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Firefighters (J.R. Ward) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
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A "novel about arson investigator Ann Ashburn, who is consumed by her troubled past, her family's scorched legacy, and her current case: chasing a deadly killer"--
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Lou Boldt and Daphne Matthews novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[1997]
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Seattle Police Sergeant Lou Boldt and psychologist Daphne Matthews are in pursuit of a homicidal arsonist who is targeting single mothers, and must rely on the testimony of a twelve-year-old boy who may hold the key to the identity of the killer.
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. "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...
44) Into the fire
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Undaunted courage volume 1
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"As a former smokejumper, arson investigator Bri Tucker knows her way around fires. But after a mysterious blaze takes the life of a former colleague, Bri inherits a curious puzzle from him that raises questions about several fiery deaths. Someone, however, doesn't want her picking up where he left off in search of answers. When she teams up with ATF Special Agent Marc Davis to solve the puzzle, the danger escalates. But will they manage to track...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 103
Pub. Date
c1991
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When a fire hits the home of Nancy's neighbors, Nancy investigates whether Paula, a Dutch foreign exchange student staying with them, is somehow connected.
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2022.
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It’s Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias―the garden club in little Darling, Alabama―are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn’t easy, though, since there’s a firebug on the loose in Darling. He―or she!―strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What’s more, a dangerous hurricane is poised to hurl itself in Darling’s direction,...
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2018.
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"...currently wanted by the police. If you know anything about the suspect's whereabouts, please call..." I look up at the TV screen, and my twin brother's face is splashed across it, life-size. It's a shock that makes my breath catch. This is my brother as an adult, my brother who I last saw fifteen years ago after the fire that killed our parents, covered in soot, clutching a lighter in his hand, his knuckles stark white against the dirt and ash....
49) Trial by fury
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
c1986
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The dead body discovered in a Seattle dumpster was shocking enough--but equally disturbing was the manner of death. A homicide detective with twenty years on the job, J.P. Beaumont knows this case is a powder keg, and he fears where this investigation will lead him.
50) Little secrets
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[2017]
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"An arsonist is on the loose in Colmstock, Australia, most recently burning down the town's courthouse and killing a young boy who was trapped inside. The clock is ticking for Rose Blakey. With nothing but rejections from newspapers piling up, her job pulling beers for cops at the local tavern isn't nearly enough to cover rent. Rose needs a story and its a big one. In the weeks after the courthouse fire, precise porcelain replicas of Colmstock's daughters...
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All the wrong questions volume 3
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Do you smell smoke? Young apprentice Lemony Snicket is investigating a case of arson but soon finds himself enveloped in the ever-increasing mystery that haunts the town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea. Who is setting the fires? What secrets are hidden in the Department of Education? Why are so many schoolchildren in danger? Is it all the work of the notorious villain Hangfire? How could you even ask that? What kind of education have you had?
52) Fire color one
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[2017]
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Following her fortune-hunting mother's plan, a teenaged arsonist meets her wealthy, dying father, the owner of a priceless art collection, only to discover that the stories she has been told about him all her life might not have been true.
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c2004
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Ellie Karlson shocks residents of Deep Haven-including Pastor Dan Matthews, a volunteer firefighter-when she becomes interim fire chief. As Dan and Ellie work together to solve a string of mysterious arson fires, their mutual love and respect for each other builds.
54) Home fires
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[1998]
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North Carolina judge Deborah Knott investigates the burning of four black churches. Suspects include one of her nephews and to clear his name she must find the real arsonists. By the author of Up Jumps the Devil.
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Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 8
Pub. Date
c2011
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When the Thea sisters travel to New York to visit Pamela's family, who owns a pizzeria, someone threatens to burn the restaurant down, and the five mice must catch the troublemaker and solve the mystery.
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2015.
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Eleven-year-old Footer and her friends investigate when a nearby farm is burned, the farmer murdered, and his children disappear, but as they follow the clues, Footer starts having flashbacks and wonders if she is going crazy like her mother, who is back in a mental institution near their Mississippi home.
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2015.
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There is an arsonist setting fires in town. Journalist Claire Abbott thinks she knows who the firebug is. Or does she? Realizing she cannot rely solely on her sixth sense to solve this crime, Claire sets out to catch the arsonist in the act before he ends up killing someone.
58) Fire on the fens
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2018.
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The fens are burning and Detective Nikki Galena faces a cat-and-mouse battle with a killer arsonist. Someone is lighting fires. First they target homes and businesses, but then a body is found at one of the crime scenes. More fires are lit. And at each one a single person dies. But the victims have led spotless lives and apparently there’s no connection between them. Meanwhile, the town is facing a very peculiar threat from a group of sinister Satanists...
59) Watch you burn
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[2018]
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Jenny, seventeen, moves to small-town New Mexico with her father after police nearly discover she is an arsonist but her urge to start fires persists, and she konws she is being watched.
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Corie Geller volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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"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...