty darn good. Such faint praise has been known to grate. I suspect Kate…
Casey Barrett
June 27, 2019
Nonfiction

Bret Easton Ellis Continues to Offend and Astonish

The man knows how to touch a nerve. Relishes it, in fact, despite his protestations that he “was never good at realizing what might offend someone anyway.” Please. This is Bret Easton Ellis we’re talking about, author of Less Than Zero, creator of Patrick Bateman, Twitter provocateur par excellence. He’s…
Casey Barrett
April 15, 2019
Thrillers

It’s Cotton Malone vs. the Knights of Malta

No one sells over 20 million books without understanding how to hook a reader. Over the past 17 years, and now with his 18th novel, The Malta Exchange (Minotaur Books), Steve Berry has mastered the art of page-turning. That elusive art is really the lifeblood of publishing. It’s a simple…
Casey Barrett
March 15, 2019

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