Pyro
(Large Print)
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Published
Thorndike, Me : Center Point Pub., 2005, c2004.
Format
Large Print
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Status
Port Angeles - Large Print Fiction
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Published
Thorndike, Me : Center Point Pub., 2005, c2004.
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 23 cm.
Street Date
0502
Language
English
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Description
As exciting as a police procedural, this novel is, instead, a "fireman's procedural", tracing the story of a fire lieutenant's death twenty-five years ago in an arson fire, the failed hunt for the pyromaniac who set it, and the "pyro's" possible return to action in Seattle during a spate of recent arsons. Twenty-nine-year-old Paul Wollf is the son of this lieutenant, who died when Wollf was only four, an event which destroyed his childhood. His mother, unable to cope, descended into depression and alcoholism and neglected the children. Six years later, they witnessed her murder by their stepfather, who was then murdered himself. When a string of recent arsons keeps the station busy all night for several nights in a row, Wolff notices an odd "signature" to the fires, the same "signature" that appeared at the fire that killed his father twenty-five years ago. Determined to avenge his father's death, Wollf is often stymied by jealousies and bureaucracy within his own department. An angry man who has never been able to form close relationships, perhaps due to his traumatic past, Wollf has no one in whom he can confide. When his favorite film star of the past, the elderly Patricia Pennington, is the victim of one of these new fires, Wollf meets both her granddaughter and housekeeper, two women of markedly different temperaments, both of whom play key roles in the events which follow.