Help Wanted: Orphans Preferred

by Earl Emerson

Overview

Fire chief and part-time sheriff Mac Fontana is puzzled when members of his Staircase, Washington's fire department are targeted by a homicidal maniac; his involvement with the wife of a paramedic leads to terrible revelations. Publisher's Weekly called this "a tightly written and suspenseful tale."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015498677
Publisher:	Earl Emerson
Publication date:	09/28/2012
Series:	The Mac Fontana mysteries , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	676 KB

About the Author

Earl Emerson has published over twenty-three award-winning novels. His Thomas Black private eye mysteries have been nominated for the prestigious Edgar Award and six times nominated for the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award, winning for Poverty Bay. Emerson also worked thirty-two years in the Seattle fire department and has written a series of thrillers about firefighting. Black Hearts and Slow Dancing was listed as one of the ten best mystery/thrillers of the year by The New York Times.
Emerson lives in Washington State with his wife and the last cat.

Editorial Reviews

A clever, well-paced mystery . . . Emerson doesn't miss a beat.

The Milwaukee Journal - book editor

Among the best of the new generation of American private-eye writers.

Chicago Sun-Times - Sun-times book editor

Worth the haul---by four-wheel drive, dirt bike, or snowmobile, and with or without your dog.

The New York Times Book Review - mystery editor