Reviews: Inside Passage

“The world’s best mystery writers — Chandler, Hammett, Sayers — create a sense of place where their characters live and breathe and stab people, while making us feel like any one of us could be in their shoes. Burt Weissbourd’s Corey Logan Trilogy is in that tradition … living through stories that would give any one of us the chills.” – Brendan Kiley, The Stranger, arts and culture reporter, The Seattle Times

“Pick it up and dive in … Get inside the head of each fascinating character and work out the intricacies yourself, following the swell of action page after page.”– The (not always) Lazy W … Marie

“Inside Passage is a great thriller and the restaurants you include as part of the story: Canlis, El Gaucho, Tulio, Queen City Grill, Wild Ginger, are all very sexy places. You really captured our city!”– Scott Carsburg; James Beard Award, Legendary Seattle chef, restaurateur, Lampreia, Bisato current

“I got completely hooked on Inside Passage! I wanted to keep turning the page. Corey is an interesting and scrappy chick who I relate to.”– Nancy Guppy, host, Art Zone, Seattle Channel

“I was quite taken with the characters: the story, the craft and the wisdom of the book. I love the way you reveal Abe and Corey’s strengths and weaknesses; and the way they overcome their weaknesses.”– David Field, screenwriter, former studio executive, United Artists and 20th Century Fox

“Inside Passage hit all the hallmarks of a great read for me, writing, characterization, narrative and a titillating ending. A riveting story from the first paragraph .”– Nightly Reading

“In this novel, a restaurateur’s ex-husband — a journalist working on an explosive story — puts her and her son in danger. Callie James is the owner of Le Cochon Bronze, a popular eatery in Seattle, where she returned, heartbroken and pregnant, after she caught her French spouse cheating on her. Fourteen years later, her former husband shows up at the restaurant. He is a renowned investigative reporter working on ‘the story of the modern terrorist world.’ She wants no part of him and escorts him outside. No sooner does he inform her that someone is trying to kill him and he needs her help …” – Kirkus Reviews

“The Inside Passage is a connected group of waterways between Seattle Washington and Alaska, mostly protected from the big waters of the Pacific Ocean where Corey Logan grew up boating with her mother. After her mother’s death, Corey renamed her boat the Jenny Ann. Looking back over the life of Corey Logan, one might presume her to be a somewhat innocent single mom of one who had made a lifestyle out of navigating the Inside Passage, raising her son, and enjoying a wholesome life. At least, that was her life prior to reconnecting with Al, Billy’s father …” – Mobangeles

“Corey Logan is framed by a diamond thief whose partner is running for a political office. Nick Season knows she knows, and that she knows why her husband disappeared. He does everything in his power to silence her including sending Corey to prison. When she comes home, her son is in foster care and all she wants is to be with him. Unfortunately, she’s still a threat during Nick’s campaign and so the boy is used as leverage …” – The Magic Pen

“Danger In Plain Sight is a work of thriller fiction with plenty of interpersonal drama and was penned by author Burt Weissbourd. Part of the Callie James Series of thriller and drama novels, the titular character is a Seattle restaurateur who has moved on from many a difficulty in her old life. So when her ex-husband and investigative reporter Daniel shows up after fourteen years, it’s a bad omen, and even worse when it becomes clear that someone wants him dead …”  – Readers’ Favorite