Night on Fire

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fire crawls up the sides of the church. The orange glow thrashes. Blackens the siding. Climbs up onto the steeple. The flames close in on the wedding party trapped inside.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When a serial arsonist terrorizes Los Angeles County FBI profiler </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Violet Darger</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> heads to California to investigate. The fires keep coming faster. The body count rises and the threat hangs over the city as thick as the smog.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The case file is brutal -- stuffed with photographs of charred bodies human faces melted beyond recognition. And when Darger gets up close to the crimes the real thing that sense of savagery only intensifies.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What kind of a person could carry out such cruelties? Understanding the warped psychology will be the key to solving the case.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The suspect seems hellbent on creating a spectacle. Bigger targets. More deaths. He treats setting fires like a Hollywood special effects sequence like he's building up to the shocking finale.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Watch the city burn. It's entertainment.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And there's one more factor complicating the investigation: Autumn is settling in over Southern California. The leaves are changing color and the Santa Ana winds have begun to change directions. The Hollywood Hills are ripe for a forest fire. The arsonist means to make it the biggest one yet.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A page-turner packed with heart-stopping suspense. Fans of John Sandford Michael Connelly Lisa Regan and Lisa Gardner should check out the Violet Darger series.</strong></p>