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Sister Holiday novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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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...
2) The arsonist
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"Troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for 15 years, Frankie Rowley has come home--home to the small New Hampshire town of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered. On her first night back, a house up the road burns to the ground. Is it an accident, or arson? Over the weeks that follow, as Frankie comes to recognize her father's slow failing and her mother's desperation, another house burns,...
4) Texas! Lucky
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The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown's beloved Texas! trilogy introduces readers to a close-knit family struggling to go on without its patriarch--and to a man in pursuit of an elusive woman who may hold his future in her hands. Charismatic and easy on the eyes, Lucky Tyler is a born rebel. His romantic conquests have earned him his nickname, while his temper gives him his reputation as the family hothead. One night,...
5) Darkman
Series
Darkman volume 1
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
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.
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The Esperanza Fire started October 26, 2006, in the San Jacinto Mountains above the Banning Pass near Cabazon, California. It destroyed 41,000 acres and dozens of homes and cost the taxpayers $16 million dollars. But by far the highest costs of the conflagration were the lives of the five-man crew of Engine 57, the first engine crew ever killed fighting a wildland blaze. Fire and superheated gases had erupted in a freak area ignition, sending flames...
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Charmed Pie Shoppe mysteries volume 3
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English
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Her Charmed Pie Shoppe is open for business, but baker Ella Mae LeFaye is about to discover solving a murder is not as easy as pie?
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Starting a new life on the straight and narrow by buying themselves a shop, the Rynax brothers fall back on their old skills and old friends after the Holver Alley Fire incinerates their plans. They lead their crew of amateurs and washouts to take down those responsible for the fire no matter what the cost.
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[ML&T]
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"It was late evening when the wind over a brush-choked canyon in northern California unexpectedly shifted and roared downhill. The Rattlesnake Fire had been burning since midday on the Mendocino National Forest. The fresh, violent wind picked up embers from the fire and spun them down into the depths of the canyon, blowing into a thunderous torrent of fire. The sight mesmerized veteran firefighters. Long, fatal minutes passed before they remembered...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 2
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English
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California private eye Kinsey Millhone takes on a case where nothing seems to add up--one apartment burgled of worthless papers, another mindlessly ransacked and destroyed, a house destroyed by arson, and a woman brutally slain.
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All the wrong questions volume 3
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English
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Young Lemony Snicket investigates a rash of fires that have plagued the town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea, revealing secrets that involve the Department of Education and the notorious villain Hangfire.
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Soho
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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"Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active must figure out what connects a dead hunter on a remote Arctic lake with a year-old fatal plane crash in the Brooks Range and an arson at the Chukchi Recreation Center. That fire killed eight people, including the police chief and the town's basketball star. Active's investigation leads him to a lucrative polar-bear poaching operation and a brother and sister with an intense bond from a village famous for twins,...
13) Malibu burning
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[2023]
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English
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"Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames. A tsunami of fire is exactly what he needs to pull off a daring crime and avenge a fallen friend. As the most devastating firestorms in Los Angeles's history scorch the hills of Malibu, relentless arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his wild card of...
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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...
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Nancy Drew diaries volume 23
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English
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Nancy and her boyfriend Ned visit Coffin Hall to research the library's rumored ghost, but when a fire breaks out and Ned is blamed, it is up to Nancy to find the true culprit.
16) White fire
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protégée, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law when he uncovers a mysterious connection between long-dead miners and a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes story--one that might just offer the key to an outbreak of modern day killings involving a deadly arsonist.
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"...currently wanted by the police. If you know anything about the suspect's whereabouts, please call..." I look up at the TV screen, and my twin brother's face is splashed across it, life-size. It's a shock that makes my breath catch. This is my brother as an adult, my brother who I last saw fifteen years ago after the fire that killed our parents, covered in soot, clutching a lighter in his hand, his knuckles stark white against the dirt and ash....
19) Skies of ash
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Detective Elouise Norton novels volume 2
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English
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Los Angeles homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton and her partner, Colin Taggert, are called to the scene of a tragic house fire. Juliet Chatman and her two children perished in the blaze. Left behind is grieving husband and father Christopher Chatman, hospitalized after trying to rescue his family. Neighbors and friends insist the Chatmans were living the dream. But Lou quickly discovers that the flames of adultery, jealousy, scandal, fraud, and...
20) 6 Rainier Drive
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Olivia Lockhart-Griffin Cedar Cove, Washington
Dear Reader,
As you may have heard, we've recently had quite a shock. My daughter, Justine, and her husband, Seth, lost their business, The Lighthouse restaurant--to arson. The investigation continues. The prime suspect is a young ex-employee named Anson Butler, who disappeared right after the fire.
So Justine and Seth are trying to make plans and sort out their future.
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