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Arson Fiction Arson investigation Fiction Bayles, China (Fictitious character) Fiction Family-owned business enterprises Fiction Herbalists Fiction Large type books Murder Investigation Fiction Pyromania Fiction Texas Hill Country (Tex.) Fiction Women detectives California Los Angeles FictionSnicket, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Company
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SNIWard, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARJames, Steven
Summary: When Special Agent Patrick Bowers is called in to investigate an arson attack on a top-secret research facility, he is caught up in a race against time to stop an international assassin before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMMiller, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Miller 2014Goldberg, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLCoyle, Cleo.
Summary: After local firefighters pull Clare out of a blazing café, she happily comes to their rescue by teaching them the finer points of operating their newly donated espresso machine. But matters really heat up when somebody is torching cafes around the city and firefighters begin to die in suspicious ways...Believing the two events are related, Clare investigates, staking out a five-borough bake...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COYTerrell, Jaden
Summary: When Nashville PI and horse whisperer Jared McKean is hired to investigate a suspicious barn fire, he finds evidence of soring, the practice of using painful shoeing or caustic chemicals to affect the gait of a Tennessee Walking Horse. But the owners, Zane and Carlin Underwood, are known anti-soring activists. Carlin's distress seems genuine, and Zane is confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TERGraham, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRARobinson, Peter
Summary: In the early hours of the morning a man reports a fire on two old canal boats. A firefighter notices accelerant has been used but by the time Banks arrives only the wreckage remains. A body has been found on each vessel and all the evidence points to a deliberate arson attack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pan 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBClark, Mary Higgins.
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Clark 2013Walker, Martin
Summary: " ... the Dordogne's great pleasures--wine, romance, and intrigue--threaten Bruno's beloved village of Saint-Denis."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALGrant, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASjowall, Maj
Summary: "The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjw̲all and Per Wahl,̲̲ finds Beck investigating one of the strangest, most violent, and unforgettable crimes of his career. The incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2009
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALBClark, Mary Higgins.
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLAHart, Ellen
Summary: "Fans of Jane Lawless new and old will be fascinated by newly minted Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Ellen Hart's latest intricate puzzle in A Whisper of Bones. Britt Ickles doesn't remember much from her only visit to her mother's childhood home when she was a kid, except for playing with her cousin Timmy and the eruption of a sudden family feud. That's why, when she drops by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARKane, Andrea.
Summary: A novel that takes place in the world of competitive horse show jumping offers a tale of murder and suspense involving a former NYPD detective, his grown daughter, and his missing ex-wife, who is either an innocent victim or a suspect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: Hired by a woman to clear her mother's name, Kate must confront twenty years of secrets and murder in one of Alaska's most powerful families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STADeSilva, Bruce.
Summary: When journalist Liam Mulligan realizes that someone is systematically burning down his childhood neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, he ignores his bosses and his budding relationship to figure out the firebug's identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DESDaheim, Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: "Beleaguered Police Detective Frank Coffin is on the trail of a firebug in Fire Season, the third in this sharply witty mystery series set in Provincetown, Massachusetts Until a replacement can be found, Frank Coffin is pulling double duty as a detective and interim police chief for the Provincetown, Mass. Police. The off-season has just started for this tourist town and the streets should be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOOMiller, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MILAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: Now ex-lawyer and current herbalist, China Bayles must stop a killer who is burning through Texas. Set to solve the mystery-homicide case, China must find the reporter assigned to the case before Jessica Nelson becomes a headline herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M ALBHall, Rachel Howzell
Summary: "On a rainy spring day in Los Angeles, homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called away from a rare lunch date to Bonner Park, where the body of thirteen-year-old Chanita Lords has been discovered. When Lou and her partner, Colin Taggert, take on the sad task of informing Chanita's mother, Lou is surprised to find herself in the apartment building she grew up in. Chanita was interested in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2016