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81) Mourning Gloria
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China Bayles mysteries volume 19
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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. But she's gotten herself too deeply involved. When Jessica disappears, China is determined to find her, before...
82) The witnesses
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Lancaster burning volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Fires have destroyed two more nearby Amish barns, and many of the farmers are ready to ask for police protection, an unheard of action. Davey Beiler, the leader of the local Amish community, counsels against this, but then his beloved daughter, Sarah, is caught in the flames and severely injured"--
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 95
Pub. Date
1990
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In San Francisco Nancy Drew helps an architect investigate the suspicious fires at his construction sites and tries to explain the evidence implicating his own daughter.
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Amish quilter Sarah Bitler's dreams no longer feature a husband and family. Instead, she searches for success in the quilt shop within Blackburn House, a place once tarnished with deadly secrets. She refuses to let the past influence her future���until an ominous fire forces them to collide. Firefighter Aaron King was the first to touch Sarah's heart���and the first to break it. Now a widower and father of two small girls, his return...
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Alayna Curry volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Kill your secrets . . . Volunteer Virginia Beach firefighter Alayna Curry used to pride herself on saving lives. But now, determined to conceal her part in an arson-for-insurance scam gone bad, she's using her skills to have the scheme's leader, Tim--her ex-lover--shot dead, claiming it was a robbery. She's carefully set him up to be the ultimate fall guy. And she's ruthlessly aiming to silence more witnesses--which will also get her beloved brother...
86) Fire engine dead
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Pub. Date
2012
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When the entire collection of the Fireman's Museum ironically goes up in flames, Nell Pratt discovers one of the charred pictures isn't the one that was originally exhibited. But getting to the bottom of the mystery is bound to get Nell burned.
87) Before the storm
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Pub. Date
c2008
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Laural Lockwood's 15-year-old son Andy is "special". She lost him once through neglect, but is determined to make up for her mistakes. When she allows Andy to attend a local church social she is terrified whenthe church is consumed by fire. Andy survives and saves other children as well. Initially Andy basks in the role of unlikely hero but when the suspicion of arson is cast upon Andy, Laurel must ask herself how wellshe really knows her son,...
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Trixie Belden volume 35
Pub. Date
c1984
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Supersleuth Trixie Belden searches for an arsonist after a fire destroys a local store and a warehouse during the annual Memorial Day parade.
89) Turning the tide
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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"Quaker midwife Rose Carroll finds the body of a local suffrage organizer during the presidential election of 1888"--
90) The blaze
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"Having lost much of his memory from a traumatic brain injury sustained in Iraq, army veteran Matthew Rose is called back to Montana after his father's death to settle his affairs, and hopefully to settle the past as well. It's not only a blank to him, but a mystery. Why as a teen did he suddenly become sullen and vacant, abandoning the activities and people that had meant most to him? How did he, the son of hippy activists, wind up enlisting in the...
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[2020]
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Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle of friends for whom she would do anything. Because of one terrible night, she loses them all, and her adventurous spirit, seemingly forever. While the town cheers on the high school football team, someone sets the school's auditorium ablaze. Ginny's best friend Gray Marsden's father, a fire fighter, dies in the blaze. While many in the town believe a notoriously...
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Lancaster burning volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Sarah Beiler grows increasingly concerned about Ashley, her friend who also works at the farmers market. Ashley acts strange, even nervous, when anyone talks about the rash of fires. When Sarah asks her what she knows, Ashley only heightens Sarah's suspicions. But that not Sarah's only trouble. She remains distracted by Matthew Stoltzfus, who says that God is calling him to leave the Amish community. When he begs her to join him, Sarah's heart is...
94) Sinister
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Eighteen years ago, a fire ravaged the Dillinger family's old homestead, killing Judd Dillinger and crippling his girlfriend. Some t people in town thought it was just another strike in the old feud between the Dillingers and their rivals, the Kincaids. Life in Prairie Creek, Wyoming, has been quiet ever since, but now strange things are happening again. Ira Dillinger, the family's wealthy patriarch, has summoned his children home for his upcoming...
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c1958,c2005
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When Matt Freeman arrives in the small town of Tumbleweek, Nebraska he finds that his brother, Fred, had been killed in a gunfight earlier that day and his flourmill had been set on fire. Matt knew that his brother had hidden a box that contained clues to the unrest, but he didn't know hwere it was hidden.
96) Wildfire
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Pub. Date
2014.
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Sadie Speer's friend Virginia asks her to help research the history of Silver Peak's first schoolhouse for a presentation at a fund-raiser. The historic one-room structure dated back to the early days of the mining town's boom years but was destroyed by a fire in 1964. The authorities deemed it an accident, but Virginia isn't so sure.
97) Count to ten
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Pub. Date
c2007
Description
When a series of arsons turns out to hide a homicide, Detectove Mia Mitchell teams up with Chicago Fire Department Lt. Reed Solliday to track down the firebug killer. Still reeling from her father's death and her last case, which landed her partner, Abe, in the hospital, Mia's not pleased to be teaming up with someone new-especially with Abe's assailant still on the loose. Reed has his doubts as well, suspecting that Mia isn't ready to be back on...
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Whidbey Island saga volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Someone is setting fires on Whidbey Island and Becca King and her friends may know who the arsonist is.
99) Magic fire
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Mark Charm, a pyromaniac, decides to burn the entire state of California.
100) The perfect match
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Pub. Date
c2011
Description
"Join Annie Peterson as she follows the clues to discover who set fire to the local dating service, the Perfect Match. Is the arsonist the financially strapped widow who owns the matchmaking business, a mismatched newspaper editor, an unsatisfied and unmarried forty-something customer, or the new female investigator who, except for her suspicious past, seems the ideal mate for Annie's son Devin? The race is on--to see whether or not Annie and her...