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141) Tahoe blowup
Author
Series
Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Thriller Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"On a cold November night in 1994, a farmhouse burns to the ground. Inside, a young woman is found dead--murdered. To the people in the rural community of Marbäck, it becomes a reference point: a before and after. For ten-year-old Isak Nyqvist, the fire sets in motion something he cannot control, as if a stray spark has found its way inside him, igniting his future into an inferno. The police quickly focus their attention on Edvard Christensson,...
144) Ashes of Aries
Author
Series
Elizabeth Chase mysteries volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
145) Firehorse
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010], c2006
Language
English
Formats
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
146) Bitter harvest
Author
Publisher
Pocket Star Book
Pub. Date
[1999], c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Gifted with a brilliant mind, blessed with a beautiful family- and cursed with a destructive madness. In this harrowing New York Times bestseller, Ann Rule is at her masterful best as she winnows horrific truths from the ashes of what seemed like paradise in Prairie Village, Kansas. Rule probes the case of Debora Green,a doctor and a loving mother who seemed to epitomize the dreams of the American heartland. A small-town girl with a genius IQ, she...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Examines the case of Jo Ann Parks, the sole survivor and eyewitness of a Los Angeles apartment fire in which her three young children perished. Parks was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole based on forensic fire science that is now being challenged by the California Innocence Project, which contends tunnel vision and outright bias not only led to life in prison for an innocent mother, but convicted her of a crime that never actually...
148) Getting burned
Author
Series
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 21
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The bad news is that the animal shelter just burned down. This means a big case for Nancy Drew because she doesn't believe that it was the result of bad wiring. The good news is that Nancy Drew and her friends are working on a concert to raise funds for a new shelter
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ireland. AD 672. The abbey of Muman at Imleach Iubhair is being renovated when its guests' hostel burns to the ground. There is one fatality: Bishop Brodulf of Luxovium, a distinguished visitor and cousin to the King of Franks. Sister Fidelma is asked by Abbot Cun to investigate the unfortunate incident and soon finds that the bishop had been stabbed to death before the fire had even started. Thrown into a world of treachery and jealousy, where religious...
Author
Series
Nick Drake novel volume 4
Publisher
Jackdaw Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious Native American pleads with Nick Drake to find her missing six-year-old twins. At the same time, an arsonist goes on a rampage. As Nick mounts a desperate search for the children, he is forced to fight fire with fire when the pyromaniac targets the people and land he loves.
151) A burning obsession
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When a series of suspicious fires leaves multiple victims dead in their homes, NYPD hostage negotiator Abby Mullen knows in her bones that the terrors of her childhood have returned. As a young girl, she narrowly escaped a fire set by Moses Wilcox, a fanatical cult leader who's been presumed dead for thirty years. These murders have his fingerprints all over them. Meanwhile, razor-sharp criminal profiler Zoe Bentley is investigating the arsons--but...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted,...
153) A merciful truth
Author
Series
Mercy Kilpatrick volume 2
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Raised by a family of survivalists, FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick can take on any challengeeven the hostile reception to her homecoming. But she's not the only one causing chaos in the rural community of Eagle's Nest, Oregon. At first believed to be teenage pranks, a series of fires takes a deadly turn with the murder of two sheriff's deputies. Now, along with Police Chief Truman Daly, Mercy is on the hunt for an arsonist turned killer. Still shunned...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Nature unleashed : Fire : After a dirt biker is injured, Forest Ranger Jake Langford must lead the rider and his group out of the forest. But a mysterious arsonist sets off fires across the park and the group is trapped. They must pass by an abandoned mine filled with methane gas
Crash landing : A private flight for a billionaire's daughter and her friends becomes a hellish ordeal when the plane is overtaken by a team of terroists, plotting to hold...
155) Into the fire
Author
Publisher
Corgi Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
There is a secret, hidden within a body, burning within the flames, that will change it all. A man's charred corpse is found in the latest of a string of arson attacks in the French city of Orleans. His is the first death. An extremist group claim responsibility but their whereabouts cannot be found. Police inspector Capitaine Ines Picault and her team must track them down before more people die. Their only clue? The name of a woman who has been dead...
Publisher
Distributed by Monterey Media, inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Ab Snopes is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snopes escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The ghost of a girl who recently died in an accident makes contact with her grieving father to help solve a mystery in a remote Australian town, where a girl who speaks entirely in riddles is the only witness to a fatal fire.
Nothing has been the same for Beth Teller since the day she died. Her dad, a detective, was the only one able to see and hear her since the accident, but he is drowning in grief. But why is Isobel Catching able to see Beth,...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation’s debut media circus. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
First biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco
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