Fire Cops: On the Case with America's Arson Investigators

by Michael Sasser

Presents some of the toughest cases faced by today's arson investigators, from the big cities to dense forests to disasters at sea, in a collection that profiles the acts of scheming profiteers, vicious vandals, and diabolical pyromaniacs. Original.

288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Mountain343 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honestly didn't care for it. No real problems with the way it was written, but more of a failure in regards to the approach to the subject matter. Instead of focusing on interesting cases that were primarily arson, and involved arson investigation techniques to solve, it was more just random cases that involved fire, but were solved using anything but evidence collected via any arson investigation methods. They highlighted historical fires where witnesses spotted the person who did it, or often they'd just follow basic evidence of family ties and the person would confess. Only the Florida case has anything interesting to it that wouldn't be in just any standard homicide detective book. Very disappointing.