
Westport
Kindle Edition
The Mysterious Press · Ebook · May 21, 2024
A red canoe sits abandoned on Seymour Rock, right where the Saugatuck River hits the Long Island Sound.
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- Who it’s for
- A workplace murder brings legal instincts and hedge-fund secrets into the same tense investigation.
- Themes
- Murder, High finance, Workplace secrets
- Genres
- Legal Thrillers, Suspense, Political Thrillers
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A red canoe sits abandoned on Seymour Rock, right where the Saugatuck River hits the Long Island Sound. The elegantly dressed corpse of a woman lies inside.... It's been two years since Nora Carleton left the job she loved at the US Attorney's Office to become lead counsel at Saugatuck Associates, the world's largest hedge fund. The career change also meant a change of scenery, relocating her to Westport, Connecticut, fifty miles north of New York City.
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But it was worth it to get her daughter, Sophie, away from the city. Plus, she likes the people she works with. Especially Helen, who recruited Nora because of her skills as an investigator. Then Nora's new life falls apart when a coworker is murdered and she becomes the lead suspect. Nora calls in her old colleagues from the US Attorney's Office, Mafia investigator Benny Dugan and attorney Carmen Garcia. To clear Nora's name, Benny and Carmen hunt for the true killer's motive, but it seems nearly everyone at Saugatuck has secrets worth killing for. As Benny sets out to interrogate her colleagues, Nora examines her history with the company to determine who set her up to take the fall. A suspenseful and intriguing tale of high finance and murder, Westport features the characters first introduced in James Comey's debut novel Central Park West but can also be read on its own. It further establishes Comey as "a bold new talent in the mystery genre" (Harlan Coben).
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A workplace murder brings legal instincts and hedge-fund secrets into the same tense investigation.
Come here for
- Crime fiction with a high-finance workplace at its center
- A suspect’s fight to clear her name
Expect
- Legal and investigative angles in the same mystery
- A standalone read featuring characters from an earlier novel
Where it sits
| Legal Thrillers | 51% |
|---|---|
| Suspense | 26% |
| Political Thrillers | 22% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Legal Thrillers
- Political Thrillers
- Domestic Thrillers
- Authors
- James Comey
- Publisher
- The Mysterious Press
- Published
- May 21, 2024
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Murder · High finance · Workplace secrets
- Reading lane
- Legal Thrillers