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Hell's Kitchen (2001)
Jeffery Deaver Writing as William Jefferies
Every New York City neighborhood has a story, but what John Pellam uncovers in Hell's Kitchen has a darkness all its own. The Hollywood location scout and former stuntman is in the Big Apple hoping to
capture the unvarnished memories of longtime Kitchen residents such as Ettie Washington in a no-budget documentary film. But when a suspicious fire ravages the elderly woman's crumbling tenement, Pellam
realizes that someone might want the past to stay buried.
As more buildings and lives go up in flames, Pellam takes to the streets, seeking the twisted pyromaniac who sells services to the
highest bidder. But Pellam is unaware that the fires are merely flickering preludes to the arsonist's ultimate masterpiece, a conflagration of nearly unimaginable proportion, with Hell's Kitchen — and
John Pellam — at its blackened and searing epicenter
Reviews:
"...finely crafted book...In Hell's Kitchen, every character has a hidden agenda that is only revealed at the
exciting climax." – Book Magazine
"Edgar Award-nominated Deaver exposes the brutal side of the Big Apple..." – Publishers Weekly
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