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Black Hearts and Slow Dancing (Mac Fontana, Bk 1)
Black Hearts and Slow Dancing - Mac Fontana, Bk 1
Author: Earl Emerson
Mac Fontana is content being fire chief in a small town in Washington state. He's not looking for trouble -- and he's certainly not looking for murder. But, as acting deputy sheriff, that's exactly what he finds. — The investigation of the gruesome death of a firefighter on the nearby Seattle force brings Mac into the red-hot center o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780380729371
ISBN-10: 0380729377
Publication Date: 11/1997
Pages: 243
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Publisher: Avon Books (Mm)
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This out of print book is the fifth mystery from the Shamus Award-winning author of Fat Tuesday and Nervous Laughter (the first in the Mac Fontana Series). Unwillingly substituting for the sheriff of Staircase, a town in Washington, Mac Fontana decides the job is more attractive when alluring April Smith asks him to locate her missing lover, Steve Zajac. The search ends with Fontana finding Zajac's corpse and losing April, whom he traces to Seattle where the dead man had been a fire fighter. It's easy to get a lead on April, whose real name is Sumner, but hard and dangerous to investigate powerful citizens who have hired guns ready to kill anyone threatening their profits from arson and other crimes. As Fontana closes in on the suspects, he and April fall into the hands of a vicious couple, creating a crisis stunningly handled by an expert storyteller. A gripping mix of tensions and humor, the novel is enhanced by background material gleaned from Emerson's experiences as a lieutenant with the Seattle Fire Department.

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