Boldt / Matthews #4
Hyperion
August 1998
On Sale: August 3, 1998
Featuring: Daphne Matthews; Lou Boldt
656 pages ISBN: 0786889284 EAN: 9780786889280 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
Fire is a vicious and greedy killer. It consumes not only
its victims, but nearly all evidence of its creator-
carried aloft in a column of smoke and ash. Beyond
recognition. There is a homicidal arsonist loose in
Seattle. Single mothers are being killed in fires that
burn hotter than experts have ever seen. The children are
spared. Why?
For Seattle Police Sergeant Lou Boldt and the department’s
psychologist, Daphne Matthews, the High Temperature
Accelerant fires challenge their every resource. The fuel
used in these deadly fires is as much a mystery as the
identity of the arsonist who sets them.
A Seattle fire marshal reveals to Lou Boldt the ominous
quotations sent to him before each of the fires. A twelve-
year-old boy, caught in an ugly battle at home,
unintentionally witnesses a drug deal that may not involve
drugs at all, but ingredients far more volatile and
lethal. Did the boy, in fact, see the arsonist’s face? Can
police rely on a twelve-year-old boy as a witness? Or is
the fire marshal, his past suddenly in question, more
involved than he wants to believe?