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1) The arsonist
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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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What happens when ambition trumps the truth?
A town reeling in the wake of tragedy
An arsonist is on the loose in Colmstock, Australia, most recently burning down the town's courthouse and killing a young boy who was trapped inside.
An aspiring journalist desperate for a story
The clock is ticking for Rose Blakey. With nothing but rejections from newspapers piling up, her job pulling beers for cops at the local tavern isn't nearly enough to cover...
3) The rook
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Bowers files volume 2
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When Special Agent Patrick Bowers is called in to investigate an arson attack on a top-secret research facility, he is caught up in a race against time to stop an international assassin before it is too late.
4) White fire
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Pendergast novels volume 13
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The arrival of Aloysius Pendergast in a small Colorado Rockies resort town almost coincides with the first sparks of an arsonist's deadly campaign. The FBI Special Agent has, however, a more immediate concern: His spunky, youthful assistant Corrie Swanson needs to be freed, having been jailed because she dug up a nineteenth century secret that could destroy local plans to make Roaring Fork a promising tourist destination.
5) Blue smoke
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Incomparable #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts delivers a tale of gut-level fear, human triumph, and the bonds that carry us through our darkest times…
Reena Hale’s destiny was shaped in the destructive—yet fascinatingly beautiful—fire that leveled her family’s pizzeria when she was young. Now an arson investigator, she finds her strength and wits constantly tested, although sometimes...
Reena Hale’s destiny was shaped in the destructive—yet fascinatingly beautiful—fire that leveled her family’s pizzeria when she was young. Now an arson investigator, she finds her strength and wits constantly tested, although sometimes...
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All the wrong questions volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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In this novel the author exposes a dark secret from a family's past that threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and Hannah Connelly, when the family-owned furniture firm in Long Island City, founded by their grandfather and famous for its fine reproductions of antiques, explodes into flames in the middle of the night, leveling the buildings to the ground, including the museum where priceless antiques have been on permanent display for years. The...
8) Crunch time
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"A cross between Mary Higgins Clark and Betty Crocker."
-Baltimore Sun
"The Julia Child of mystery writers."
-Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
No one cooks up a tastier stew of murder, mystery, and mayhem than New York Times bestselling author Diana Mott Davidson. Entertainment Weekly calls her "today's foremost practitioner of the culinary whodunit." And now it's Crunch Time, as Davidson's delightful series protagonist, caterer and amateur...
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Edgar Award-winner Bruce DeSilva returns with Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island. Mulligan knows every street and alley, every priest and prostitute, every cop and street thug. He knows the mobsters and politicians-who are pretty much one and the same.
Inspired by a true story, Providence Rag finds Mulligan, his pal Mason, and the newspaper they both work for at an ethical crossroad....
11) Storm surge
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Mick Kline storm novels volume 2
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After ten years, FBI Agent Mick Kline thought he had put his past behind him. But when mysterious letters start arriving at his house, Mick finds himself drawn back to a case that had been solved ten years ago-a murder case in which Mick had once been the prime suspect. Mick's investigation leads him to a man on death row for a crime he claims he didn't commit and the homicide detective who handled the case. As Mick gets close to discovering the truth,...
12) Whirlpool
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Julesburg mysteries volume 1
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Stefanie Canfield has suffered through her mother's death and her husband's affair and their difficult divorce, but the final blow comes when she is a suspect in the fire that destroyed her plywood mill. She gets her first break when the arson investigator turns out to be a childhood friend.
13) Against the fire
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A fan-favorite from New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin, originally published in 2011.
You can't fight what you can't see. And Gabriel Raines can't be sure just who's setting the fires in his new real-estate development. When two fires hit back-to-back, he knows it's personal, but any number of competitors or ex-employees could be the arsonist.
The police suspect Angel Ramirez, a local teen who's been in trouble before. But Mattie Baker,...
14) 7th heaven
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Women's Murder Club volume 7
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Investigating the arson deaths of a wealthy couple, San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant DA Yuki Castellano find the case further complicated by the disappearance of a former governor's son, internal pressure, and the media.
15) St. Albans fire
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 16
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In northwestern Vermont, young Bobby Cutts enters the family barn and encounters a nightmare. Surrounded by bolts of fire, Bobby and the entire herd perish in a stampeding, circle of flames. Called to the scene to investigate, Joe Gunther instantly recognizes arson. But by whom? And why? Gunther quickly discovers that someone is wreaking havoc across the bucolic farmlands surrounding the town of St. Albans. Somewhere in the dense social fabric of...
16) By the book
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Sweet Susan's Bakery has been seriously damaged by fire, and the verdict is that the fire was started on purpose. While Susan struggles to reopen her business, bookseller Mary Fisher investigates, but the more she discovers, the less she likes it.
17) Work in progress
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Mary discovers a manuscript in a old desk that is a confession to arson. She investigates whether the wrong person went to prison.
18) Backdraft 2
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When fire investigator Sean McCaffrey is assigned to investigate a deadly fire, he and partner Maggie soon realize that they are dealing with something much more than a routine fire. The clues they discover lead them down a treacherous path of arson, murder, and international terrorism. Sean must use his intuition, along with the help of infamous jailed arsonist Ronald Bartel, in a race to find out who is behind the fire and stop them from accomplishing...
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When the firefighters of Ladder Company 189 pull Clare's friends out of a blazing café, she happily comes to their rescue. As a favor to the men, she visits their firehouse kitchen to teach them the finer points of operating their newly donated espresso machine. But more than their coffee turns out to be hot. Somebody's torching cafés around the city, and firefighters are beginning to die in suspicious ways. Believing the two events are related,...
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"New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava returns in a blaze of glory with a gripping, action-packed thriller featuring special agent Maggie O'Dell, who is leading the search for a serial arsonist whose crimes threaten Maggie dangerously close to home. When a building bursts into flames on a cold winter night in D.C., investigators see a resemblance to a string of recent fires in the area. There is one difference, however: This one has a human...
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