A little disappointing. (har, har)Emerson's stories and writing style are somewhat derivative of other top rated crime and suspense authors.In this tale, Private Eye, Thomas Black, is nearly killed by a bomb that went off in a school gymnasium. After almost bleeding to death, he spends days in ...
A 2003 non-series novel by Earl Emerson known for his Mac Fontana and Thomas Black series. After 1998, he stopped writing fiction series and produced 6 non-series firefighting thrillers between 2002 and 2008. In 2009, he published Cape Disappointment, a return to his Thomas Black series, his last...
THE RAINY CITY is the first book in Earl Emerson's Thomas Black mystery series. Thomas Black lives in Seattle - a la "The Rainy City" - with his renter, Kathy. Kathy is a first-year law student and she rents the basement of Black's house. It is Kathy who talks Black into investigating the disappe...
I've been a fan of Emerson's mystery novels for years, but recently dug into a trio of suspense novels that are a departure from his Thomas Black series. Emerson's a Seattle firefighter, and this novel and the other two take the reader inside the workings of a big-city fire department as they inv...
THE SMOKE ROOM (Suspense-Seattle-Cont) - VGEmerson, Earl – StandaloneBallantine, 2005-HardcoverJason Gun is a young firefighter who makes dumb mistakes. Missing a call because he's having sex in the basement of the firehouse proves to be more than dumb; it's disastrous as it places his career, a...
Regular readers will (maybe) remember that I love this guy. Haven't read a book of his that I haven't liked at least. I even have some signed editions (which has nothing to do with the fact that he's a nice-looking guy in turnout gear. Really. No, REALLY). But. I couldn't finish this book. It's n...
No one writes with the power, authority, and poetry that Earl Emerson has demonstrated in his action-packed novels about fire and the people who make their living fighting it. In Firetrap, Trey Brown is a man tormented by race, by family, and now by a political firestorm that has erupted because ...
said Stephens, revving up his rpms. Muldaur took the lead, Zak second, Stephens a distant third, and behind him Giancarlo. “Fucking dog,” said Muldaur. “Is he catching us?” asked Zak. “I can’t tell.” “He wasn’t running when I saw him.” “That’s because he had his nose to the ground.” “Is he runnin...
Furniture was smashed and splintered, phonograph records cascaded across the floor, the contents of a closet were dumped helter-skelter into the center of the room. Something thumped heavily in my throat. For some oddball reason all four burner units on her electric range were switched on, glowin...