The Burning Rooms (Tallman's Valley Detectives Book 4)

A serial arsonist with a burning desire

In a country town, a serial arsonist is burning homes down. Their signature move is to place an identical model house on the front porch before they start the blaze. But no one is there to witness this in the silence of each dark winter night.

Javier and Nicole Garcia are celebrating their anniversary at a restaurant when they receive a chilling phone call – a recorded children's verse warning them their house is on fire and their children gone. They race home to an inferno and missing children, unaware the blaze is about to take their lives.

Detective Jace Franco is first on the scene and is confronted by something that will haunt him – a matching model house on the front porch. He sighted exactly the same thing thirteen years ago, at a house fire that claimed the lives of a whole family.

Franco's team and superiors think he's close to a psychotic break as he launches a relentless investigation. The fire has been judged accidental and the Garcia couple were Franco's good friends.

There is just one other person who saw what Franco did at the house fire of thirteen years ago – his former homicide partner, Kate Wakeland.

Can he convince her to return for this one last case?

(This story happens 3 ½ years after the last Tallman's Valley book, The Silent Town..)