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Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 103
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When a fire hits the home of Nancy's neighbors, Nancy investigates whether Paula, a Dutch foreign exchange student staying with them, is somehow connected.
102) Darkman
Pub. Date
1998
Description
A scientist is horribly disfigured when gangsters break in and destroy his laboratory. After being burned beyond recognition and altered by an experimental medical procedure, he is reborn as Darkman and seeks revenge on the criminals who were responsible.
103) Fire color one
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Following her fortune-hunting mother's plan, a teenaged arsonist meets her wealthy, dying father, the owner of a priceless art collection, only to discover that the stories she has been told about him all her life might not have been true.
105) Smoke
Author
Pub. Date
[2015].
Description
An evocative tale of two women navigating the secrets and lies at the heart of a wildfire threatening their town. After a decade long career combating wildfires, Elizabeth has traded in her former life for a quieter one with her husband. Now she works as the local arson investigator in a beautiful, quaint town in the Rockies. But that tranquil life vanishes when she and her husband agree to divorce and a fire in nearby Cooper Basin begins to spread...
Author
Series
Paul McGrath novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"As an intelligence agent-turned-courthouse janitor, Paul McGrath notices everything and everyone--but no one notices him. It's the perfect cover for the justice he seeks for both his father and the people who've been wronged by a corrupt system. Now McGrath has discovered a missing file on Alex Pardew--the man who defrauded and likely murdered his father but avoided conviction, thanks in large part to the loss of this very file. And what lies behind...
108) Home fires
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
North Carolina judge Deborah Knott investigates the burning of four black churches. Suspects include one of her nephews and to clear his name she must find the real arsonists. By the author of Up Jumps the Devil.
109) Suspicious origin
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Britt Andersen finds herself playing Nancy Drew after Greta, her estranged older sister, perishes in a fire that also almost claims the life of her 11-year-old niece, Zoe. Remorseful at having lost her chance at reconciliation, Britt leaves Boston, where she produces a late-night news talk show, for the rural Vermont community where her sister lived and died. Her intended short stay for the funeral is extended both by unexpected feelings of connection...
110) After the Fire
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
"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...
111) The dark vineyard
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Description
Benoit (Bruno) Courreges - devoted friend, cuisinier extraordinaire and the town's only municipal policeman - rushes to the scene when a research station for genetically modified crops is burned down outside Saint-Denis. Bruno immediately suspects a group of fervent environmentalists who live nearby, but the fire is only the first in a string of mysteries centering on the regions's fertile soil.
112) The perfect match
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Ellie Karlson shocks residents of Deep Haven-including Pastor Dan Matthews, a volunteer firefighter-when she becomes interim fire chief. As Dan and Ellie work together to solve a string of mysterious arson fires, their mutual love and respect for each other builds.
Author
Series
Love walked in volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle of friends for whom she would do anything. Because of one terrible night, she loses them all, and her adventurous spirit, seemingly forever. While the town cheers on the high school football team, someone sets the school's auditorium ablaze. Ginny's best friend Gray Marsden's father, a fire fighter, dies in the blaze. While many in the town believe a notoriously...
114) Trial by fire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Riley Donovan is the new kid in town. When her next-door neighbor's barn catches on fire, with him inside it, Riley helps save him. But rather than being hailed a hero, Riley finds herself a target of harassment. When her neighbor is accused of starting the fire, Riley believes he is innocent and is determined to prove it--even if it means making powerful enemies."--
115) A man of his word
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
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.
116) Gray as ashes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Martinsville Georgia has always been a sleepy little town, where nothing much ever happens, except a few murders... There's a firebug in Martinsville. Town librarian Biscuit McKee isn't too worried when a garbage bin at the grocery store is set on fire. But when it's her beloved garden shed that goes up in flames, the fur begins to fly. Biscuit's feline companion Marmalade comments frequently, ... Yes, I do. ... (even though her humans think she's...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"'What if a wheezing, sneezing, allegedly house-trained, ticking time bomb of an orphan pug is the key to helping a family feel at home again, after an arsonist set their house--and life--on fire? If you asked me, I would have said it's a bad idea; we can do better. Unfortunately no one asked me, and The Pug List is my family's story. In the fire's aftermath of insurance battles royal, rebuilding plans, parenting in the face of life's hard questions...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"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"--
119) Backdraft 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
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. Sean must use his intuition, along with the help of infamous jailed arsonist Ronald Bartel, in a race to find out who is behind the fire and stop them from accomplishing...