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1) Blue smoke
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Language
English
Description
Pursuing a career as an arson investigator after a fire destroys her family's pizzeria, Reena Hale embarks on a relationship with Bo Goodnight and finds herself targeted by an arsonist who taunts her with threatening phone calls.
2) The arsonist
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English
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"Troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for 15 years, Frankie Rowley has come home--home to the small New Hampshire town of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered. On her first night back, a house up the road burns to the ground. Is it an accident, or arson? Over the weeks that follow, as Frankie comes to recognize her father's slow failing and her mother's desperation, another house burns,...
3) Firestorm
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Language
English
Description
An arson specialist and her evidence-sniffing golden retriever are at the heart of Johansen's latest explosive thriller.
4) Night smoke
Author
Series
Night Tales volume 4
Language
English
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Description
The heat rises between a man and a woman who know all too well the dangers of playing with fire in Night Smoke, a thrilling romantic Night Tales novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.
Someone has a vendetta against Fletcher Industries. Someone unafraid of torching a warehouse to ashes. Arson investigator Ryan Piasecki doesn't know if he's dealing with a pyromaniac or a calculating criminal targeting
5) Fireproof
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Series
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English
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...
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Series
Argeneau series volume 32
Language
English
Description
"Mac Argeneau knows all too well: immortals can be killed. Not with holy water or silver crosses, but by decapitation or being set on fire. So when Mac's house bursts into flames with him inside he's sure it was no accident. But who would want to kill a scientist specializing in hematology? There is a silver lining: a blonde investigator appears on the scene and sparks feelings in him that have been dormant for centuries. CJ Cummings is in town on...
7) The rook
Author
Series
Bowers files volume 2
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
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.
8) 7th heaven
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 7
Language
English
Description
As fire after fire consumes couples in expensive neighborhoods, San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends in the Womens Murder Club race to find the arsonists responsible, in a thriller with unexpected twists and emotional extremes of the kind only Patterson can deliver.
9) Crunch time
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Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Caterer and amateur sleuth-extraordinaire Goldy Schulz digs into a deadly smorgasbord that includes a heaping helping of murder, a double dose of arson ... and nine adorable beagle puppies!
Author
Series
All the wrong questions volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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.
11) Roast mortem
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English
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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...
12) Smoke
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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. After a decade long career combating wildfires, Elizabeth has traded in her former life for a quieter one with her husband. Now she works as the local arson investigator in a beautiful, quaint town in the Rockies. But that tranquil life vanishes when she and her husband agree to divorce and a fire in nearby Cooper Basin begins to spread...
14) Mike's mystery
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 5
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Alden children are excited to see their friend, Mike, while visiting their aunt, but when Mike is blamed for burning his house down, the siblings want to help Mike clear his name.
15) Death du jour
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
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.
16) Mourning Gloria
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
After a woman is killed in an arson-homicide, Jessica Nelson, an intern-reporter at the local paper, is assigned to cover the story. When Jessica disappears, China Bayles is determined to find her, before she becomes a headline herself.
17) Malibu burning
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English
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"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...
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Series
Honeychurch Hall novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Spring is in the air ... and so, too, is the sound of music as the residents of Honeychurch Hall are stunned to learn that the Dowager Countess Lady Edith Honeychurch has agreed to the staging of a production of The Merry Widow in the dilapidated grand ballroom.Fears that the fiercely private octogenarian must be going senile are soon dismissed when our heroine, Kat Stanford, learns that the favour is a result of a desperate request from Countess...
20) Backdraft
Pub. Date
1998, c1991
Language
English
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Description
Two brothers, both firefighters in Chicago, must put aside their differences while taking part in an investigation of a string of arson-murders.
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