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41) Fire storm
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When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, FBI profiler Kaely Quinn 'takes time off work to go to Dark Water, Nebraska. The area has been hit by a series of fires, attributed by the fire chief to misuse of space heaters in the frigid winter. Kaely's search for a pattern in the locations of the fires lead her to suspect arson. Calling upon her partner from St. Louis, Noah Hunter, and a firefighter neighbor, Kaely and her team begin an investigation...
42) Easy pickings
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After her husband dies, her son is killed and her house is burned to the ground, mine owner March McPhee, targeted by the wealthy and powerful, fights back with the help of a saloon man, an assayer and a slippery lawyer, but wonders if wealth of any sort should be defended at such a price.
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When David approaches his New Hampshire cabin one cool October night to find it engulfed in flames, he knows his girlfriend Hope set the fire. At least, he's pretty sure he knows. David first decides to upend the creature comforts of his post-collegiate life and try roughing it for a year after he inherits two acres of land and a rustic cabin from his deceased grandfather. Life at the cabin proves to be more difficult than expected, however, and...
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An ambitious firefighter hunts a notorious arsonist in the Edgar Award–winning true crime story the New York Times calls "stranger than fiction." From Joseph Wambaugh, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary story of the chase for the "Pillow Pyro," called the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century. Growing up in Los Angeles, John Orr idolized...
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Classic diner novels volume 7
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Moose and Victoria attempt to solve the mystery after Barry Jackson's bakery is burned to the ground, with the baker still inside.
46) Scorched eggs
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"In Laura Childs's New York Times bestselling mystery series, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni--co-owners of the Cackleberry Club Caf�e 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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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 8
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Carlotta Carlyle, Boston's favorite redheaded, wisecracking P.I., is back in a taut new mystery that begins with a seemingly innocent tenant-landlord dispute--and quickly escalates to arson, intrigue, and murder.
48) 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....
49) The witnesses
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Lancaster burning volume 3
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"Fires have destroyed two more nearby Amish barns, and many of the farmers are ready to ask for police protection, an unheard of action. Davey Beiler, the leader of the local Amish community, counsels against this, but then his beloved daughter, Sarah, is caught in the flames and severely injured"--
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Harlem trilogy (Colson Whitehead) volume 2
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It s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It s strictly the straight-and-narrow for him until he needs...
51) Count to ten
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Romantic suspense volume 6
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In all his years in the Chicago fire department, Lieutenant Reed Solliday AHS never experienced anything like this recent outbreak of house fires, devastating, vicious and in one case, homicidal. He has another problem, his new partner, Detective Mia Mitchell. She's brash, bossy, and taking the case in a direction he never imagined.
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Sally Montgomery anticipated a romantic weekend getaway. What she got instead was a nightmare of unrelenting terror. The murder of her companion and the torching of their cabin sends Sally into hiding-from the police, who believe she's a suspect . . . and from the killer, who wants her dead.
Desperate and alone in the woods, Sally has nowhere to run and nowhere to turn-except to her ex-husband, former NYPD detective-turned-private investigator Pete...
54) Crisis
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Dick Francis novels volume 8
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"Harrison Foster, a crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses, including the short-priced favorite for the Derby. There is far more to the "simple" fire than initially meets the eye...for a start, human remains are found among the equestrian ones in the burnt-out shell. All the stable staff are accounted for, so who is the mystery victim? Harry knows very little about...
55) Trial by fire
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Newpointe 911 volume 4
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Pastor and fireman Nick Foster found the body in the inferno engulfing his church. From the bullet wound in the head, it's clear this is no ordinary fire victim. The quiet community of Newpointe, reeling from the shock of the dead man's identity, struggles with the agonizing question: who did it-and why? Paramedic Issie Mattreaux is no icon of virtue, but she cares enough about her teenage nephew, Jake, to track him down when he turns up missing....
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Booklover Sadie Coleman knows that in life, as in fiction, the right setting can make a world of difference. The small town of Shady Creek, Vermont, seems like the perfect place to start over after losing her Boston job to a merger and her relationship to her ex's gambling addiction. She's bought and redecorated the old grist mill pub, transforming the Inkwell into a cozy spot where tourists and regulars alike can enjoy a pint or a literary-themed...
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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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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 7
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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An anonymous diary is a mystery with handwriting that is difficult to decipher. It is filled with technical drawings and chemical formulas. Was the destructive explosion an accident or an act of revenge?
59) In a dark house
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Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James mysteries volume 10
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An abandoned Southwark warehouse burns next door to a women's shelter for victims of spousal abuse. Within it lies the charred corpse of a female body burned beyond all recognition. At the same time, workers at Guy's Hospital anxiously discuss the disappearance of a hospital administrator -- a beautiful, emotionally fragile young woman who's vanished without a trace.
And in an old, dark, rambling London house, nine-year-old Harriet's awful fears...
60) Swamp team 3
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"Undercover CIA agent Fortune Redding spent her first three weeks in Sinful, Louisiana dodging insults, makeup advice, guard dogs, bullets and Deputy Carter LeBlanc, both professionally and personally. But just when she thinks things are going to settle down in the small bayou town, someone sets her friend Ally's house on fire."--Back cover.
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