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1) The arsonist
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A series of summer house fires exposes deep social faults in the hometown of Frankie Rowley, who makes unsettling discoveries about her aging parents while engaging in an affair with a local journalist.
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Series
Nancy Drew diaries volume 23
Description
Nancy and her boyfriend Ned visit Coffin Hall to research the library's rumored ghost, but when a fire breaks out and Ned is blamed, it is up to Nancy to find the true culprit.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
viii, 306 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Today, wildland fire is everybody's business, from the White House to the fireground. Wildfires have grown bigger, more intense, more destructive--and more expensive. Federal taxpayers, for example, footed most of the $16 million bill for fighting the 2006 Esperanza Fire in Southern California, which marked the first time that an entire five-man engine crew was killed by fire, as well as the first time that an arsonist was successfully prosecuted...
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Sugarcreek Amish mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Christmas decorations brighten the storefronts of Sugarcreek, Ohio. Cheryl Cooper is visiting Swissters, a cheese shop down the street from the Swiss Miss, when she hears that a local business has burned down. Heini's Cheese Chalet and factory is a local favorite and word has it that arson is suspected. Who would want to burn down a cheese factory? And why? Cheryl's friend Naomi Miller helps her to understand that the ripple effect goes beyond one...
5) Smoke
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Description
An evocative tale of two women navigating the secrets and lies at the heart of a wildfire threatening their town. After a decade long career combating wildfires, Elizabeth has traded in her former life for a quieter one with her husband. Now she works as the local arson investigator in a beautiful, quaint town in the Rockies. But that tranquil life vanishes when she and her husband agree to divorce and a fire in nearby Cooper Basin begins to spread...
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Virgil Flowers was brought into the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension by a promise from Lucas Davenport: "We'll only give you the hard stuff." He's been doing the hard stuff for three years, but he's never seen anything like this. In the small rural town of Bluestem, an old man is bound in his basement, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. This is the third murder in just as many weeks, and it's becoming clear that Flowers has stepped into a killer's...
8) Untouchable
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"A man's quest to find answers for those who are haunted by the past leads him deeper into the shadows in this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell. Quinton Zane is back. Jack Lancaster, consultant to the FBI, has always been drawn to the coldest of cold cases, the kind that law enforcement either considers unsolvable or else has chalked up to accidents or suicides. As a survivor of a fire, he finds...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
386 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"From the author of the acclaimed bestseller Sister comes a gripping, thrilling story of a mother who will do anything to protect her child. The school was on fire, and Grace's last memory is of trying to reach her daughter, Jenny, trapped inside the inferno. While their burned bodies are frantically cared for by doctors, Grace and Jenny awaken in the hospital in a strange in-between state. When they learn that someone purposefully set the fire, and...
10) The blaze
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
374 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
Description
Having lost much of his memory from a traumatic brain injury sustained in Iraq, army veteran Matthew Rose is called back to Montana after his father's death to settle his affairs, and hopefully to settle the past as well. It's not only a blank to him, but a mystery. Why as a teen did he suddenly become sullen and vacant, abandoning the activities and people that had meant most to him? How did he, the son of hippy activists, wind up enlisting in the...
11) Firestorm
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Pub. Date
c2004
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Arson specialist Kerry Murphy solves crimes with the help of her dog Sam, but behind her reputation as a fire detective, she hides a terrifying secret that explains her success more thoroughly than her hard work and dedication.
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Series
Formats
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There is an arsonist setting fires in town. Journalist Claire Abbott thinks she knows who the firebug is. Or does she? Realizing she cannot rely solely on her sixth sense to solve this crime, Claire sets out to catch the arsonist in the act before he ends up killing someone.
14) Scorched eggs
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Series
Cackleberry Club mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"In Laura Childs's New York Times bestselling mystery series, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni--co-owners of the Cackleberry Club Café are equally good at serving up breakfast and serving up justice. This time they turn up the heat on a deadly firebug... As Suzanne is getting her hair colored at Root 66, she's stunned to witness the County Services office next door suddenly go up in flames. Concerned neighbors throng the streets, and the fire department...
15) Night on fire
Author
Series
Kevin Corvelli novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Kevin Corvelli--a hot shot New York defense attorney who packed up his bags and hung his shingle in Hawaii to dodge the spotlight--is deep in his Mai Tais at a resort when an argument erupts down the bar. It's a pair of newlyweds, married that day. And since Corvelli doesn't do divorces, he all but dismisses the argument. That's at least until the fire breaks out later that night, and he barely escapes his hotel room. Most weren't so lucky, including...
16) Blue smoke
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
437 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Pursuing a career as an arson investigator after a fire destroys her family's pizzeria, Reena Hale embarks on a relationship with Bo Goodnight and finds herself targeted by an arsonist who taunts her with threatening phone calls.
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Series
All the wrong questions volume 3
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Description
Young Lemony Snicket investigates a rash of fires that have plagued the town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea, revealing secrets that involve the Department of Education and the notorious villain Hangfire.
18) Rogue Island
Author
Series
Liam Mulligan mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
302 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
When journalist Liam Mulligan realizes that someone is systematically burning down his childhood neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, he ignores his bosses and his budding relationship to figure out the firebug's identity.
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Series
Sugarcreek Amish mysteries volume 26
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Cheryl and Levi Miller are settling into married life and enjoying their daughter Rebecca's first year. But when a mysterious fire destroys Seth and Naomi's barn, Cheryl sets out to find the culprit. Soon, more blazes confirm Cheryl's suspicion? someone is intentionally setting fires in Sugarcreek. Cheryl's efforts to find the perpetrator uncover more questions than answers. Her list of suspects is growing rather shrinking. Between raising an infant...
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Series
Love walked in volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle of friends for whom she would do anything. Because of one terrible night, she loses them all, and her adventurous spirit, seemingly forever. While the town cheers on the high school football team, someone sets the school's auditorium ablaze. Ginny's best friend Gray Marsden's father, a fire fighter, dies in the blaze. While many in the town believe a notoriously...
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