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1) The arsonist
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Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
O'Malley volume 4
Language
English
Description
After firefighter Cassie Ellis, recovering from a previous blaze, witnesses a serial arsonist in action, her life is placed in danger and the only person she can trust is fellow firefighter Jack O'Malley.
5) Rescue me
Author
Series
Montana rescue volume 2
Language
English
Description
When Deputy Sam Brooks and impulsive, bleeding heart Willow are thrown together in Glacier National Park, they must work together to save their lives and those of several frightened teenagers.
Deputy Sam Brooks believes Sierra Rose is the perfect girl for him. Safe, practical, and organized, she's nothing like her hippie, impulsive, bleeding heart sister, Willow. He doesn't know Willow's been in love with him for years. To purge Sam from her heart,...
6) Forgiven
Author
Series
Sisters of the heart volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Winnie is injured while trying to save animals caught in a barn fire. Englisher Samuel Miller tends to Winnie during her hospital stay and a friendship forms. But as long as he remains part of the outside world, Winnie knows their attraction can never develop into something more. Her brother, meanwhile, has discovered cigarette butts in the remains of the barn and is determined to find out who was responsible for the fire"--regular print ed.
7) Fire storm
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, FBI profiler Kaely Quinn 'takes time off work to go to Dark Water, Nebraska. The area has been hit by a series of fires, attributed by the fire chief to misuse of space heaters in the frigid winter. Kaely's search for a pattern in the locations of the fires lead her to suspect arson. Calling upon her partner from St. Louis, Noah Hunter, and a firefighter neighbor, Kaely and her team begin an investigation...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Henning Mankell's last novel about an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside down when his house catches fire. Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier to a tiny island on which he is the only resident. He has a daughter he rarely sees and his mailman Jansson is the closest thing he has to a friend, and to an adversary. He is perfectly content to live out...
9) False friend
Author
Series
Detective Cooper Devereaux volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The second installment in the extraordinary Cooper Devereaux mystery thriller series, which combines the atmosphere of James Lee Burke and Craig Johnson with the noir brilliance of Robert Crais An arsonist is targeting schools in Birmingham, Alabama--with devastating effect. Detective Devereaux--a man you can't quite trust and should never ignore--must put a stop to the elusive pyromaniac's reign of terror before more damage is done. Or worse,...
10) Fire dancer
Author
Series
Smoke jumper volume 1
Publisher
WestBow Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Author
Series
Firefighters volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Anne Ashburn is a woman consumed ... By her bitter family legacy, by her scorched career as a firefighter, by her obsession with department bad-boy Danny McGuire, and by a new case that pits her against a fiery killer. Strong-willed Anne was fearless and loved the thrill of fighting fires, pushing herself to be the best. But when one risky decision at a warehouse fire changes her life forever, Anne must reinvent not only her job, but her whole self....
13) Southern man
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Series
Penn Cage volume 7
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone. But Penn's self-imposed exile comes to an abrupt end when a brawl at a Bienville music festival triggers a shooting--one that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie. Before the stunned populace can process the tragedy, an arsonist begins torching antebellum plantation homes in Bienville. When an unknown...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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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Series
Language
English
Description
Boston PI Spenser faces a hot case and a personal crisis in the latest adventure in the iconic New York Times best-selling series from author Ace Atkins. The fire at a boarded-up Catholic church raged hot and fast, lighting up Boston's South End and killing three firefighters. A year later, as the city prepares to honor their sacrifice, there are still no answers about how the deadly fire started. Boston firefight Jack McGee, who lost his best friend...
17) Wildfire
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 560L
Language
English
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Description
"In this high-interest novel for middle readers, Dylan tries to find the source of a series of mysterious fires."--
18) Scorched grace
Author
Series
Sister Holiday mystery volume 1
Publisher
Gillian Flynn Books, a Zando imprint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding New Orleans community are thrust into chaos. Patience is a virtue, but punk rocker turned nun Sister Holiday isn't satisfied to just wait around for officials to return her home and sanctuary to its former peace, instead deciding to unveil the mysterious attacker herself. Her investigation leads her down a twisty path...
Author
Series
Edge of nowhere volume 3
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Someone is setting fires on Whidbey Island and Becca King and her friends may know who the arsonist is.
20) The fire dance
Author
Series
Irene Huss investigation volume 6
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In this sixth installment in the critically acclaimed Swedish crime series, the murder of a young ballerina named Sophie, apparently an arson victim, sets off shrill alarm bells for Detective Inspector Irene Huss, who remembers the matching details of an unsolved case from fifteen years earlier, when Irene had only just started in the police force. The stepfather of the then eight-year-old Sophie has been murdered in a very similar way, and at the...
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