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As always it was an enjoyable read. It's always fun to read about a city in which you once lived. It had a few twists and turns but didn't make your brain ache with trying to figure out who's who.


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Catfish Cafe Earl Emerson 9780345422125 Books Reviews

Book started okay, but then seemed muddled... and author seemed in last couple chapters just wanted to wrap up the finish.
Kind of a let down....
I bought a couple more of his books at same time, will give them another shot.
I have to agree with the reader from Seattle. Did some readers not like this book due to its in-depth portrayal of an urban African-American family? Or did the book seem too serious to them after the manic "Million-Dollar Tattoo" (which is a classic!)?
I think Emerson did a helluva job making the intricate relationships believable without drawing racial caricatures, as well as depicting the difficulties facing a white P.I. struggling to sort through the subcultural undercurrents while solving a missing person/murder case.
Thomas Black books are addictive, and I'm already needing another fix.
PI Thomas Black, an ex-Seattle cop, is asked by his old partner, Luther, for help finding Luther's daughter. The daughter had been driving a car later found turned over in a ditch with a dead body in the back seat. Did she kill him? Is someone trying to kill her? Is she already dead? This was an exciting and very well-written mystery. The tunnel scene at the end had me so riveted I missed my bus stop. Now that's something! Highly recommended!
This is the first book I have read by Emerson. Although it's a small book, it was a difficult read. The writing was a bit stale and uninteresting. There's not a lot going on in this book besides rather straight and to-the-point storytelling. There were a lot of characters--too many to keep track of--suffering from under-development.
In some parts of the novel, I found it difficult to track who was saying what because the thoughts and/or actions of one character were contained in the same paragraph as the dialogue of another character. A small complaint, maybe. But when carried on over a few pages, this style of dialogue writing is unnecessarily confusing and cramps the novel's flow.
I may read another Emerson book, to give him a fair "shake", but it will be much lower on my reading list.
Catfish Cafe is another entry in author Earl Emerson's steadily expanding body of work. Set in Seattle, where he lives and works, this is a further adventure of private investigator, Thomas Black. It is an elaborate examination of family relationships.

Black is contacted by his former partner on the Seattle Police Department, Luther Little. Luther now drives a hearse for a living. It seems that his daughter, Balinda, has gone missing and is now sought by the police who are investigating what appears to be a murder inside an automobile crash. Luther fears for Balinda's safety and her history of drug abuse complicates his worry. He enlists Black's aid in finding the woman.

Even though Black is aware of Luther Little's family and history of chasing any woman who comes within his awareness, which is pretty extensive, he owes Luther and thus is drawn into the complex relationships and associations of Luther's multi-generational family. There are daughters, sons, cousins, boyfriends, friends, hangers-on, and wives and husbands. It is a large complex cast of characters, sometimes difficult to follow.

Emerson keeps them all straight and focuses the wide-ranging search for Balinda around the neighborhood cafe of the book's title. CATFISH CAFE is an intelligent, compassionate look at a large Black family and its struggles for survival. If the book sags toward the end in a resolution that requires major suspension of disbelief, by that time, most reader will be in a forgiving mood, entangled like Thomas Black in the machinations of the Sand family. The book is distinguished by its sharp dialogue, winning attitudes, incisively described scenes and crafty humor.
Another great book!!!
Thomas Black always is entertaining and this entry in the series kept me turning the pages, following some surprising twists. The conspiracy theories were a bit over the top, though.
As always it was an enjoyable read. It's always fun to read about a city in which you once lived. It had a few twists and turns but didn't make your brain ache with trying to figure out who's who.