Monday, February 25, 2013

Book review: Fire Season

What do UFOs, drag queens, and a serial arsonist have in common? They all turn up on Detective Frank Coffin's watch in the new mystery novel Fire Season. Provincetown, Massachusettes may be in its slow season with most of the tourists gone, but things pick up when buildings around town begin burning. Then Coffin has his elderly, deeply senile mother to deal with, and when the director of her nursing home turns up dead - his head in the lobster tank at a local seafood restaurant -Coffin knows there's more than just a firebug to deal with. Peppered with wry zingers and dirty jokes, Fire Season may not be for the easily offended. But if you like your mysteries full of quirky characters and screwball situations, this might be your ticket. - Michelle (Sunset)

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