Tony Bassett’s latest novel, “SEAT 97,” is a gripping thriller set in London. It concerns a man shot dead at a concert hall after he takes a seat next to journalist Nick Colton and his wife Greta. Colton knows the 45-year-old soul music fan who was murdered had swapped tickets with another concertgoer moments earlier. So was the victim the intended target or did the assassin shoot the wrong man? The novel gives an insight into the cut-throat world of British journalism, delves into London gang crime and sees Colton clashing with detectives as he strives to find out why the dead man was killed. Tony is a former Fleet Street journalist. SEAT 97 is his fifth novel to be published by The Book Folks, an independent London publisher specialising in crime fiction. The previous four books were part of Tony’s Midlands series which all feature Detective Chief Inspector Gavin Roscoe, an experienced detective and family man, and his sergeant, law graduate and resourceful problem-solver Sunita Roy. The latest book in this series, Out For Revenge (Book 4), was published in October 2022. It concerns notorious gangland boss Tadeusz Filipowski - a man with numerous enemies who plans to expand his Midlands drug empire on his release from jail. The other three books in the Roy and Roscoe series are: Murder On Oxford Lane (Book 1); The Crossbow Stalker (Book 2); and Murder Of A Doctor (Book 3). Tony, who is also the author of Smile Of The Stowaway and The Lazarus Charter, has five grown-up children. He is a Life Member of the National Union of Journalists. He lives in South-East London with his partner Lin.