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Emma Lord mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
When peaceful Alpine, Washington, is stunned by a case of arson, newspaper editor Emma Lord and Sheriff Milo Dodge soon discover that the fire had been used to cover up the more sinister crime of murder.
62) Firehorse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby is determined to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.
63) Breathing fire
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Pub. Date
2023
Description
When Harper Lindsay narrowly escapes a ferocious fire that destroys her rental home, the people in her hometown of Carlson, Texas are horrified. Why would an arsonist want to kill her? Fire Chief Aaron Lassiter is even more suspicious...
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Nancy Drew diaries volume 23
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
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.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
There is an arsonist setting fires in town. Journalist Claire Abbott thinks she knows who the firebug is. Or does she? Realizing she cannot rely solely on her sixth sense to solve this crime, Claire sets out to catch the arsonist in the act before he ends up killing someone.
66) Dying light
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Series
Logan McRae mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
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 to the fire. At least not until another prostitute ends...
69) The Rook
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Series
Bowers files volume 2
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
While investigating a series of baffling fires in San Diego, FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers is drawn into a deadly web of intrigue where nothing is as it appears to be. With his own criminology research being turned against him and one of the worlds most deadly devices missing, Bowers is caught up in a race against time to stop a criminal mastermind's trap before it closes around him and the people he loves.
70) Silent mercy
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Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is called to Harlem's Mount Neboh Baptist Church, a beautiful house of worship originally built as a synagogue, where the body of a young woman has been decapitated and set on fire. Alex wonders if the fire was meant to destroy the body, or to draw attention to it. A second corpse is found at a cathedral in Little Italy. Alex mines the depths of Manhattan's many houses of worship to find a connection between the victims...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"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 costumes of tweed, herringbone, and suede. But as gunshots...
72) Tabula rasa
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Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Arson investigator Billy Nightingale and his brother-in-law, Sebastian Bly, are called in to investigate a house fire that killed two young children, and the discovery of a baby hiding under the porch and suspicious details at the fire scene lead the two men on a search for a muderous mother.
73) Burning secrets
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Series
Tearoom mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"As Jan prepares for a group tea one autumn afternoon, she glances out the window and sees sa plume of smoke arising from one of Macy Atherton's Green Glade cottages! Macy's desperate plea for Jan's and Elaine's help is followed by the appearance of Deputy Sheffield, who seems intent on questioning their sometimes difficult neighbor and customer. Arson? With Macy as the prime suspect? But not everything is as it appears. As Jan and Elaine follow the...
74) Aviary
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"At the deteriorating Pheasant Run, the occupants keep their secrets and sadnesses locked tight behind closed apartment doors. Kind Leo Umberti, formerly an insurance agent, now quietly spends his days painting abstract landscapes and mourning a long-ago loss. Down the hall, retired professor Rydell Clovis tries desperately to stay fit enough to restart a career in academia. Cassie McMackin, on the same floor, has seemingly lost everything - her husband...
76) Fire on the fens
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The fens are burning and Detective Nikki Galena faces a cat-and-mouse battle with a killer arsonist. Someone is lighting fires. First they target homes and businesses, but then a body is found at one of the crime scenes. More fires are lit. And at each one a single person dies. But the victims have led spotless lives and apparently there’s no connection between them. Meanwhile, the town is facing a very peculiar threat from a group of sinister Satanists...
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 8
Description
PI Carlotta Carlyle of Boston investigates the death of an old lady who refused to give up her apartment for a development project. When an attempt is made to burn Carlotta's house, she knows she is onto something..
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Sister Holiday novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
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 herself. Her investigation leads her down a twisty path...
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Book scavenger volume 2
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 a fire, the team suspects that Mr. Quisling is after an unbreakable code and may be the arsonist.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray's latest Christmas novel in her Amish of Hart County series. It's set to be a white Christmas in Hart County, and Grace King is pet-sitting in a beautiful home with only a difficult dachshund for company. Just as she starts to miss the bustle of her large Amish family, Grace runs into a familiar face. Living right next door is John Michael Miller. He's a fireman now, but five years...
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