Burn Away: An Adam Dutton & Beverly Laborde Mystery

If you play with fire, you get murder...

When a series of arsons target Vermont antiques stores, Detective Adam Dutton and con-woman Beverly Laborde worry that a shop owned by their friend, Harlan, might be next. But the stakes take an even deeper and uglier turn after a body is found inside one of the burned buildings. Was it an accident, suicide ... or murder?

Adam and Beverly hoped they'd seen the last of a crime syndicate operating under the guise of the Northern Antiquities League and that they could finally put those dark memories behind them. But do the arsons signal the last gasp of the NAL? Or is a new mob threat rising from the ashes?

With the help of the mysterious and resourceful "Mr. X," Adam and Beverly race to get to the bottom of the fires and the victim's puzzling death before any more lives are lost ... including their own.

BV LAWSON's fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and honored by Derringer, Golden Fedora, and Gemini Magazine Awards, and she was also a contributor to the Anthony Award-winning Blood on the Bayou. BV's Scott Drayco crime novels have also been named Best Mystery in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, chosen as a Featured Library Journal Pick, and been a finalist for Shamus, Silver Falchion, and Daphne Awards. BV lives in Virginia with her husband and enjoys flying above the Chesapeake Bay in a little Cessna. Visit her website at bvlawson.com. No ticket required.