num_pages: 447
description: FIRE--It consumes futures and pasts in a terrified heartbeat, devouring damning secrets while leaving even greater mysteries in the ashes.The night sky is ablaze as flames engulf two barges moored side by side on an otherwise empty canal. On board are the blackened remains of two human beings. To the seasoned eye, this horror was no accident, the method so cruel and calculated that only the worst sort of fiend could have committed it. There are shocking secrets to be uncovered in the charred wreckage, grim evidence of lethal greed and twisted hunger, and of nightmare occurrences within the private confines of family. A terrible feeling is driving police inspector Alan Banks in his desperate hunt for answers--an unshakable fear that this killer's work will not be done until Banks's own world is burned to the ground.
language: English
title: Playing with Fire
titlecomplete: Playing with Fire (Inspector Banks, #14)
characters: Brian Banks, Ken Blackstone, Graham Marshall, Annie Cabbot, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, Superintendent Gristhorpe, Ron McLaughlin
genres: Fiction, Crime, Banks, British Literature, Suspense, Thriller, Canada, Detective, Mystery, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 6318
places: United Kingdom
series: Inspector Banks
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Hammett Prize
publisher: Pan MacMillan