Some people just can’t stay out of trouble. Only a month after he tangled with a decades-old murder in Tahoe Deathfall (p. 773), Lake Tahoe detective Owen McKenna is back to battle a murderous arsonist who first sets a fire that nearly claims Owen’s home, and then—once Owen’s been hired to investigate—kidnaps his ladylove, forensic entomologist Street Casey, and feeling Owen’s breath on his neck, taunts him about the blaze he’s about to set, destroying hundreds of houses, one of them Street’s prison.