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BURNING OBSESSION The killer loved seeing his victims ablaze, gleefully watching as their bodies were consumed by hungry, merciless flames. Later his pulse would race at the sight of the orange glow in the night sky, and the sounds of the fire engines as they screamed toward the raging infernos he had created. FLAMING DESTRUCTION Chicago coroner Dr. Dean Grant had seen many gruesome things in his time. But nothing had prepared him for the nightmares of smoldering horror that were spread out on the morgue slabs in front of him. The heat was on, and if the brilliant M.E. couldn't uncover the identity of the lunatic responsible, the maniac's fiery reign of terror would continue—and now Grant's name was emblazoned at the top of his death list... (Approximately 80,000 words. This is the third book in the Dean Grant series.) About the Author Robert W. Walker is the author of more than forty thriller and horror novels, including 4 books in the EDGE series and 11 books in the acclaimed INSTINCT series featuring FBI medical examiner Jessica Coran. Praise for Robert W. Walker "Masterful." — Clive Cussler "Ingenious." — San Francisco Examiner "Gruesome." — The Sunday Oklahoman "Frightening." — Midwest Book Review." "Bone-chilling." — Publisher's Weekly "Perfect for Patricia Cornwell fans." — Mystery Scene "Walker is a master at the top of his game." — Jack Kilborn
Author
Aka Geoffrey Caine, Glenn Hale, Evan Kingsbury, Stephen Robertson Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold—the Windy City one and the Southern one—all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
