Casey Barrett

A Druggie, a Dominatrix and a Tower of Songs

Who doesn’t love an irreverent badass who admits he’s a screw-up? Duck Darley is the most damaged anti-hero you’d never want to meet in a dark corner of New York City. In Casey Barrett’s The Tower of Songs: A Duck Darley Novel (Kensington) East meets West when a Chinese power…

K.L. RomoAugust 20, 2019

Thrillers

Casey Barrett’s Odd Duck Investigator Probes Murder

Shadowed by ruthless criminals and lured in by his impossibly sexy yet newly vulnerable business partner, P.I. Duck Darley struggles to stay sober and alive as he runs a reckless murder investigation. The victim was his business partner's boyfriend, a journalist who was about to uncover the horrors of doping…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMarch 20, 2019

Thrillers

From Lawyers to Cowboys: Jon Land’s Top August Thrillers

Always to the rescue with the next best reads, Jon Land shares his favorite thrillers of August. https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Outfox-400x603.jpg Sandra Brown continues her string of remarkable hardcore thrillers with the canny and clever Outfox (Grand Central). This neo-noir crime story reads like modern-day James M. Cain. FBI agent Drex Easton has…

Jon LandAugust 14, 2019

Miscellany

Books to Take You to Tokyo and Beyond, Ava Gardner’s Many Loves and Gatsby Lived Where?

BookTrib wants to keep you in the book news loop! Each week our editors take a pulse on what’s happening in the book world and hand pick stories, tidbits and reviews you may have missed. 10 Books to Introduce Readers to Japan's Vast and Beautiful Capital City of Tokyo —…

BookTribJune 12, 2020

Miscellany

Thriller Inception, Kevin Kwan’s Next Hit and Books to Bring the Beach to You

BookTrib wants to keep you in the book news loop! Each week our editors take a pulse on what’s happening in the book world and hand pick stories, tidbits and reviews you may have missed. The Role Crime Writers Play in Police Brutality: A Frank Conversation With Promising Debut Author…

BookTribJuly 2, 2020

Miscellany

Romancing the Drunk: On the Enduring Allure of the Dissipated Writer

I blame Hunter Thompson. Has there ever been a man who wrote more seductively of the mad intensity and unhinged fun brought on by a life of drugs and drink? His sentences were among the most eloquent ever composed in the English language. The example he set with his prose…

Casey BarrettJune 11, 2020

Facebook Live Fiction Thrillers

Hank Phillippi Ryan: Let’s Go Undercover and Ponder Identity

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/HPR-Recap-1.jpg A devastating childhood betrayal, an undercover reporter who is in too deep, a beautiful sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay, a rich and powerful family, and an ice pick that is not used for ice — these five elements come together in Hank Phillippi Ryan's explosive new release, The First to…

BookTribAugust 4, 2020

Facebook Live

Will PI Characters Solve Crime Via Zoom? | Kristen Lepionka

Two-time Shamus Award-winning author Kristen Lepionka and 2020 Shamus Award finalist Casey Barrett sat down for a chat via BookTrib's Facebook Live to discuss Lepionka's recent release Once You Go This Far, PI tropes and how the pandemic has affected launching a book. Click here for previous interviews and a list of…

BookTribJuly 21, 2020

Facebook Live

What Role Do Crime Writers Play in Police Brutality? — A Frank Conversation

It all started with a tweet. John Fram, frustrated by the police and too angry to sit down and write like he usually would, took to twitter to question what he saw as "a huge blind spot" with respect to how Americans, especially white American writers, depict police. You know…

BookTribJuly 1, 2020

Author Discovery Zone

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Author-pic-June-2020-scaled.jpg Casey Barrett Crime Fiction Olympic-swimmer-turned-thriller-author via PI Duck Darley scraping by and chasing down cheating spouses for Manhattan’s elite. Under Water (2017) Against Nature (2018) The Tower of Songs (2019) Biggest literary influencers: Ross MacDonald, Hunter S. Thompson, John D. MacDonald, Benjamin Black, Ken Bruen, James Lee Burke, Lawrence…

BookTribFebruary 6, 2019

Casey Barrett

A Druggie, a Dominatrix and a Tower of Songs

Casey Barrett’s Odd Duck Investigator Probes Murder

From Lawyers to Cowboys: Jon Land’s Top August Thrillers

Books to Take You to Tokyo and Beyond, Ava Gardner’s Many Loves and Gatsby Lived Where?

Thriller Inception, Kevin Kwan’s Next Hit and Books to Bring the Beach to You

Romancing the Drunk: On the Enduring Allure of the Dissipated Writer

Hank Phillippi Ryan: Let’s Go Undercover and Ponder Identity

Will PI Characters Solve Crime Via Zoom? | Kristen Lepionka

What Role Do Crime Writers Play in Police Brutality? — A Frank Conversation

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