Monica’s Sister

In the thirteenth installment of this award-winning private eye series, Seattle sleuth Thomas Black agrees to do a favor for a longtime friend of Kathy's, Angela Bassman, who quickly gets him entangled in a messy relationship between philandering billionaire, Clark Lloyd Self and his famous ex-model wife, Monica Pennington. Complications ensue when Self's gargantuan Rhodes-scholar bodyguard and his sniggering buddy begin harassing Black and Angela. When Angela ends up dead, her sister hires Black to investigate her last weeks, sending Black on a Byzantine odyssey in which he nearly loses his life and ends up discovering more about each sister's mysterious past than either of them ever wanted him to know.

Emerson is the Shamus award-winning author of twenty-four novels, including the Thomas Black detective series, the Mac Fontana mysteries, and six fire department thrillers. A veteran of thirty-two years as a lieutenant in the Seattle Fire department, he now writes full time in North Bend, Washington.