description: "Earl Emerson is one of the best of the new private eye writers."—Chicago Sun-TimesSomething made Melissa Nadisky flee her husband and their daughter. The note she left behind paints a picture of a woman haunted by a private hell. Now Thomas Black's friend, Kathy Birchfield, wants him to find Melissa—before she's consumed by her secret, terrifying demons.Yet the straightforward missing persons case turns deadly when a killer starts silencing key witnesses in Black's investigation. But there's no turning back—especially after the sometimes-psychic Kathy tells him about her terrifying a weeping little girl and a pit full of human bones. . . ."Emerson is right up there with the best in the genre when it comes to bringing the elements of mystery to a rolling boil."—Mostly Murder
language: English
title: The Rainy City
titlecomplete: The Rainy City (Thomas Black, #1)
genres: Detective, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 514
series: Thomas Black
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best Original PI Paperback
publisher: Fawcett