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1) The arsonist
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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 failing and her mother's desperation, another house...
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"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 forever, Anne must reinvent not only her job, but her whole...
3) Crunch time
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Caterer and amateur sleuth-extraordinaire Goldy Schulz digs into a deadly smorgasbord that includes a heaping helping of murder, a double dose of arson ... and nine adorable beagle puppies!
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Detective Cooper Devereaux thrillers volume 2
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"The second installment in the extraordinary Cooper Devereaux mystery thriller series, which combines the atmosphere of James Lee Burke and Craig Johnson with the noir brilliance of Robert Crais An arsonist is targeting schools in Birmingham, Alabama--with devastating effect. Detective Devereaux--a man you can't quite trust and should never ignore--must put a stop to the elusive pyromaniac's reign of terror before more damage is done. Or worse, before...
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2019.
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"The day gets off to a bad start for Montalbano: while trying to break up a fight on Marinella beach, he hits the wrong man and is stopped by the Carabinieri. When he finally gets to the office, the inspector learns about a strange abduction: a woman was abducted, drugged, and then released unharmed a few hours later. A few days later, the same thing happens again. The only link between the two events is that both women are thirty years old and work...
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Lucy Stone mysteries volume 3
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It's October in Maine, and everyone in Tinker's Cove is preparing for the annual Halloween festival. While Lucy Stone is whipping up orange-frosted cupcakes, recycling tutus for her daughters' Halloween costumes, helping her son with his pre-teen rebellion, and breast-feeding her brand-new bay, an arsonist is loose in Tinker's Cove. When the latest fire claims the life of the owner of the town's oldest house, arson turns into murder. . .
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2017.
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"Henning Mankell's last novel about an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside down when his house catches fire. Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier to a tiny island on which he is the only resident. He has a daughter he rarely sees and his mailman Jansson is the closest thing he has to a friend, and to an adversary. He is perfectly content to live out...
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Nancy Drew diaries volume 23
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2022.
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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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Nathan Active mysteries volume 4
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Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active must figure out what connects a dead hunter on a remote Arctic lake with a year-old fatal plane crash in the Brooks Range and a fire that killed eight people.
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Annie's attic mysteries volume 15
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c2012
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223 p. ; 22 cm.
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In the 15th book of the cozy mystery series, Annie Dawson and her friends in the Hook and Needle Club investigate cryptic notes in an old Bible that belonged Annie's grandfather's uncle, a judge who may have kept a terrible secret.
11) The protector
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O'Malley series (Dee Henderson) volume 4
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Jack O'Malley is a fireman who is fearless when it comes to facing an inferno. But when an arsonist begins targeting his district, his shift, his friends, Jack faces the ultimate challenge: protecting the lady who saw the arsonist before she pays an even higher price.
Introducing the O'Malleys, an inspirational group of seven, all abandoned or orphaned as teens, who have made the choice to become a loyal and committed family. They have chosen...
Introducing the O'Malleys, an inspirational group of seven, all abandoned or orphaned as teens, who have made the choice to become a loyal and committed family. They have chosen...
12) Liar liar
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Helen Grace novels volume 4
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Detective Helen Grace gets caught in an inferno of death and destruction in the red-hot new thriller from the author of Eeny Meeny, Pop Goes the Weasel, and The Doll's House ... Detective Helen Grace has never seen such destruction. Six fires in twenty-four hours. Two people dead. Several more injured. It's as if someone wants to burn the city to the ground ... With the whole town on high alert, Helen and her team must sift through the rubble to find...
14) Death du jour
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 2
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In the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, Temperance Brennan is digging for a corpse buried more than a century ago. Although Tempe thrives on such enigmas from the past, it's a chain of contemporary deaths and disappearances that has seized her attention, and she alone is ideally placed to make a chilling connection among the seemingly unrelated events. At the crime scene, at the morgue, and in the lab, Tempe probes a mystery that sweeps from a deadly...
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"From the author of the acclaimed bestseller Sister comes a gripping, thrilling story of a mother who will do anything to protect her child. The school was on fire, and Grace's last memory is of trying to reach her daughter, Jenny, trapped inside the inferno. While their burned bodies are frantically cared for by doctors, Grace and Jenny awaken in the hospital in a strange in-between state. When they learn that someone purposefully set the fire, and...
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c2009
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326 p. ; 24 cm.
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When lawyer Hunter Lee leaves the New York City rat race that made him rich but cost him his marriage, he sets out to build a new life in Fort Mason, Montana. His friend Paul Brule, a fire jumper, shows him the reality of vast tracts of forest reduced to ash in seconds by hundred-foot walls of flame. Hunter comes to suspect that this particular rash of summer fires is anything but accidental and could be serving a more sinister purpose. -- from...
18) 6 Rainier Drive
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Cedar Cove series volume 6
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The aftermath of a fire at the Lighthouse restaurant and the search for an arsonist spark the sixth volume of smalltown drama set in Macomber's fictional Washington town of Cedar Cove (after 50 Harbor Street). Justine and Seth Gunderson, the owners of the Lighthouse, are divided by their reactions to the tragedy; Seth is obsessed with rebuilding as quickly as possible, while Justine wants to take advantage of their newly found free time. Meanwhile,...
19) The Skirt Man
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Small-town eccentric Morgan Mason is held in local disfavor for wearing a skirt, but when he is killed in a mysterious house fire, clues are uncovered that reveal hidden conflicts and a shocking discovery that will change the lives of everyone in Killdeer, New York.
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Bishop files volume 1
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Within the FBI, there exists a team of psychics whose powers cannot be denied. But these agents are feared by a cabal of conspirators with only one weapon to blind the psychics to the evils all around them. Months ago Sarah Gallagher woke from a coma with psychic abilities she couldn't control. They changed her life and cost her the man she loved. And now, someone is playing games with Sarah's mind. It begins with Sarah's home being destroyed by...
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