Pyro

I forget how much I enjoy Earl Emerson's books until I read another one. If you have not read anything by him, I suggest you start with Into the Inferno--one of his absolute best. Last weekend I read Pyro, and it starts with one of the most intriguing first sentences I have read in a while, "Life has been a rocky road since that morning nineteen years ago when my brother and I killed Alfred." Now Lt. Paul Wolff is a Seattle firefighter who hates pyromaniacs because his father was killed in a fire started by one when Paul was a child. This tragic death triggered the ruination of his family. Currently the city is being plagued by a string of fires that seem to be very similar to the ones nineteen years ago, and Paul is determined to catch the culprit and hopefully his father's killer.