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Author
Series
Jared McKean mystery volume 4
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Nashville PI and horse whisperer Jared McKean is hired to investigate a suspicious barn fire, he finds evidence of soring, the practice of using painful shoeing or caustic chemicals to affect the gait of a Tennessee Walking Horse. But the owners, Zane and Carlin Underwood, are known anti-soring activists. Carlin's distress seems genuine, and Zane is confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed from the chest down during an attack by a frenzied stallion....
22) 7th heaven
Author
Series
Women's murder club volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Discover the Women's Murder Club's most terrifying case ever in this New York Times bestseller. As a terrible series of fires blazes through California, the heat begins to rage too close to home.
A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California's golden boy Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally...
A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California's golden boy Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally...
23) Smoke
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An evocative tale of two women navigating the secrets and lies at the heart of a wildfire threatening their town. --Publisher
24) Rogue Island
Author
Series
Liam Mulligan novel volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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.
25) Malibu burning
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames. A tsunami of fire is exactly what he needs to pull off a daring crime and avenge a fallen friend. As the most devastating firestorms in Los Angeles' history scorch the hills of Malibu, relentless arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his wild card of a...
27) Roast mortem
Author
Series
Coffeehouse mystery volume 9
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
28) Burnt offerings
Author
Series
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Feared by vampires as "The Executioner," Anita Blake finds herself not only sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the City, but also defending vampire-owned businesses from an arsonist.
29) Trail of echoes
Author
Series
Detective Elouise Norton volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
On a rainy spring day in Los Angeles, homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called away from a rare lunch date to Bonner Park, where the body of thirteen-year-old Chanita Lords has been discovered. When Lou and her partner, Colin Taggert, take on the sad task of informing Chanita's mother, Lou is surprised to find herself in the apartment building she grew up in.
30) Skies of ash
Author
Series
Detective Elouise Norton volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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. Grieving husband and father Christopher Chatman is hospitalized after trying to rescue his family, apparently devastated that he couldn't save them. The neighbors insist the Chatmans were living the dream... But Lou quickly discovers the reality was very different....
Author
Series
Jane Lawless mystery volume 25
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Fans of Jane Lawless new and old will be fascinated by newly minted Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Ellen Hart's latest intricate puzzle in A Whisper of Bones. Britt Ickles doesn't remember much from her only visit to her mother's childhood home when she was a kid, except for playing with her cousin Timmy and the eruption of a sudden family feud. That's why, when she drops by unannounced after years of silence, she's shocked when her aunts...
32) Liar liar
Author
Series
Helen Grace volume 4
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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 find the arsonist, someone whose thirst for fire--and control--is reducing entire lives to ashes.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Examines the case of Jo Ann Parks, the sole survivor and eyewitness of a Los Angeles apartment fire in which her three young children perished. Parks was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole based on forensic fire science that is now being challenged by the California Innocence Project, which contends tunnel vision and outright bias not only led to life in prison for an innocent mother, but convicted her of a crime that never actually...
34) Death du jour
Author
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
From Quebec or Montreal to the Carolinas, deaths and disappearances have come to the attention of forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. But what do all those events have to do with a century old corpse? At the crime scenes, in the morgue, or in the lab, her forensic expertise are constantly being tested.
Author
Series
Winnebago County volume 7
Publisher
The wRight Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Barns are burning in Blackwood Township, and the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office realizes they have a firesetter to flush out. The investigation ramps up when a body is found in one of the barns. Meanwhile, deputies are getting disturbing deliveries. Why are they being targeted? It leaves Sergeant Corinne Aleckson and Detective Elton Dawes to wonder, what is the firesetter's message and motive?"--
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck investigating one of the strangest, most violent, and unforgettable crimes of his career. The incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the lives of the building's eleven occupants. And if one...
37) Extended family
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Harmon Gettys is the perfect man: tall, dark, handsome, and brilliant. He'd seemingly be a catch for any woman--especially those who desire an apparently charmed offspring. But Gettys uses his seed for murder, to create a legacy of violence. For Fire Marshal Greymon Gift, gruesome burn-related murders are nothing new. But a sudden spike in his jurisdiction has Gift on high alert. When an FBI investigation links multiple arson scenes to the deceased...
Author
Series
Kate Shugak novel volume 14
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Hired by Charlotte Mauravieff, who wants to clear her mother's name of the arson fire that killed one of her brothers, private investigator Kate Shugak finds the case complicated by someone who wants the truth to stay hidden.
Author
Series
Bruno Chief of Police volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Benoit (Bruno) Courrges - devoted friend, cuisinier extraordinaire and the town's only municipal policeman - rushes to the scene when a research station for genetically modified crops is burned down outside Saint-Denis. Bruno immediately suspects a group of fervent environmentalists who live nearby, but the fire is only the first in a string of mysteries centering on the region's fertile soil. e Then a bevy of winemakers descends on Saint-Denis, competing...
40) Borrowing death
Author
Series
Charlotte Brody mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Suffragette and journalist Charlotte Brody is bracing herself for her first winter in the frontier town of Cordova in the Alaska Territory. But the chilling murder of a local store owner is what really makes her blood run cold.
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