Goodreads asked Chris Beakey:

What are you currently working on?

Chris Beakey Right now, I'm doing something I've always loved, but with a lot more energy . . . and that is spending time with other writers and other people who love to read. One of the things I like most about Goodreads is the opportunity to learn which books are captivating people . . . which books they finish and immediately want to talk about. Because I read and write thrillers I tend to pay the most attention to what people have to say about these types of books. But I also enjoy stories about families, and about people confronting major obstacles in an effort to make the world a better place.

I also write reviews of my favorite books on my blog at blog.chrisbeakey.com . . . which currently describes thoughts on some of my favorite writers, including John Lescroart, Neely Tucker, Joseph Finder, Lisa Unger, Jeffrey Stephens, Louis Bayard, Gillian Flynn, Lee Child, Lisa Gardner, Ed Markham, Kathleen Antrim, A.J. Tata, Doug Johnstone and the amazing Peter Swanson (who wrote The Kind Worth Killing - one of 2015's best). I also write reviews for the New York Journal of Books (nyjournalofbooks.com). In recent months at that site I've reviewed John Lescroart, Doug Johnstone, Peter Swanson, Melodie Johnson Howe and Steve Mosby.

The only thing I like more than thinking and talking about books is writing them . . . which is why I'm also allotting time almost every day for my next book, which I expect will be published about a year after Fatal Option is released in February. I'm about two thirds of the way through . . . my working title is DOUBLE DEATH. It's about a psychic in the Witness Protection Program who keeps outsmarting the guys who keep finding her - and who can't possibly be guilty of everything the U.S. Marshals suspect her of.

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