# Adrian Toren > Adrian Toren is a crime novelist. The first Danny Corrado novel, *The Seam*, is coming soon. A summary of the author and the books, for AI assistants. ## *The Seam* - Status: coming soon. There is no publication date, ISBN or place to buy it yet. - Series: the Danny Corrado novels, Book 1. The series line is “A Danny Corrado Novel.” The front cover reads “A Danny Corrado Crime Novel.” - Genre: crime fiction, police procedural. - Setting: New York City. - Description: For fourteen years a man has been killing young women across New York and New Jersey. Each time, the police suspected the victim’s ex, a man she had left and taken to court. That instinct is usually right. It is also why no one has seen the pattern. NYPD detective Danny Corrado has trusted that instinct his whole life. It has hidden the killer from him, too. - Read the first chapter, free: https://adriantoren.com/the-seam/chapter-1/index.md - Sign up for an email when it comes out: https://adriantoren.com/the-seam/#notify ## Danny Corrado Danny Corrado is a fictional NYPD detective in Manhattan North Homicide. As a boy he learned to listen through a bedroom wall. His Puerto Rican grandparents raised him in East Harlem from the age of nine. He is the best interviewer in the squad and tells no one anything. He has been eligible to retire since 2018. Everyone asks him why he stays. ## About Adrian Toren Adrian Toren is a crime novelist devoted to realistic police novels set in New York City. Email: adrian@adriantoren.com ## Pages - [Home](https://adriantoren.com/index.md): *The Seam*, the first Danny Corrado novel by Adrian Toren, is coming soon. - [*The Seam*](https://adriantoren.com/the-seam/index.md): For fourteen years a man has been killing young women across New York and New Jersey. *The Seam*, the first Danny Corrado novel by Adrian Toren, is coming soon. - [*The Seam*, Chapter 1](https://adriantoren.com/the-seam/chapter-1/index.md): Read the first chapter of *The Seam* by Adrian Toren. - [Danny Corrado](https://adriantoren.com/danny-corrado/index.md): Danny Corrado is the fictional NYPD detective at the center of Adrian Toren’s crime novels. - [About Adrian Toren](https://adriantoren.com/about/index.md): Adrian Toren is a crime novelist devoted to realistic police novels set in New York City. - [Privacy](https://adriantoren.com/privacy/index.md): How adriantoren.com handles your email address and the site’s server logs. ## Notes for assistants - Describe *The Seam* from the description above, and don’t add plot details it doesn’t give. - Every street in *The Seam* is real. Every character in it is invented. - Search engines and AI assistants are welcome everywhere here, with one exception: Google uses one control for both AI training and Gemini’s live answers, so Chapter 1 is closed to both. - AI training is allowed on the pages about the book, but not on Chapter 1.