As the book opens someone is killing well-to-do couples in a most horrifying way, setting fire to their beautiful homes with them trapped inside.

As Lindsay and Rich investigate the serial arsonist they are also given a lead into one of the most watched crimes of the day. A former California governor's son has been missing for three months. As a young child the boy was diagnosed with an untreatable heart condition and was much adored by the Californian public.

A call comes in suggesting that the teenager was last seen entering the home of a prostitute. Lindsay and Rich are both shocked at how easily the young woman confesses that the boy died while they were having sex and she chose to dispose of the body.

Lindsay's friend and member of the Murder Club, Yuki, a district attorney, is assigned the case and is convinced that this will be an open-and-shut case. But when is a case ever as simple as it seems?

Meanwhile things are getting worse in the arson case as the fires occur closer together and seem more personal to Lindsay.

James Patterson never fails to satisfy. I love the short chapters that lead the books at such a breakneck speed. I gladly read anything he has written and 7th Heaven was no exception.