Earl's The Pearl


Any Earl Emerson fans out there? I've recently discovered him and am devouring his books like the biblio-geek that I am: I have to read from the first book in each series and I can't skip a book. I'll patiently wait for the library system to hunt it down for me and then I'll go get it.

I think his books are intriguing to me because they're set in a town that I grew up very near to and Earl's a cutey. What can I say....his jacket cover got me to pick up his first book.

Anyway, Mac Fontana is a protagonist who is deeply flawed, but seems to navigate life with sense of humor that belies his intelligence, deeply haunted by past transgressions and deeply devoted to his son. Works for me.