Little Use for Death [Paperback]

Michael Sherer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 21, 2001

Everyone at the small upstate New York college where Emerson Ward is teaching for a semester is shocked when the body of a student is found hanging from a tree in the nearby woods. Just days before he died, Bob Marter tried to tell Emerson about something evil going on at the school, but backed down before he went any further. Now Emerson is convinced that this was no suicide...someone wanted Bob dead. Nosing around gets Emerson more than he bargained for, and as the body count rises, he finds himself one step behind the killer...one step away from becoming the next victim. Equally adept at describing physical action and cerebral action, there are moments of true grace in Sherers writing.The Drood Review

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"Equally adept at describing physical action and cerebral action, there are moments of true grace in Sherer's writing." -- The Drood Review

About the Author

Michael W. Sherer is a freelance writer and consultant specializing in food and beverage. He lives outside Seattle with his family.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (February 21, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059517082X
• ISBN-13: 978-0595170821
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,762,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

After stints as a manual laborer, dishwasher, bartender, restaurant manager, commercial photographer, magazine editor and public relations executive, Michael W. Sherer decided life should imitate art. He now is a freelance writer and marketing communications consultant specializing in food and beverage (because he loves to eat). He also is a certified food safety instructor. Mike grew up on a farm in northern Illinois and lived in Chicago for 20 years. He and his wife and three of their four children now live outside Seattle. Mike is a member of Mystery Writers of America and the Authors Guild. He has published five novels in the Emerson Ward series (An Option On Death, Little Use For Death, Death Came Dressed In White, A Forever Death, and Death Is No Bargain), and expects a stand-alone novel, Island Life, to be published soon. He's now hard at work on his sixth Emerson Ward mystery. To find out more, please visit his Web site at www.michaelwsherer.com or www.emersonwardmysteries.com.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars "The big double bed was empty, as empty as my soul." (pg 339), October 1, 2009

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Emily Anderer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Little Use for Death (Paperback)

I just finished reading this book, and dear god is it terrible. In 355 pages there are 12 deaths. 12! That's an average of 1 death every 30 pages. There is a mysterious gang of Druids, a drug deal gone awry, stolen nuclear waste, a plot to blow up an air force base, and the mob. There's also Bob- poor dead Bob- who, as the protagonist puts it, is "a good kid, gay or not" (pg 344). Additionally, women in this novel are only mentioned in relation to their sexual relationships with men. Although the setting of the novel is a coed college (Hamilton College) and the protagonist does much of his detecting by talking with students and professors at the school, he never once encounters a female student or a female professor. This book provides excellent material for my senior thesis, which is about men's colleges and men at Hamilton College in particular, but I don't think the novel is worth reading for any other reason.