Supper Sleuths

There is something mesmerizing about fires—setting them, watching them, fighting them. This mystery list includes many different cases of arson and many different kinds of detectives. In many cases, arson investigation is done by the fire department in conjunction with the detective or sleuth in the series. In all of the books, firefighting and catching arsonists play a role. Settle down for some blazing, hot, mystery reading in these tales of brave flame fighters.

Series titles in this list are by publication date.

Thank you to Reference Librarian Beth Radcliffe for her work on this list.

Mysteries On Fire: Arson & Firefighting

Bannister, Jo – Liz Graham
• Taste for Burning (1995)

Barnes, Linda – Carlotta Carlyle

• Flashpoint (1999)

Barr, Nevada – Anna Pigeon

• Firestorm (1996)

Blackstock, Terri – Newpointe 911; bk.4

• Trial by Fire (2000)

Bland, Eleanor – Marti MacAlister

• Scream in Silence (2000)

Bowen, Peter – Gabriel Du Pre

• Ash Child (2002)

Braun,Lilian Jackson – Jim Qwilleran

• The Cat Who Smelled a Rat (2001)

Carlson, P.M. – Marty Hopkins

• Crossfire (2006)

Carter, Sammi – Abby Shaw

• Candy Apple Dead (2005)

Caxton, Tony – Denis Bowker

• Bowker’s Bonfire (1996)

Chazin, Suzanne – Georgia Skeehan (Firefighter)

• Fourth Angel (2001)
• Flashover (2002)
• Fireplay (2003)

Crombie, Deborah – Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James

• In a Dark House (1994)

Crum, Laura – Gail McCarthy

• Hayburner (2003)

Curzon, Clare – Mike Yeadings

• Last to Leave (2005)

Daheim, Mary – Emma Lord

• Alpine Recluse (2006)

Deaver, Jeffery (aka William Jeffries) – John Pellam (Location Scout series)

• Hell’s Kitchen (2001)

Diehl, Stanford

• Angel in the Front Room, Devil Out Back (2001)

Dubois, Brendan – Lewis Cole

• Shattered Shell (1999)

Dymmoch, Michael — Jack Caleb & john Thinnes

• Incendiary Designs (1998)

Eccles, Marjorie – Gil Mayo

• Sunset touch (2002)

Emerson, Earl – Mac Fontana (Fire Chief)

• Black Hearts and Slow Dancing (1988)
• Help Wanted: Orphans Preferred (1990)
• Morons and Madmen (1993)
• Going Crazy in Public (1996)
• Dead Horse Paint Company (1997)

Emerson, Earl – Stand Alones

• Vertical Burn (2002)
• Pyro (2004)

Gault, William – Brock Callahan

• Chicano Wars (1986)

George, Elizabeth – Thomas Lynley

• Playing for the Ashes (1994)

Goddard, Kenneth – Henry Lightstone

• Wildfire (1994)

Green, Christine – Thomas Rydell & Denni Caldecote

• Fire Angels (2001)

Harper, Karen – Elizabeth I

• Fyre Mirror (2005)

Harwin, Patricia – Far Wynchwood; bk.1 (Catherine Penny)

• Arson and Old Lace (2004)

Hautman, Pete

• Doohickey (2002)

Hebden, Mark – Inspector Pel

• Pel and the Promised Land (1993)

Henry, Sue – Jess Arnold

• Beneath the Ashes (2000)

Hensley, Joe – Don Robak

• Robak’s Cross (1985)

Hess, Joan – Claire Malloy

• Damsels in Distress (2007)

Jacobs, Nancy Baker – Susan Kim Delancey

• Flash point (2002)

Janes, Robert. Jean-Louis St. Cyr & Hermann Kohler

• Salamander (1998)

Johansen, Iris

• Firestorm (2004)

Kane, Andrea

• Wrong Place, Wrong Time (2006)

Kelly, Mary Anne – Claire Breslinsky

• Cordelia Squad (2003)

Kelner, Toni – Laura Fleming

• Death of a damn Yankee (1999)

Krich, Rochelle – Molly Blume

• Dream House (2003)

Lacey, Sarah – Leah Hunter

• File Under–Arson (1994)

Lawrence, Martha – Elizabeth Chase

• Ashes of Aries (2001)

Lavene, Joyce & Jim – Sharyn Howard

• Last fires burning (2003)

MacBride, Stuart – Logan McRae

• Dying light (2006)

MacDonald, Patricia J.

• Suspicious Origin (2003)

Maron, Margaret -Deborah Knott

• Home fires (1998)

Mayor, Archer – Joe Gunther

• St. Alban’s Fire (2005)

McIntyre, Hope – Lee Bartholomew

• How to Seduce a Ghost (2005)

Meier, Leslie – Lucy Stone

• Trick or Treat Murder (1996)

Nicholson, Deborah – Kate Carpenter

• Liar Liar (2006)

O’Shaughnessy, Perri – Nina Reilly

• Presumption of death (2003)

Paretsky, Sara – V.I.Warshawski

• Burn marks (1990)

Pawson, Stuart – D.I. Charles Priest

• Some by fire (1999)

Pearce, Michael – Gareth Owen & Mamur Zapt

• Point in the Market (2005)

Perry, Anne – Thomas & Charlotte Pitt

• Highgate Rise (1991)

Pickens, Cathy – Avery Andrews; bk.1

• Southern Fried (2004)

Reichs, Kathy – Temperance Brennan

• Death du jour

Robinson, Peter – Alan Banks

• Playing with Fire (2004)

Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor

• Trial by Fire (1996)

Reuben, Shelly – Wylie Nolan & Max Bramble

• Origin & Cause (1994)
• Spent Matches (1996)

Reuben, Shelly – Frittilary Quilter; bk.1

• Weeping (2004)

Reuben, Shelly – Stand Alones

• Tabula Rasa (2005)
• Skirt Man (2006)

Stabenow, Dana – Kate Shugak

• Taint in the Blood (2004)

Strieber, Anne

• Little Town Lies (2005)

Thurlo, Amiee & David – Ella Clah

• Wind Spirit (2004)

Warren, Susan

• Perfect Match (2004)

White, Ellen

• All Emergencies, Ring Super (1997)

Winslow, Don

• California Life and Fire (1999)

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