This is the first in a series (of 2 book so far) and I wanted to read book #2 but it didn’t seem wise without having read book #1 – sooooo – 

I know I’ve read something by Susan Isaacs before but she’s written a couple of short series and quite a number of standalone, none of them which were recognizable from their titles alone and that reading would have been probably 15-20 years ago.  

Takes One To Know One 
by Susan Isaacs 2019 
Read by Mia Barron, 13h 56m
Rating: A / crime
*1st in Corie Geller series

In the first chapters of the book, the voice of the narrator, Mia Barron, was a bit annoying, but that ended up playing into Corie’s character so it all worked together and I enjoyed the read enormously.  I look forward to #2 in the series,  Bad, Bad Seymour Brown.   

At first Corie  seems rather silly and flighty but she’s really very smart and wonderfully witty with humor which is on the light and dry side. But because the book is not noir crime it also moves, for the most part, at less than a thriller’s pace and after Chapter 4 kept my attention. In Chapter 13 (somewhat less than half-way) it grabbed me and never let go – I’ll be diving into book #2 within a day or so – LOL)  

The main character, Corie Geller. is a 30-something year old woman who “retired” from the FBI to marry a normal suburban type lawyer and now makes her life with him, his 14-year old daughter, and their small dog.  It works.  She reads books for a literary agency and has a regular luncheon meet-up with other free-lance FBI agents; they’ve done this for years. The thing is that one member, Pete Delaney, who is employed as a package designer, is kind of too normal and a bit too quiet and he has some traits which might be considered OCD.  He seems to change phones frequently and watches his car like a hawk.   (And I’ll stop there due to probable spoilers.)