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Keene, Carolyn

Summary: Nancy and her boyfriend Ned visit Coffin Hall to research the library's rumored ghost, but when a fire breaks out and Ned is blamed, it is up to Nancy to find the true culprit.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022

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Ward, J. R.

Summary: "Anne Ashburn is a woman consumed . . . By her bitter family legacy, by her scorched career as a firefighter, by her obsession with department bad-boy Danny McGuire, and by a new case that pits her against a fiery killer. Strong-willed Anne was fearless and loved the thrill of fighting fires, pushing herself to be the best. But when one risky decision at a warehouse fire changes her life...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAR

Miller, Sue

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Miller 2014

Snicket, Lemony.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Company

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SNI

Summary: Backdraft: Two feuding firefighter brothers must set aside their personal differences in order to survive the burning infernos set by a maniacal arsonist.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BAC

Bojanowski, Marc

Summary: Nolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. And in 2007, while fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Nolan roams, traveling between jobs building tract homes across the West. Following a shocking workplace accident in Las Vegas, he uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads towards the ocean.On his way he passes...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOJ

Summary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOI

Byler, Linda.

Summary: "The Witnesses is the third novel in Amish novelist, Linda Byler's current series, "Lancaster Burning." Byler takes readers inside the home of the leader of the local Amish community, Davey Beiler, who finds himself at the center of mounting fear and controversy. Fires have destroyed two more nearby Amish barns, and many of the farmers are ready to ask for police protection, an unheard of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2015

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BYL

Goldberg, Lee

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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Grant, Andrew

Summary: "Detective Devereaux is hot on the heels of an arsonist--one who is targeting local schools. When long-buried bones are uncovered at the site of a fire, a deadly secret is exposed and a devastating past threatens to be revealed. Meanwhile, an enemy is determined to expose the darkest corners of Devereaux's past"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Holing, Dwight

Summary: A mysterious Native American pleads with Nick Drake to find her missing six-year-old twins. At the same time, an arsonist goes on a rampage. As Nick mounts a desperate search for the children, he is forced to fight fire with fire when the pyromaniac targets the people and land he loves.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jackdaw Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOL

Humes, Edward

Summary: "On an April night in 1989, three small children perished in a Los Angeles apartment fire. Their young mother, Jo Ann Parks, escaped unharmed. Based on forensic evidence, Parks was later convicted, sentenced to life in prison without parole. Now a young lawyer with the California Innocence Project is challenging the conviction and the so-called "science" behind it"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.152 HUM

Walker, Martin

Summary: " ... the Dordogne's great pleasures--wine, romance, and intrigue--threaten Bruno's beloved village of Saint-Denis."--Jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAL

Summary: The sequel to the 1991 hit follows an investigator with the Chicago F.D., who has to track down an arms dealer who use deadly fires as a distraction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ba

Atkins, Ace

Summary: Boston PI Spenser is approached by firefighter Jack McGee, who's convinced that the apartment blaze that took the lives of five residents and two firefighters was arson.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Atkins 2016

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ATK

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: M PAR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ATK

Hooper, Kay

Summary: Months ago Sarah Gallagher woke from a coma with psychic abilities she couldn't control. They changed her life and cost her the man she loved. And now, someone is playing games with Sarah's mind. It begins with Sarah's home being destroyed by fire, an act of arson that draws novelist Tucker Mackenzie into Sarah's confidence. Tucker has other reasons to pursue Sarah but so does a mysterious...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOO

Miller, Sue

Summary: "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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MIL

Whitehead, Colson

Summary: 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....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023

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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC WHI

Clark, Mary Higgins.

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: When her sister is wrongly implicated in an explosion that has destroyed her family's priceless antiques business and killed an employee, Hannah struggles to find clues in the ashes and discovers a life-threatening secret from the past.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Clark 2013

Crum, Laura.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRU

Davidson, Diane Mott.

Summary: 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!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2011

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAV

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS DAV

Dooley, Sarah.

Summary: After their trailer home and all their belongings are burned, twelve-year-old Ember and her Wiccan family move to a lakeside campground where Ember's anguish over losing her dog, as well as her friendship with the boy she fears started the fire, stops her from making new friends and moving on.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOO

Graham, Heather.

Summary: The newest member of the Krewe of Hunters elite paranormal team, FBI agent Ryder Stapleton must enlist the help of a beautiful museum curator with an otherworldly ability to track down a serial arsonist setting first to the streets of New Orleans.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Hemphill, Paul

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.121 HEM

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