FLAMESCAPE

Flamescape ($25.00; Dec.; 224 pp.; 0-7278-5501-8): In another break from his long-running series of Highlands tales of hunting, fishing, and murder (Bloodlines, 1998, etc.), Hammond unfolds the more urgent story of Jenny Ambleton, a budding photographer whose pictures of the house fire that killed David Oliver’s inconvenient wife have attracted the interest of the constabulary—and of the firebug determined to get Jenny’s negatives.