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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

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WAR

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAR

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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

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

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

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

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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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

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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2015

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BYL

Francis, Felix

Summary: Harrison Foster is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses. There is far more to the 'simple' fire than initially meets the eye. For one, human remains are found among the equestrian ones. Who is the mystery victim? Harry is thrust unwillingly into the world of thoroughbred racing where the standard of care of the equine stars is far higher than...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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

Mehl, Nancy

Summary: When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, FBI profiler Kaely Quinn 'takes time off work to go to Dark Water, Nebraska. The area has been hit by a series of fires, attributed by the fire chief to misuse of space heaters in the frigid winter. Kaely's search for a pattern in the locations of the fires lead her to suspect arson. Calling upon her partner from St. Louis, Noah Hunter, and a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Bowen, Peter

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOW

De los Santos, Marisa

Summary: "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,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DE L

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DE L

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEL

McKenzie, Catherine.

Summary: An evocative tale of two women navigating the secrets and lies at the heart of a wildfire threatening their town. After a decadelong 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCK

Douaihy, Margot

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Summary: "When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding New Orleans community are thrust into chaos. Patience is a virtue, but punk rocker turned nun Sister Holiday isn't satisfied to just wait around for officials to return her home and sanctuary to its former peace, instead deciding to unveil the mysterious attacker...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gillian Flynn Books, a Zando imprint 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOU

Jackson, Lisa.

Summary: When she was only 16, Cassidy Buchanan fell for the 19-year-old bad boy in town, Brig McKenzie--who'd had his share of run-ins with both the law and the local women. Then a terrible fire killed Cassidy's sister, and Brig, the chief suspect, was forced to run away. Seventeen years later, an eerily similar fire seriously injures Cassidy's husband Chase, who happens to be Brig's brother. With the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books 2005

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JAC

Francis, Felix

Summary: "After receiving death threats, an ex-jockey trainer friend calls private investigator Sid Halley to ask for his help, but Sid has his own problems to deal with. When his friend's stable yard is torched, horses killed, and the friend is found dead, Sid can only blame himself for not helping sooner. The police think it's suicide, but Sid is not convinced after his friend's terrified phone calls....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRA

Bruen, Ken

Summary: "Jack Taylor has finally escaped his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway's Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called "Miracle of Galway." People have become...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRU

Atkins, Ace

Summary: After an apartment fire kills seven people, including two firemen, firefighter Jack McGee is convinced it was arson. McGee takes the case to Spenser who discovers it may just be one fire in a string of arson murders.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Atkins 2016

Childs, Laura

Summary: When their longtime friend at County services, Hannah Venable, dies in a fire, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni, vowing to find the arsonist, investigate a possible connection with the nearby Prairie Star Casino.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

Eriksson, Kjell

Summary: "Swedish police inspector Ann Lindell finally returns in internationally bestselling and award-winning Kjell Eriksson's newest novel. Police inspector Ann Lindell has left the Uppsala police and is living a quiet life, producing local cheese in a small town in Uppland. But life in the country is not as idyllic as it seems. On New Year's Eve someone sets fire to the former village school which...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERI

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERI

MacBride, Stuart.

Summary: Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae has been bumped to the "Screw-up Squad," a team made up of the most worthless or inexperienced members of the homicide department, and Logan will do anything to prove he doesn't belong there. Including working overtime on two baffling cases: the murder by arson of six people, and the beating to death of a prostitute down by the docks, not a high priority compared...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAC

Kennett, Richard D.

Summary: Todd Newman has a seemingly life-limiting learning disability. A born and bred Vermonter, he speaks differently than his neighbors. His words don’t flow, and he can be difficult to understand. These differences make him feel trapped and troubled, which makes him lash out. After being arrested for arson, Todd’s life begins to change. He returns home to his small New England town, where his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Richard D. Kennett 0000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEN

Childs, Laura

Summary: "Tea-Maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier Drayton Conneley are guests at a bird hunt styled in the precise manner of an English shooting party. Which means elevenses (sloe gin fizzes), gun loaders, the drawing of pegs, fine looking bird dogs, and shooting...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

Crum, Laura.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRU

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