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Summary: Chazin scores again with a tense novel.....
Review: "Flash over", the sequel to "The Fourth Angel" is an outstanding sophomore effort for author Suzanne Chazin. Chazin's career has given her an amazing depth of vision about firefighting and the crime of arson. Dialogue between firefighting personnel is natural and logical. Heroine Georgia Skeehan investigates "flashover", an incendiary and simultaneous combustion of room and contents that occurs when conditions are right. Her partner, Carter, is letting her take the lead in the investigation, subtly changing their longstanding relationship. Her romance with Mac Marenko feels unsettled; she's serious, he hasn't even invited her to meet his family. Then again, is he involved in a coverup of these crimes? What did he have to do with the death of her best friend? Chazin alternates short, biting chapters, with longer descriptive chapters, and carefully builds the plot throughout the book. When Skeehan finally triumphs, she uses her success to force a departmental issue, winning a settlement for families of firefighters who had previously given their lives for the department. Chazin's a double threat in the action and romance arena, and her heroine is vulnerable, uncertain, but talented and dedicated to the work she does. Looking forward to more novels in the Skeehan series!
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Summary: Chazin scores again with a tense novel.....
Review: "Flash over", the sequel to "The Fourth Angel" is an outstanding sophomore effort for author Suzanne Chazin. Chazin's career has given her an amazing depth of vision about firefighting and the crime of arson. Dialogue between firefighting personnel is natural and logical. Heroine Georgia Skeehan investigates "flashover", an incendiary and simultaneous combustion of room and contents that occurs when conditions are right. Her partner, Carter, is letting her take the lead in the investigation, subtly changing their longstanding relationship. Her romance with Mac Marenko feels unsettled; she's serious, he hasn't even invited her to meet his family. Then again, is he involved in a coverup of these crimes? What did he have to do with the death of her best friend? Chazin alternates short, biting chapters, with longer descriptive chapters, and carefully builds the plot throughout the book. When Skeehan finally triumphs, she uses her success to force a departmental issue, winning a settlement for families of firefighters who had previously given their lives for the department. Chazin's a double threat in the action and romance arena, and her heroine is vulnerable, uncertain, but talented and dedicated to the work she does. Looking forward to more novels in the Skeehan series!
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Summary: An Amazing Story By An Amazing Writer!
Review: "Flashover" by Suzanne Chazin is an amazing story that could have been taken right out of today's newspaper headlines! Ms. Chazen takes the reader of her book down a terrifying path as a killer plans to level fifteen prime blocks of New York. "Flashover" is a compelling tale of politics, greed and revenge all revolving around the inside world of the fire fighter. The characters are very realistic swiftly drawing the reader in and holding them hostage until the last page has been read! As I said before "Flashover" is an amazing read by an amazing storyteller! I think this book deserves more than a five-star rating, try '10'...
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Summary: A Five-Alarm Suspense Novel
Review: A twisty, frightening, suspenseful, breath-taking thriller. Even better than her first! Georgia, the fire cop, this time investigates the mysterious deaths of two physicians charged with determining whether certain firefighters were injured enough to deserve early retirement. Just when you think you know what's coming next...something totally unexpected happens, and yet, afterwards, you think what ensued was perfectly reasonable. The characters spring to life, especially Georgia, the tough but fragile young woman who must continually prove herself in what had been a man's man's world. This is a five-alarm suspense novel. One complaint: How long must I wait for a sequel? And when are the movies going to pick up on this?
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Summary: Powerful
Review: After finishing Suzanne Chazin's first book, The Fourth Angel, I was eager to read more about her unusual heroine, feisty Fire Marshall Georgia Skeehan--and I wasn't disappointed. With Flashover, Chazin creates another page-turning adventure full of surprising twists and turns of plot that paint a vivid and accurate picture of the behind-the-scenes life of a fire fighter and the inner workings of a fire as it builds and spreads. A member of the International Association of Arson Investigators and wife of a New York City fire chief, Chazin clearly knows what she is talking about. Nowhere is this more apparent, or her writing more powerful, than in the opening scene of the first chapter. I don't think one could understand the horror of being the victim of the fire Chazin describes--a living and breathing monster--without actually being there, which is exactly where Chazin places the reader. You won't want to put the book down after that.
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Summary: Great Writer
Review: As a firefighter for 20+ years, I found Suzannes books to be wonderfully written and accurate. Very hard to put her books down!
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Summary: Great Writer
Review: As a firefighter for 20+ years, I found Suzannes books to be wonderfully written and accurate. Very hard to put her books down!
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Summary: Fiery Mystery
Review: As a young lawyer defending a fire death case, the world of arson and arson investigators was one I looked at in a combination of awe and fear. It was in those days I first heard the word "flashover" and saw first hand the horrendous consequences to human life these explosions hold. To a firefighter, never far from personal disaster, the physics of fire are occupational hazards. It is those occupational hazards that lead us into the bureaucracy of fire pensions and the horror of two fire related deaths of medical board members, That would be mystery enough for many authors, but Suzanne Chazin takes us down an even more horrifying road as a killer plans to level fifteen square blocks of New York. Fire Marshal Georgia Skehann, still learning her trade, is drawn into the swirling vortex of revenge, greed, politics and fire. Underestimated by some, betrayed by others, Marshal Skeehan perseveres as a woman in a world of strong men. Likewise, Suzanne Chazin is hitting her stride and making her mark with imaginative plots and great subject knowledge.
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Summary: Exciting Read - BUT Read Fourth Angel First
Review: Characters and environment created within the Fourth Angel are continued in this book with the main character off on another investigation. The plot could be very real. The plot is laced with the personal life of a firefighter, the politics of the fire department, and overcoming the layers of municipal departments that will attempt to thwart an investigation. Even though this is fiction, the author has enough of a fire fighting background to add much realism to the story. Unfortunately, what happens in the story could happen. I am looking forward to her next book!
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Summary: Exciting Read - BUT Read Fourth Angel First
Review: Characters and environment created within the Fourth Angel are continued in this book with the main character off on another investigation. The plot could be very real. The plot is laced with the personal life of a firefighter, the politics of the fire department, and overcoming the layers of municipal departments that will attempt to thwart an investigation. Even though this is fiction, the author has enough of a fire fighting background to add much realism to the story. Unfortunately, what happens in the story could happen. I am looking forward to her next book!
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