Showing results for "Fire" in Police Procedurals

The Fens are burning, and Detective Nikki Galena faces a cat-and-mouse battle with a killer arsonist. Someone is lighting fires. First they target homes and businesses, but then a body is found at one of the crime scenes. More fires are lit. And at each one a single person dies. But the victims have led spotless lives, and apparently there's no connection between them. Meanwhile, the town is facing a very peculiar threat from a group of sinister Satanists led by a charismatic businessman. Who is burning with anger, and can Nikki stop them before anyone else dies? 

With Christmas on the horizon, they call OSBI agents Carrie Border and Lainey Tate to a case in Southeastern Oklahoma. The area is home to the legendary Robber's Cave in the center of dense forest, cliffs, and mountains. Local law enforcement have found three burned bodies and turn to the OSBI for help in finding the killer. Carrie and Lainey fall into false leads and backwoods locals who do not want their nefarious crimes revealed.

*********************** The second book in the Millennium series featuring Lisbeth Salander - the global publishing phenomenon Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander's prints are on the...

Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, J.J. Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before - the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. 

A woman's death sees rumours flood the island community – as Inspector Jimmy Perez's life is about to change forever. Wild Fire is the eighth Shetland mystery from Ann Cleeves. A new English family have moved to Shetland, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young...

DC Scott Cullen isn’t so much disillusioned with the police force but his insufferable boss, DI Bain, and the way he constantly sidelines Cullen, hampering his ability to solve cases. Is it personal? When the owner of Dunpender Distillery near Dalkeith opens a cask of whisky for a special edition, he finds more than a single malt – the barrel contains the body of a man, mangled and unidentifiable.

When DI Barton is asked to investigate a seemingly innocuous fire that kills, he believes it's either children fooling around or a worrying racially motivated crime. As he delves deeper into the case, he soon realises that there is a history of similar blazes spread out over many years, all within a close area. An idea suggested by pathologist Mortis makes Barton suspect he has the arsonist’s motives wrong.

Robert Beatty stars as Quentin Barnaby: Fire Investigator in Philip Levene’s gripping 1960s crime series A prolific writer for radio and TV, Philip Levene scripted numerous crime dramas and serials for the BBC in the 1960s. One of the most popular was Destination – Fire!, inspired by his...

Detective Greg Geldard is finally settling into life in the Norfolk Broads, a place he wants to call home. But the silent waterways are deceptive. And amongst the brooding marshes, a deadly plot is in motion. Detective Geldard is wolfing down a quick sandwich lunch at his desk when he gets the call. There's been a devastating explosion at the local Science Park. Multiple casualties. Geldard races to the scene — it's carnage. Body parts lie scattered on the ground. Seven people dead. Sixteen unaccounted for. Professor Lai, Head of Chemistry, is one of the missing.

'Did I read this in a day? Yes, yes I did!... It was fantastic. Literally could not put it down... Fast-paced, brilliant characters... Completely loved it... M.J. Arlidge is a genius.' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nowhere to hide. No one to turn to. Nothing to lose. Helen Grace is sure she...

A police detective in Hong Kong races to solve a vicious murder, while the city around him teeters on the brink of destruction. Hong Kong is a city ablaze—its streets filled with protesters, its government in crisis, its people torn between rage and fear of what defiance might cost. At the...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a new twisty, unputdownable thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. **EVIL BONES, THE THRILLING NEW KATHY REICHS NOVEL, IS OUT NOW** It’s never easy working fire scenes. Called to Washington, DC to analyse...

Brought to you by Penguin. Commissario Guido Brunetti returns with a gripping and powerful case about the murkiness of power and a test of loyalties When two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice’s campi, the son of a local hero is implicated. But when...

When terrorists use a drone to bring down a plane on one of London’s busiest shopping centres, it ignites a chain of events that will draw in the innocent and the guilty alike. DC Max Wolfe finds himself caught in the crossfire between a tech-savvy terrorist cell and a revenge-seeking, Bible-quoting murderer called Bad Moses.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.' LEE CHILD 'Alex Cross is a legend.' HARLAN COBEN _________________________________________ A sniper has Washington's corrupt elite in...

Jamie Worth, a newly qualified firearms officer, is called to a domestic disturbance. Events get out of hand, and he shoots and kills a teenaged girl who appears to have been unarmed. Already wracked with guilt, he is horrified when, with the media baying for blood, he is accused of murder. How can a police officer survive when he suddenly finds himself in prison and on the wrong side of the law? And how can his wife Cath and his ex Anna ever come to terms with what has happened?

PRAISE FOR G. D. WRIGHT 'So compelling and tightly plotted I couldn't put it down' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'Tense and emotional… A dark beating heart of a novel' GILLIAN McALLISTER ‘One of the most tense and gripping thrillers I've read in ages’ LISA JEWELL 'Reminded me of Broadchurch… An...

Brought to you by Penguin. Arson, accident or murder? After a fire rips through a North London tower block, two bodies are found locked in an eleventh-floor flat. But it is the third victim - the MP Geoff Armstrong - that requires the presence of detective Maeve Kerrigan and the murder squad. It...

Jack Wade, a claims adjuster for California Fire and Life Mutual Insurance Company, is one of the best arson investigators around. He's a man who knows fire, who can read the traces it leaves behind like a roadmap. When he's called in to examine an unusual claim, the tracks of the fire tell him...

If you want to start a new crime series, make it this one. It's one of the best I've ever read' - Amazon reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ---------- Pressure rises as a missing person's case has deadly crime gang connections... A fatal fire in a holiday let on Slievemore, Achill Island, leaves one...