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John Pellam mysteries volume 3
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English
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In Hell's Kitchen, New York City, to work on a low-budget documentary on the area's colorful history, ex-stuntman-turned-location-scout John Pellam finds himself investigating a series of suspicious fires that may be linked to efforts to hide the past
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"In Laura Childs's New York Times bestselling mystery series, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni--co-owners of the Cackleberry Club Café are equally good at serving up breakfast and serving up justice. This time they turn up the heat on a deadly firebug... As Suzanne is getting her hair colored at Root 66, she's stunned to witness the County Services office next door suddenly go up in flames. Concerned neighbors throng the streets, and the fire department...
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Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson donate their time to raise money for the rebuilding of a burned-out museum, but the murder of museum board chair Kathy Lamb places a fellow shopkeeper under suspicion, and Gemma becomes entangled in the investigation.
Gemma Doyle is walking her dog when she smells smoke outside the West London Museum. No one is hurt, but the museum's priceless collection of furniture can't be saved, and damage to the historic house is...
5) Hands down
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"Sid Halley, a private investigator, has a new left hand, having had a transplant since his last appearance in Refusal. After receiving death threats, an ex-jockey trainer friend calls Sid to ask for his help, but Sid has his own problems to deal with; like recovering from surgery and saving his crumbling marriage. When his friend's stable yard is torched, horses killed, and the friend is found dead, Sid can only blame himself for not helping sooner....
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The Heat is On
For rock and roll writer Mick Sever, another story, another deadly island paradise is all in a day's work. This time, Mick heads to Nassau, Bahamas, home of the legendary Highland Studio. Known for pumping out hits that burn up the charts, Highland is where the magic happens-or rather, where the magic happened until a devastating fire destroyed the entire studio. No one knows how the fire started, who started it-or whose body was found...
7) White fire
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Special agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protegee, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law. His sudden appearance coincides with the first attack of a murderous arsonist who begins burning down multimillion dollar mansions with the families locked inside. After springing Corrie from jail, Pendergast learns she made a discovery while examining the bones of several miners who were killed 150 years...
8) Dying light
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 2
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English
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Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae's been bumped to the "Screw-up Squad," a team made up of the most worthless or inexperienced members of the homicide department. He'll 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.
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Spenser novels volume 45
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Boston PI Spenser faces a hot case and a personal crisis in the latest adventure in the iconic "New York Times" bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. The fire at a boarded-up Catholic church raged hot and fast, lighting up Boston s South End and killing three firefighters who were trapped in the inferno. A year later, as the city prepares to honor their sacrifice, there are still no answers about how the deadly fire started. Most at the department...
10) Southern fried
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Southern Fried mysteries volume 1
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Avery Andrews returns to her small hometown & quickly picks up a client or two. Immediately, the company building owned by one of her newfound clients is destroyed by arson, & the person whose body is found inside was quite possibly murdered.
11) Scorched grace
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"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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"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 explode like a riff of Black Cat firecrackers, another shot sounds too close for comfort to Theodosia and Drayton. Intrigued but...
13) French roast
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2022.
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Wisconsin coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen helps uncover the truth when a fire tears through her cousin's market and a gruesome discovery is made in the apartment upstairs.
14) The well of ice
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It's December on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal and solicitor Benedicta "Ben" O'Keeffe is working flat out before the Christmas holidays. While on a trip to Dublin to visit her parents, she runs into Luke Kirby, the man who killed her sister, freshly released from jail. On the surface he appears remorseful, conciliatory even, but his comment as she walks away makes her realize he is as evil as ever.
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Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 10
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It's Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias--the garden club in little Darling, Alabama--are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn't easy, though, since there's a firebug on the loose in Darling. He--or she!--strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What's more, a dangerous hurricane is poised to hurl itself in Darling's direction, while...
16) Fit to die
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A new ice cream shop has just opened in Quincy's Gap, and James Henry and his supper club friends have become its best customers. But when the shop's proprietor locks horns with the fanatical owner of the Witness to Fitness weight-loss center, sparks fly--literally--and what begins as a case of arson quickly turns into a murder investigation. As the Flab Five try to discover who was behind the foul deed, they find a second body, causing them to wonder...
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Detective Cooper Devereaux thrillers volume 2
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English
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When an arsonist begins setting fires at local schools, exposing a terrible mystery about long-buried bones on one of the sites, police detective Cooper Devereaux struggles to solve the mystery in the face of a blackmailer threatening to expose Cooper's darkest secrets.
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Lucy Stone mysteries volume 3
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The destruction of Tinker's Cove's historic buildings by fire begins to look like arson when Monica Mayes' body is found in her restored cottage after it burns. Restoration carpenter Bill Stone's wife Lucy is determined to find out who murdered Monica. She has to fit her detecting into a busy schedule that includes a new baby, two young daughters, a pre-teen son, a communityHalloween party, a committee to review changes to historic buildings, and...
19) Wind spirit
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 10
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Before the new nuclear power plant can be built, the power company must help the Navajo reclaim a long-unused uranium mine. The plan is to collapse the old shafts and refill the area with new soil, but the first explosions trigger unplanned subsidiary collapses. Ella Clah, attending the dedication and purification ceremony, acts quickly when she sees a young child sliding into the exposed tunnels. She saves his life but is herself trapped underground.
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20) Dead and buried
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Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 12
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As moorland fires sweep across the Peak District national park, hundreds of firefighters and park rangers battle to prevent flames reaching a remote inn, once a famous landmark but now abandoned and boarded up. The blaze is just one of a series of random acts of arson which have destroyed miles of heather moorland--and once the flames have died, a grim surprise awaits DS Ben Cooper and DI Diane Fry: a body--dead for years.
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