New novel by Sean Cronin, West Hartford resident...

“A Perfect Double” - Although tall, thin, blond and gorgeous, Breken Annersen suffers from body dysmorphic disorder. She’s got a ‘glamor job’ at an international gossip magazine, but dreams of a Pulitzer.

All Brek WANTS on her Paris assignment is some dirt on a few starlets at a chic film soiree with handsome, irreverent freelancer, Hutch Branigan. But when a terrorist bomb rips the star-studded event apart, she GETS a new job description, chasing terrorists. Brek and Hutch, this tossed-together pair, witnesses the murder of a starlet who'd been at the Paris bombing, and hours later see the U.S. ambassador's daughter immolated on a dark fortress wall at the Cannes Film Festival. And now, there’s a hit man on their trail.

The 'glamor job' turns into a whodunit for Brek and Hutch. Their hunt leads them through a maze of diplomats, suave singers, movie stars and prostitutes, the FBI and the Mafia. From the French Rivera to the Swiss mountains they find MURDER, CORRUPTION and espionage born in Kabul, that spreads across Europe and the U.S. And amid the peril and violence, Brek and Hutch find a smoldering ATTRACTION for each other. Which could lead to romance, or heartbreak, or worse.


Sean Cronin is a 5-star Amazon author, a Goodreads "Five out of Five Stars” novelist and winner of three EFFIE awards. He is the author of the critically acclaimed noir novel, Sharp 9th, a Skinner Malloy Mystery. Cronin, is a former Fortune 500 executive and holds an M.S. from the University of Chicago.