"Fantastic thriller"
Georgia Skeatan was a firefighter before she became a fire
marshal. Her supervisor and lover Mac Marenko is having a
little commitment problem as well as a major legal fight,
but otherwise Georgia's life is perfect. At least it is
until her latest arson case involves two doctors who served
on the One -- B -- Board, a committee of physicians who
judge
whether a firefighter is eligible for a three-quarters
disability pension. The arson team doesn't even have a chance to
investigate the fires before it's handed over to a unit of
the police force. It seems the two deceased doctors were
involved in a dispute with firefighters who were injured in
a warehouse fire that involved hazardous chemicals. Nobody
involved got a three-quarters pension in that affair. Now
somebody who vividly remembers that fire which happened
twenty-five years ago is threatening to blow up a big chunk
of the city unless he gets $1 million dollars. He wants
Georgia to deliver the money while she is worrying that Mac
might be tried for the murder of his ex- girlfriend and
Georgia's best friend. FLASHOVER is a fantastic thriller that showcases the
spread of corruption and the pain it causes even over a
twenty-five year period. Remnant of Turk 186, it's evident
the author knows the inner workings of the fire department
because the minute details come across as believable and
realistic. The heroine is a great role mode as a person
who crashes the gender ceiling while adhering to her
personal values. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted April 20, 2002
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Readers and reviewers applauded Suzanne Chazin's debut, The
Fourth Angel, and its heroine, Fire Marshal Georgia
Skeehan. "Chazin dazzles with her knowledge of pyrotechnics
and comes up with plot twists aplenty," raved People. In this new novel, Georgia investigates the deaths of two
doctors, both victims of fires that show signs of
a "flashover"-the overwhelming combustion of a room and its
contents by simultaneous ignition. She suspects the
connection between them might be that each worked on the
board approving "line of duty" compensation for disabled
firefighters. Georgia is grasping for straws when the
bottom of her life drops out: her best friend, a woman
detective with the NYPD, disappears, and the man found in
the woman's blood-spattered apartment is Georgia's
boyfriend and fellow marshal, Mac Marenko. Betrayal-both
private and professional-has never hit so close to home.
Georgia finds frightening evidence that greed and deception
are the cause of these recent deaths and perhaps one more
to come-her own.
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