It’s finally here in electronic form. The first of my personal three favorite Thomas Black mysteries.
It’s available for Nook here.
And for Kindle on Amazon here.
Yellow Dog Party is the first in a trilogy. The other books in that trilogy are The Portland Laugher and The Vanishing Smile. The books are about desire, jealousy and relationships between men and women and in particular, between Thomas Black and Kathy Birchfield.
In Yellow Dog Party Thomas Black is asked to find the dreamgirls of four different bachelors. Each man has reached a pinnacle of success in his life, each is lonely, and each believes a woman he’s been dreaming of can fill a hole in his life. One is a cheerleader from the guy’s high school, one a woman with season tickets to the Mariner’s, same as him, etcetera. In this book Thomas and Kathy are getting closer and farther apart at the same time. Kathy’s got a boyfriend.
While I was doing signings for this book, or maybe it was the next one in the series, an alert reader, a researcher for one of our two local newspapers at the time, told me she liked the book, but why hadn’t I written about four women looking for men from their past. Of course, she said, they wouldn’t be looking for love. They would be looking to get even. Unwittingly, or maybe it was wittingly, she gave me the plot for the third book in the series, The Vanishing Smile. These really are my three favorites in the Thomas Black series, both for how they work as individual books and for how they compliment each other in both theme and storyline.
If you haven’t already read it, enjoy Yellow Dog Party.
Another cover by Cinelli.
I finished rereading Yellow Dog Party last night. It’s one of my favorites in the series, in part, I think, because the opening scene is so memorable. Anyway, my ereader is ready for the next Thomas Black book!
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