Two more books by an author that I trust. Earl Emerson is a Lieutenant in the Seattle Fire Department and written a series with a firefighter by the name of Thomas Black. I've enjoyed that series. These latest two are not part of that series but I found tham engaging, even so. Both use the premise of a basically innocent person who finds himself in the position of looking guilty in comparison to a truly evil character who, nevertheless, is taken to be the innocent party. Both books still use a firefighter as protagonists, although only The Smoke Room, actually spends very much time in a fire station or at fire scenes. I enjoyed The Smoke Room more than the other, Primal Threat. Primal Threat seemed to take forever to end.