The Rainy City by Earl Emerson

Earl Emerson is the author of the award-winning PI Thomas Black series, as well as the Mac Fontana series.

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The Rainy City by Earl Emerson


Features

  • Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.80 x 6.90 x 4.11
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reissue edition (June 1997)
  • ISBN: 0345414055

    From the Publisher
    Earl Emerson's acclaimed series about Seattle private investigator Thomas Black is much beloved by readers and critics. And with justification. (These novels, running the gamut from THE RAINY CITY to the just-issued CATFISH CAF, are among my all-time favorite detective tales, and I'm not just saying that because I'm Earl's editor.) But I don't know any other crime novelist who amasses such fervent praise from his peers. It would be a crime to call Earl Emerson merely a "writer's writer." ...     read more

    Book Description
    "Earl Emerson is one of the best of the new private eye writers."
    --Chicago Sun-Times

    Something made Melissa Nadisky flee her husband and their daughter. The note she left behind paints a picture of a woman haunted by a private hell. Now Thomas Black's friend, Kathy Birchfield, wants him to find Melissa--before she's consumed by her secret, terrifying demons.

    Yet the straightforward missing persons case turns deadly when a killer starts silencing key witnesses in Black's investigation. But there's no turning back--especially after the sometimes-psychic Kathy tells him about her terrifying vision: a weeping little girl and a pit full of human bones. . . .

    "Emerson is right up there with the best in the genre when it comes to bringing the elements of mystery to a rolling boil."
    --Mostly Murder

    Reader Reviews
    6 of 8 people found the following review helpful: A hard boiled well plotted mystery with unlikable characters, March 7, 2000 Reviewer: Mitchell Ayer from Katy, Tx USA This is the first Thomas Black mystery I read. The book is well plotted and reads fast. The action scenes are hardboiled. I almost gave this four stars but I didn't really like any of the characters. Would it have killed the author to put in at least one normal character and some normal human emotions. Perhaps Seattle has an unusually high percentage of mentally ill and/or deranged people but I doubt it. On page 1 Black's dog is killed. Black doesn't shed a tear but rather he gives us a gardening tip--plant roses over a dog's grave--what's with that?

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