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1) The arsonist
Author
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"On a night no one will ever forget, Della Black and three of her seven children are killed in a horrific fire in their trailer. As the surviving children are caught in the middle of a custody battle between their well-intentioned neighbor and their father and his pregnant mistress, new truths about what really happened the night of the fire come to light. When the fire marshal determines the cause - arson - rumors quickly circulate as the townspeople...
4) The rook
Author
Series
Bowers Files volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
While investigating a series of baffling fires in San Diego, FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers is drawn into a deadly web of intrigue where nothing is as it appears to be. With his own criminology research being turned against him and one of the worlds most deadly devices missing, Bowers is caught up in a race against time to stop a criminal mastermind's trap before it closes around him and the people he loves.
Author
Series
Annie's secrets of the quilt volume 9
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Ever since Jessop Norton came into her life he has been a thorn in the side of Sofia Parker and her family. Norton is a city councilman in Sofia's hometown of Cabot Falls, a small business owner and the Parkers' next door neighbor. First the municipal curmudgeon seeks a court injunction to stop their sons, Luke and Matthew, from building a tree house in their backyard but then things really get ugly. A fire during the town's Founder's Day celebration...
6) Firestorm
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Description
"For Kerry Murphy, the inferno is never far away. The flames of that long-ago night still burn in her nightmares: the heat, the choking smoke, the helplessness. Now Kerry works as an arson investigator with her evidence-sniffing dog, Sam. Together they're a great team ... Suddenly the flames are back ... But the killer Kerry is supposed to find has already found her ..."--Container.
7) Backdraft 2
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
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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...
Author
Publisher
Guideposts Books
Pub. Date
2007
Description
When Kate and Paul Hanton leave their home in San Antonio to take over the pastorate of Faith Briar Church, they are excited about embracing the small town way of life, but when they arrive in Copper Mill to see their new church in flames it quickly becomes clear that nothing is as it seems. And when evidence shows that the fire is not an accident, Kate knows who has to discover who is beind it.
10) Blue smoke
Author
Description
Pursuing a career as an arson investigator after a fire destroys her family's pizzeria, Rena Hale embarks on a relationship with Bo Goodnight and finds herself targeted by an arsonist who taunts her with threatening phnone calls.
12) 7th heaven
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
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.
13) St. Albans fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
©2012
Description
"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...
15) Rogue Island
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Los Angeles homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton and her partner, Colin Taggert, arrive at the scene of a tragic house fire. Juliet Chatman perished in the blaze, along with her two children. Left behind is grieving husband and father Christopher Chatman, hospitalized after trying to rescue his family. Chatman is devastated that he couldn't save them. Unless, of course, he's the one who killed them. Neighbors and family friends insist the Chatmans...
17) Count to ten
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Veteran firefighter and arson investigator Reed Solliday and his new partner, homicide detective Mia Mitchell, track an insidious killer with a penchant for utter destruction who uses fire as his weapon and who has set his sights on Mia.
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Detective Helen Grace gets caught in an inferno of death and destruction in the red-hot new thriller from the author of Eeny Meeny, Pop Goes the Weasel, and The Doll's House ... Detective Helen Grace has never seen such destruction. Six fires in twenty-four hours. Two people dead. Several more injured. It's as if someone wants to burn the city to the ground ... With the whole town on high alert, Helen and her team must sift through the rubble to...
Author
Series
All the wrong questions volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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.
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