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122) The circle
Author
Series
Inspector Hen Mallin novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Widowed van driver Bob Naylor is prodded into joining the Chichester Writers' Circle by his teenage daughter. Bob writes limericks and jingles, and fears he will be out of his class among the literati. But the members of the circle come from all walks of life and practice many forms of writing, from fantasy to household hints. There seems to be nothing about any of them to incite a serial killer. However, there is an arsonist in their midst, burning...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"It was late evening when the wind over a brush-choked canyon in northern California unexpectedly shifted and roared downhill. The Rattlesnake Fire had been burning since midday on the Mendocino National Forest. The fresh, violent wind picked up embers from the fire and spun them down into the depths of the canyon, blowing into a thunderous torrent of fire. The sight mesmerized veteran firefighters. Long, fatal minutes passed before they remembered...
125) His brother's guns
Author
Pub. Date
c1958,c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
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.
126) The mastermind plot
Author
Series
Suzanna Snow mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1904, eleven-year-old Suzanna is delighted with her grandmother's invitation to spend time in Boston and thrilled to help her famous uncle investigate a series of arsons, but much less pleased to be enrolled in Miss Lydia Doucette's Academy for Young Ladies.
127) Cross-check
Author
Series
Blackgaard Chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Dr. Blackgaard shows he will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Evil Dr. Regis Blackgaard is desperate to gain ownership of a building not far from Whit's End. To get it, he and his henchmen will resort to corruption and blackmail. Why is that building so important to him? Meanwhile, Connie longs to make things right with Whit. Can she convince him she has learned her lesson and deserves to be trusted again? Then Blackgaard and his pawns go even...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Description
When Sally Montgomery accompanies her handsome boss Frederick Pierson on a quiet country weekend, she enjoys the first evening. But when she discovers his battered body the next morning, she runs for her life. Now it's up to Pete, her ex-husband and former New York policeman, to keep her safe and find the killer.
129) Beyond recognition
Author
Series
Lou Boldt and Daphne Matthews novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012] C2013;
Description
Mystery ranch: The Alden's visit their mysterious Aunt Jane at her run-down ranch and make a surprising discovery! Mike's mystery : A nearby house burns down while the Boxcar Children are staying with their Aunt Jane and their friend Mike is blamed for starting the fire! Blue Bay mystery : The Alden's are excited to visit a deserted South Seas island. But soon they discover clues that they are not alone. Is someone on the island watching them?
132) The silent suspect
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 95
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
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.
133) Fire in the Night
Author
Series
Lancaster burning volume 1
Formats
Description
The Amish community of Lancaster is being terrorized by barn fires. David and Malinda Beiler's barn was the first to go. The clues are sparse, but Levi, the Beiler's oldest son, happened to be awake in the middle of the night and spotted a white vehicle driving past the house with its lights off. Sarah, David and Malinda's daughter, is in her late teens and old enough to observe her parents' agony. Not only is she afraid, too, and wishing she could...
Author
Description
"In the Pre-Dawn Hours of October 19, 1998, a commando-style arson destroyed or damaged $12 million worth of chair lifts and mountaintop buildings at Vail, Colorado, the largest ski resort in the United States. The timing of the fires indicated a calculated attack, since the fires were set on the same day the ski area's owners were about to begin construction for a controversial expansion into an old-growth forest on federally owned land. Within days,...
135) Count to ten
Author
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...
136) The perfect match
Author
Series
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...
Author
Series
Book scavenger volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Emily and James discover coded notes written by Mr. Quisling and encrypted messages in Mark Twain books, and with each book triggering an arson, the team suspects that Mr. Quisling is after an unbreakable code and may be the arsonist.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
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.
139) Trail of echoes
Author
Series
Detective Elouise Norton novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"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 photography and, much like Lou, a black girl destined...
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