Martha C. Lawrence Book order (chronological)

When Matthew Fielding, the four-year-old son of a San Diego telecommunications mogul, turns up missing, the psychic skills of P.I. Elizabeth Chase are requested. The stakes are raised soon after Elizabeth begins her investigation when a wildfire breaks out in Rancho Santa Fe, the secluded community where Matthew and his family-and Elizabeth's own parents-live. Aided and abetted by the Santa Ana winds, flames rage out of control, consuming thousands of acres and dozens of homes. Before the ashes can be cleared away, another fire blazes through everything in its path. Are the kidnapper and arsonist one and the same? Will Elizabeth be able to find the clues she needs in the dying embers around her? It's a race against time itself as man and nature combine to wreak destruction on Elizabeth's community and keep a little boy lost forever. In the fifth installment of a series Sue Grafton referred to as "a natural...and a supernatural as well," Martha C. Lawrence once again combines the quirky and the familiar as her smart, resilient and endearing heroine uses her psychic ability and incomparable detecting skills to hunt down a killer.

Dr. Elisabeth Chase, promovierte Parapsychologin mit übernatürlichen Fähigkeiten, stellt ihr hellseherisches Können ganz in den Dienst der Polizei, um einen mysteriösen Verkehrsunfall aufzuklären, bei dem eine junge Frau getötet wurde.

Now Elizabeth Chase returns in a case more dangerous than ever: An increasingly violent rapist has been terrorizing San Diego, but the lack of physical evidence at the scenes gives the police very little to go on. Skeptical but desper­ate as the rapist edges ever closer, the cops turn to Elizabeth for paranormal assistance. Her first step is to hypnotize the victims, hoping to unearth clues buried in their subconscious memories.But when her interpretations have devas­tating results, she tries to back off the case—only to find herself drawing nearer and nearer to the deadly conclusion."Martha Lawrence's parapsychologist detective cast a spell on me: I couldn't put the novel down." —Linda Barnes, author of Hardware