Frank Carlson Library

They're out to stop a deadly arsonist...and find that passion burns even hotter than revenge.

The Amish community of Lancaster is being terrorized by barn fires. David and Malinda Beile''s barn was the first to go. The clues are sparse, but Levi, the Beilers' oldest son, happened to be awake in the middle of the night and spotted a white vehicle driving past the house with its lights off. Sarah, David and Malinda's daughter, is in her late teens and old enough to observe her parents' agony. Not only is she afraid, too, and wishing she could...

"Inspector Montalbano investigates two puzzling cases: Within days of each other two women whose only link is being bank employees are kidnapped, drugged, and then released unharmed hours later. However a third wakes is found naked with thirty shallow knife wounds. In an arson case, a shop is burned down and its owner has vanished into thin air"--

Backdraft: Two feuding firefighter brothers must set aside their personal differences in order to survive the burning infernos set by a manaical arsonist. Backdraft 2: When fire investigator Sean McCaffrey is assigned to investigate a deadly fire, he and partner Maggie soon realize that they are dealing with something much more than a routine fire. The clues they discover lead them down a treacherous path of arson, murder, and international terrorism....

Hindered by a fight with her friend Dub and a series of mysterious fires, eleven-year-old Allie investigates the fire seventeen years earlier which claimed the lives of the husband and infant son of a school cafeteria worker, as well as the handsome young man whose ghost asks Allie for help.

Mary discovers a manuscript in a old desk that is a confession to arson. She investigates whether the wrong person went to prison.

"The seaside town is getting in tune for Harvest Quest, their annual economy boosting scavenger hunt. A fire breaks out at the Oceanview Hotel and arson is suspected. Soon the event hits another harsh cord. This time among the historical society ladies about a purported winner, who claims that an ornate table is actually the antique piano on his scavenger hunt checklist. Soon it is found that this puzzling piano plays a key part in a local resident's...

Ever since Jessop Norton came into her life he has been a thorn in the side of Sofia Parker and her family. Norton is a city councilman in Sofia's hometown of Cabot Falls, Vermont, a small business owner and the Parkers' next door neighbor. First the municipal curmudgeon seeks a court injunction to stop their sons, Luke and Matthew, from building a tree house in their backyard but then things really get ugly. A fire during the town's Founder's Day...