While Pecan Springs bustles back to life in the warmth of spring, one woman's life is tragically brought to an end. China Bayles happens upon a burning house trailer and hears a woman screaming for help. The evidence leaves no doubt that it's arson homicide. Jessica Nelson, an intern-reporter at the local paper, is assigned to cover the story. When Jessica gets herself too deeply involved and disappears, China is determined to find her before she...

Young Reena Hale's life was changed forever by the fire at her family's pizzeria, for as she beheld the fire's brutal beauty and destructive power, her destiny began to take shape. She would one day understand and master its terrible force. ... When Reena finally joins the arson unit, her strength and wits are constantly tested, although sometimes the job seems like snap compared to her love life. Then she meets Bo Goodnight, who's been trying to...

Gourmand law enforcer Bruno Courréges investigates both an arson fire that targeted a GMO crop-research station and two mysterious deaths which are somehow related to the competition among three winemakers for a fertile Saint-Denis property.

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.

When the firefighters of New York's Ladder Company 189 pull Clare Cosi's friends out of a blazing café, the Village Blend coffeehouse manager happily comes to their rescue. As a favor to the men, she visits the 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...

When a mysterious fire at a stable kills six thoroughbred horses as well as a human being that no one can account for, Harrison Foster investigates the Chadwick Family, a dysfunctional horse racing dynasty. Harrison Foster, crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses. When human remains are found among the equestrian ones, all the stable staff are accounted for. So...

"Nicole Glover delivers the second book in her exciting Murder & Magic series of historical fantasy novels featuring Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, magic practitioners and detectives living in post-Civil War Philadelphia"-- Nothing bothers Hetty and Benjy Rhodes more than a case where the answers, motives, and the murder itself feel a bit too neat. Raimond Duval, a victim of one of the many fires that have erupted recently in Philadelphia,...

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, before students' lives are lost. But as Devereaux sifts through the ashes of the case, a grisly discovery at a burned-out school sends the investigation spiraling in a new, terrifying direction. The detective...

"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...

Sam investigates a fatal case of arson whose only witnesses are five-year-old twins, while her colleage Gonzo battles his opioid addiction, which threatens both his position in the department and his relationship with his fianceé.