Roast Mortem

Summary

When thefirefighters of Ladder Company 189 pull Clare’s friends out of a blazing café,she happily comes to their rescue. As a favor to the men, she visits theirfirehouse kitchen to teach them the finer points of operating their newlydonated espresso machine. But more than their coffee turns out to be hot.Somebody’s torching cafés around the city, and firefighters are beginning todie in suspicious ways.

Believingthe two events are related, Clare investigates, staking out a five-borough bakesale and sniffing out clues in the pizza joints of Brooklyn. When her detectiveboyfriend, Mike Quinn, is pulled into the fire of a false accusation, Clare isdesperate to put out the flames. But will she be able to come to Mike’s rescuebefore someone tries to extinguish her?