White Fire (Pendergast Book 13)

Special Agent Pendergast investigates a connection between 19th-century bear attacks in a Colorado mining town, a lost Sherlock Holmes story, and a present-day arsonist. In 1876, eleven miners were killed by a rogue grizzly bear in Roaring Fork, a mining camp in the Colorado Rockies. Corrie Swanson arranges to examine the miners' remains and makes a shocking discovery. When town leaders attempt to prevent her from revealing the community's dark past, Special Agent Pendergast of the FBI arrives to help his protege. The town is then attacked by a murderous arsonist who systematically burns multimillion-dollar mansions with families inside. As Pendergast deepens his investigation, he discovers a long-lost Sherlock Holmes story that may hold the key to solving both the historical miners' deaths and the current killings. With the ski resort snowed in and under attack, and Corrie's life in danger, Pendergast must unravel the mystery of the past before the present-day town is destroyed.