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1) White fire
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Series
Pendergast novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protégée, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law when he uncovers a mysterious connection between long-dead miners and a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes story--one that might just offer the key to an outbreak of modern day killings involving a deadly arsonist.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"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...
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English
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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 Guetemalan bartender and...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
California private eye Kinsey Millhone takes on a case where nothing seems to add up--one apartment burgled of worthless papers, another mindlessly ransacked and destroyed, a house destroyed by arson, and a woman brutally slain.
6) Crisis
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English
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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...
7) Firewatching
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English
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"When financier Gerald Cartwright disappeared from his home six years ago, it was assumed he'd gone on the run from his creditors. But then a skeleton is found bricked up in the cellar of Cartwright's burned-out mansion, and it becomes clear Gerald never left alive. As the sole representative of South Yorkshire's Cold Case Review Unit, Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is not expected to get results, but he knows this is the case that might finally kick...
8) The arsonist
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English
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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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English
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"It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown, furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It's strictly the straight-and-narrow for him until he needs...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When two children are pulled from the smoking ruin of their home on Christmas and their parents are nowhere to be found, DI Adam Fawley is faced with one of his most disturbing cases yet as he and his team sift through the smoldering evidence to reveal a terrible truth.
11) The Dead Enders
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Ana, Davis, Erik, and Georgie, bound together by tragedy, want nothing more than to escape the small tourist town of Gold Fork, but an arsonist and the return of long-lost family members force them to confront the past.
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After a prank gone horribly wrong-- and accidentally burning down a bowling alley with his cousin and best friend, Charlie-- Moses is sentenced to "volunteer" as a camp counselor. He needs to prove to the authorities-- and to himself-- that he isn't a worthless jerk who belongs in jail. But tragedy seems to follow Moses wherever he goes, and this time it might just stop him in his tracks. -- adapted from jacket
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Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 9
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Eager to be back at work after recovering from a near-fatal injury, Simon takes on a cold-case for the Lafferton police about a girl who disappeared some years before. Meanwhile, his family adjusts to changes of its own; namely his sister's marriage to Chief Constable Kieron Bright. But when events take an unfavorable turn for the Chief Constable and an arsonist goes on a deadly rampage in Lafferton, Simon's personal and professional lives intertwine...
14) Hell's Kitchen
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Every New York City neighbourhood has a story, but what John Pellam uncovers in Hell's Kitchen has a darkness all its own. The Hollywood location scout is hoping to capture the unvarnished memories of longtime Kitchen residents in a no-budget documentary film. But when a suspicious fire ravages an elderly woman's crumbling tenement, Pellam realises that someone might want the past to stay buried. As more buildings and lives go up in flames, Pellam...
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Corie Geller volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Corie Geller asked her parents to move from their apartment into the suburban McMansion she shares with her husband and teenage daughter, she assumed they'd fit right in with the placid life she'd opted for when she left the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the FBI. But then her dad gets a call from genial and slightly nerdy film professor, April Brown--one of the victims of the case he was never able to solve. When April was five years old, she'd...
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Publisher
Arcade Crime Wise
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Set in contemporary Greece, with a gay Greek-American FBI agent, who is undercover on the island to investigate a series of mysterious fires. Set against the very real refugee crisis on the beautiful, sun-drenched Greek islands, this novel paints a loving portrait of a community in crisis. As the island residents grapple with declining tourism, poverty, refugees, family feuds, and a perilously damaged church, an arsonist invades their midst.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
We're not just siblings; we're twins. We're supposed to be able to read each other's thoughts. Although Eli is a few minutes younger, he always seemed older, always one step ahead. It turns out that Eli kept many secrets. And he told many lies. So although he was once seen as the golden child-while I stood by as the silent sister-his web of deception led to a guilty verdict for the arson that killed our parents. Now his thirteen-year sentence has...
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Series
Lil Campbell and Ada Strauss novels volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Lilian Campbell and her best friend and lover, Ada Strauss, are woken early by the sound of sirens: the local nursing home, Nillewaug Village, is ablaze. The police and fire chiefs find evidence to suggest the fire was accidental, but Detective Mattie Perez can't help but wonder why the smoke alarms didn't work. Soon, it's looking less like an accident and more like arson, and Lil and Ada are swept up into an investigation that grows increasingly...
19) Wheel of fire
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious fire at a Somerset manor house leads to a complex and intriguing case for Bristol detective David Vogel. When Sir John Fairbrother, head of one of the world's biggest private banks, burns to death, along with his nurse, in a catastrophic fire at his Somerset manor house, Detective Inspector David Vogel finds himself dealing with a complex and mystifying sequence of events. If arson was involved, as Vogel believes, the obvious suspect...
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Darling investigations volume 2
Publisher
Montlake Romance/Amazon
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Summer Butler had no idea that Darling Investigations would be such a smash. But ratings don't lie-fans love watching the former star solve real-life crimes in her hometown. With the first season wrapped, the reality-show PI is feeling the pressure to make the next one an even bigger success. Though finding a new case won't be easy-it's not like another dead body will just fall in her lap-Summer's willing to give it a try. Besides, reconciling with...
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