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1) The arsonist
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
With no clear purpose after her 15 years in East Africa, Frankie Rowley returns to her small New Hampshire hometown just as a fire destroys a house just up the road from her old family farmhouse in Pomeroy. When one fire leads to several, neighbors who have long trusted each other begin to turn on their own as Frankie falls into an intense affair with the former political journalist who bought the local newspaper.
2) Blue smoke
Author
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
A dark secret threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and Hannah Connelly, when their family-owned furniture firm, 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. What was Kate, a CPA for one of the biggest accounting firms in the country, and whose sister is a rising fashion...
4) Firestorm
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen turns up the heat in this explosive new psychological thriller. This time a gifted arson investigator teams up with a mysterious operative to stop a killer raging completely out of control...
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. She can never run fast enough...
Now...
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. She can never run fast enough...
Now...
5) Slow burn
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 46
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Boston PI Spenser faces a hot case and a personal crisis in the latest adventure in the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins"--
6) Crunch time
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz invites her friend and colleague Yolanda Garcia and Yo's aunt Ferdinanda to visit after a series of fires and murders leave them homeless, and she cannot keep from getting involved in the investigation after an intruder tries to break into her house.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
On the night of October 23/24, 1995 in Prairie Village, Kansas, a fierce, wind-driven fire devastated the luxurious mansion of Dr. Debora Green and her husband, Dr. Michael Farrar. Trapped and burned to death in the flames were twelve-year-old Tim and his six-year-old sister Kelly. Lissa, ten, was barely able to leap to safety from the garage roof into the arms of her mother, who was standing outside the house. When Michael Farrar returned to the...
8) The rook
Author
Series
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
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
Book scavenger volume 2
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Mr. Quisling is definitely up to something mysterious, and Emily and James are on high alert. First, there's the coded note he drops at a book event. Then, they uncover a trail of encrypted messages in Mark Twain-penned books hidden through Book Scavenger. What's most suspicious is that each hidden book triggers an arson fire. As the sleuthing friends dig deeper, they discover Mr. Quisling has been hunting a legendary historical...
10) Scorched grace
Author
Series
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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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
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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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...
12) Top wing
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
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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...
14) The protector
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack O'Malley is a fireman who is fearless when it comes to facing an inferno. But when an arsonist begins targeting his district, his shift, his friends, Jack faces the ultimate challenge: protecting the lady who saw the arsonist before she pays an even higher price.
Introducing the O'Malleys, an inspirational group of seven, all abandoned or orphaned as teens, who have made the choice to become a loyal and committed family. They have chosen...
Introducing the O'Malleys, an inspirational group of seven, all abandoned or orphaned as teens, who have made the choice to become a loyal and committed family. They have chosen...
15) Crook Manifesto
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
A furniture store owner and ex-grifter leaves the straight and narrow path when he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter in 1971 Manhattan.
16) 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,...
18) The dark horse
Author
Series
Walt Longmire mystery volume 5
Language
English
Description
Wade Barsad, a man with a dubious past and a gift for making enemies, burned his wife Mary's horses in their barn; in retribution, she shot him in the head six times, or so the story goes. But Sheriff Walt Longmire doesn't believe Mary's confession and is determined to dig deeper. Unpinning his star to pose as an insurance investigator, Walt visits the Barsad ranch and discovers that everyone in town -- including a beautiful Guatemalan bartender and...
19) Swamp team 3
Author
Series
Publisher
NLA Digital, LLC
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
What's a little arson between friends? Undercover CIA agent Fortune Redding spent her first three weeks in Sinful, Louisiana dodging insults, makeup advice, guard dogs, bullets, and Deputy Carter LeBlanc, both professionally and personally. But just when she thinks things are going to settle down in the small bayou town, someone sets her friend Ally's house on fire. Carter, who'd just started pursuing Fortune on a personal basis, goes back into cop...