Supper Sleuths

Mysteries on Fire: Arson & Firefighting

Supper Sleuths Discussion takes place May 13, 2008 at 6:00pm to 7:30pm in the Lecture Hall.

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.

Please choose one or more of these titles and come prepared to speak about one of them at the meeting.

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

Taste for Burning (1995)
Flashpoint (1999)
Firestorm (1996)
Trial by Fire (2000)
Scream in Silence (2000)
Ash Child (2002)
The Cat Who Smelled a Rat (2001)
Crossfire (2006)
Candy Apple Dead (2005)
Bowker's Bonfire (1996)
Fourth Angel (2001)
Flashover (2002)
Fireplay (2003)
In a Dark House (1994)
Hayburner (2003)
Last to Leave (2005)
Alpine Recluse (2006)
Hell's Kitchen (2001)
Angel in the Front Room, Devil Out Back (2001)
Shattered Shell (1999)
Incendiary Designs (1998)
Sunset touch (2002)
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)
Vertical Burn (2002)
Pyro (2004)
Chicano Wars (1986)
Playing for the Ashes (1994)
Wildfire (1994)
Fire Angels (2001)
Fyre Mirror (2005)
Arson and Old Lace (2004)
Doohickey (2002)
Pel and the Promised Land (1993)
Beneath the Ashes (2000)
Robak's Cross (1985)
Damsels in Distress (2007)
Flash point (2002)
Salamander (1998)
Firestorm (2004)
Wrong Place, Wrong Time (2006)
Cordelia Squad (2003)
Death of a damn Yankee (1999)
Dream House (2003)
File Under--Arson (1994)
Ashes of Aries (2001)
Last fires burning (2003)
Dying light (2006)
Suspicious Origin (2003)
Home fires (1998)
St. Alban's Fire (2005)
How to Seduce a Ghost (2005)
Trick or Treat Murder (1996)
Liar Liar (2006)
Presumption of death (2003)
Burn marks (1990)
Some by fire (1999)
Point in the Market (2005)
Highgate Rise (1991)
Southern Fried (2004)
Death du jour
Playing with Fire (2004)
Trial by Fire (1996)
Origin & Cause (1994)
Spent Matches (1996)
Weeping (2004)
Tabula Rasa (2005)
Skirt Man (2006)
Taint in the Blood (2004)
Little Town Lies (2005)
Wind Spirit (2004)
Perfect Match (2004)
All Emergencies, Ring Super (1997)
California Life and Fire (1999)

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