Book request: Adult Crime/thriller/mystery.I 'read' this book as an audio book about 5-10 years ago. It was about an arson, the female hero/cop/detective searches for a suspect whose last name is 'White' whose previous actions (possibly he was a serial killer by arson) had left/sent his girlfriend (first name 'Violet') to a mental institution, where the cop(s) go to interview her, and she is able to help them find him.All through the book, the very hot weather is a focus, which leads me to think possibly it is set in Arizona - but any desert states are a possibility. The main character has a boyfriend and keeps a bottle of vodka in her freezer (random detail, but she uses it at least once to cool down) I think she might live in a trailer or mobile home. She is possibly Latino/Hispanic, but her boyfriend is white.Im pretty sure that the author is female and is not a popular name (example: not Patricia Cornwell et al. I'd never hear of her/him before) The cover of the audio book was orange.

Matching book description: A different kind of serial killer is terrorizing the city of Santa Fe. All of the victims have one thing in common: they were violent sex offenders who slipped through the cracks in the justice system, and walked on legal technicalities. Someone has decided to make them pay. Forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange is called upon to help catch the killer, even if she has m A different kind of serial killer is terrorizing the city of Santa Fe. All of the victims have one thing in common: they were violent sex offenders who slipped through the cracks in the justice system, and walked on legal technicalities. Someone has decided to make them pay. Forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange is called upon to help catch the killer, even if she has mixed feelings about the victims. She must uncover the pain of a madman -- pain that has driven him over the edge and into the depths of sadistic retribution.But Sylvia soon draws the attentions of the vigilante, who decides that anyone who tries to stop justice must be dealt with as any other criminal -- with a sentence of death.Includes exciting excerpts from Sarah Lovett's thrillers featuring Dr. Sylvia Strange: "Dangerous Attachments, A Desperate Silence, Dantes' Inferno" and her lastest hardcover, "Dark Alchemy," coming soon from Simon and Schuster ...more