Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
Catfish Café
Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Earl Emerson
Class/Genre: Mystery Private Investigator
Series: Thomas Black # 11
Ballantine, Aug 1998, $22.00, 320 pp.
In Seattle, Luthor Little asks his former police partner, private investigator Thomas Black, to help him locate his missing daughter Balinda. Apparently, Balinda left behind her purse with nothing inside it, a wrecked car, and a bullet-ridden corpse in her back seat. Thomas frantically begins to investigate the disappearance of Balinda and the identity of who killed the man in the car because he fears for the missing girl's life.
In his eleventh outing, Thomas Black remains one of the most interesting sleuths of the nineties. His latest novel, CATFISH CAFE, is a very good who- done-it, that reads even better as a family saga. The support cast, who are mostly Luthor's family, is a great ensemble. Especially fun to read about is grandma and her use of puzzles to simultaneously dodge and answer Thomas' inquiries. Shamus Award winning Earl Emerson is the emperor of the Northwest who-done-it and anyone who has not tried one of his novels is missing out on a fabulous treat.
Harriet Klausner
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