Title: Incendiary Designs (#3 in the Jack Caleb & John Thinnes series) Author: Michael Allen Dymmoch (pseudonym) Published by: St. Martin's Press, 1998 ISBN: 0-312-19245-2 [hardcover, 296 pages]
Jogging through Lincoln park, Dr. Jack Caleb runs into murder. He comes upon a mob setting a police car on fire -- with the officer inside! Caleb rescues the man, but the cop's partner is found stoned to death. Detective John Thinnes is on the case.Evidence points toward members of a charismatic church as killers, but too many of them die in arson fires before the cops can round them up. And when arson kills the apparent ring leader, it's too much of a coincidence. The remaining cop killers plead guilty; the case seems to be closed. But as Chicago heats up in the deadliest summer on record, it becomes clear that a serial arsonist is still at large.
A physician friend of Caleb's is implicated when some of the fire victims are found to have been drugged. To exonerate his friend, Dr. Caleb sets a trap for the killer, but Thinnes and Caleb are nearly incinerated when the doctor's trap brings the case to a fiery finish.
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