Silent Scream by Karen Rose. 573 p.
I enjoy Rose's thrillers. She gives enough details about her bad guys to be interesting but not enough that I feel trapped inside a psychopath's head wallowing around in icky stuff. In this book her female lead is a homicide cop and her male lead is a firefighter; some of the murders involve arson. There's a lot of police procedural here, spiced with a romance, as opposed to Roberts' The Search, which is primarily a romance spiced with a serial killer. I thought the motivations that keep Olivia & David apart to start with were kind of lame, but not so much that I didn't enjoy the book. The murders get quite complicated, and there's a big list of characters, but (of course) things mostly work out in the end. Although it did bug me that there was one loose end the investigators keep mentioning--"oh hey, we need to follow up on that"--and they never do, until the explanation just falls in their laps.
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