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Title: The Good and the Dead

Author: Seymor Shubin

Narrator: Ron Varela

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-12

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

True-Detective Mystery author Ben Newman has written about scores of murders, and thinks he has seen it all, until he is confronted with murders of adults from his childhood neighborhood. The first is his brothers wife, her body found floating in the family swimming pool. Suspicion immediately falls on Bens brother, the good doctor. The death of a childhood friend turned pharmacist, and then a former flame of Bens turns the investigation away from Bens brother. More friends re-enter Bens life only to mysteriously die. He and Lt. Gowan team up to track down the murderer as the list of missing and dead friends grows. Hovering in the background is a kindly and helpful stranger who may hold the key to the string of deaths.

Members Reviews:

Gripping and deadly nostalgia

Seymour Shubin, author of this engaging novel, has been an Edgar finalist. It's understandable when you read this, his eleventh novel. Here is a story that will tap the nostalgia factor in every reader. Here is a story that crawls inside our hearts, that has us nodding in vivid recall as we walk with writer Ben Newman back down the streets of time, into his childhood.

Here is a story that from the first chapter catches at our fading memories. And something more. Because the mind works in strange ways, many times suppressing or erasing the bad times, the things we did as a child of which we are ashamed, or a little mbarrassed about. If we pick at those memories, sometimes what we discover, is that the reality of those events of years ago are not exactly what we remember.

And sometimes, sometimes, participants in those old memories come back to haunt us. From the very beginning, Shubin's prose takes us first by the hand, and then by the throat. Ben Newman returns to his old neighborhood when his brother's wife dies in a tragic accident. As the spiral tightens and mistakes and missteps by Ben's brother bring police focus to the possibility that the woman was murdered, Ben begins a voyage of discovery. It's a voyage with increasing tension and suspense because Ben begins to discover that perhaps the woman was murdered, not by her husband, Ben's brother, but by someone from Ben's elementary school past. And it appears a killer is stalking Ben's former classmates in an effort to repay an old debt.

The book is properly called psychological suspense, and it is a thriller. Anyone who reads this engaging novel will come away with a different understanding and perhaps an altered perspective on their golden youthful days in elementary school.

A telling Tale

He has written many true crime stories for various magazines and has had one book published, but he never expected to be more than an observer on a homicide case. He revises his assessment when his brother calls to tell him that the police think he killed his wife. Ben Newman knows his sibling is not a murderer.

At his sister-in-law's funeral, Ellen Strickland informs Ben that an old classmate of theirs, Gerry Havers committed suicide three weeks ago. The next day, Ellen is found dead from a supposed car accident. Another classmate soon dies too. Ben concludes that someone has targeted his elementary school class and he feels he must discover who is the culpriit before anyone else dies.

Seymour Shubin is a gifted storyteller who creates a chilling psychological suspense tale.