Book Club

Name: Novel 9

City: Spokane

Group history: A group of nine members, four married couples and a single woman, been together nearly eight years. Meets monthly on Saturday evenings or Sunday afternoons, either having full meals or just dessert. Book choice (fiction only) is done by member suggestion. Subject mix is between current, older and classic fiction.

Book reviewed: The Thomas Black mysteries of Seattle writer/firefighter Earl Emerson, keying on “The Rainy City,” “Deception Pass” and “Million-Dollar Tattoo.”

Contact person: Jim Price.

The review: “This was our frivolous month,” Price said. As a whole, the group found Emerson’s book to be “pretty much the expected,” Price said, “amusing, diverting, a quick read.” Some group members read mostly serious fiction, Price said, “So this was a pleasant break.” What was of particular interest, Price added, was Emerson’s “use of real places in Seattle” and that “some of his characters are really interesting.” “Deception Pass,” especially, “was all believable stuff that could have happened. And it was an interesting idea.”