arson

An introduction to arson, the fastest growing crime in the United States that provides information on famous cases, motives for the crime, pyromaniacs, and techniques used by arsonists and arson investigators.

Recounts the true story of the 1955 murders of three Chicago boys and the ATF agents who, forty years after the crime was committed, launched their own investigation and tracked down the killer.

Relates how Debora Green, a physician and mother of three, was convicted of poisoning her husband, Michael Farrar, and setting the fire that killed two of their children in 1995.

Suzanna "Zanna" Snow, having just arrived in Boston to visit her family, quickly starts to investigate a case on which her detective uncle is working involving mysterious warehouse fires and begins to think the strange man who is following could be a threat.

Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby determines to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.

Bones Fatzinger, a former police officer, teams up again with Verity Buscador, a clever twelve-year-old with Asperger's syndrome, to investigate a mysterious church fire.

Hally Watkins, her younger brother Jason, and other young people they meet in Newport, Rhode Island, must prove that their friend Tuyet is not responsible for burning down the house she has been hired to paint.

Hindered by a fight with her friend Dub and a series of mysterious fires, eleven-year-old Allie investigates the fire seventeen years earlier which claimed the lives of the husband and infant son of a school cafeteria worker, as well as the handsome young man whose ghost asks Allie for help.