{"product_id":"monicas-sister-9781493561544","title":"Monica's Sister","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmerson 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492650455314,"sku":"9781493561544","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4c6fb2e9-cc38-4071-a6cb-2f61848d3939.jpg?v=1730601421","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/monicas-sister-9781493561544","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}