Captured

＂The bloody last chapters and surprise ending neatly complete this lean, smoothly written first novel.＂ - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

The Hamptons. The dynamic ’80s. The home video revolution in full swing. The era of MTV, New Wave music, and huge shoulder pads. After winning the lottery, ex-cop Jeff Mitchum settles in an affluent beach town, runs a video rental store, and drives a Porsche. He’s on top of the world. Until one morning when he wakes up next to a dead woman’s body after an erotic one-night stand. From now on his life will never be the same. His only clue - the act of murder captured on video. As he delves deeper, he becomes immersed in a vortex of murder and deception. There is no escape. There is no turning back. Mitchum must fast forward into an electronic nightmare...

＂This is a first novel written with unusual power and poise...Serrian skillfully weaves a web...a solid first novel.＂ - MYSTERY SCENE

Written by acclaimed writer, Michael Serrian, author of EDGEPLAY.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Michael Serrian attended Brooklyn College where he majored in English and Film and wrote and directed several short films. Over the next ten years, he worked in the publishing industry as a proofreader, copywriter, and graphic designer. In 1987, his first two novels Captured and Night Runners were published. The suspense thrillers, Mirage and Fatal Exit, soon followed, published by Bantam Books. In 1995, Macmillan published his first nonfiction hardcover book, Now Hiring: Film, for young adults, focusing on careers in the film industry. In 2010, An Empty Sky, a novel, was published. Since relocating to Los Angeles in 1987, Michael Serrian has worked at Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Turner Pictures, and DreamWorks, SKG as an Assistant Director in feature animation. In 1999, Michael wrote and produced the live action feature, Cruising Purgatory and in 2002, wrote, produced, and co-directed This Way Out of Brooklyn. Currently, Michael Serrrian is a web and graphic designer and working on his next novel.