Free (Kindle/iTunes) Dirty Fire [Disgraced Ex-Cop vs Art Theft Conspiracy Thriller]

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Dirty Fire by former journalist and radio talk show host Earl Merkel (Wikipedia) is his standalone action suspense thriller, involving a disgraced former police detective given a second chance by investigating for the Chicago fire department, only to uncover a generations-long criminal conspiracy revolving around stolen art, free courtesy of publisher Diversion Books, who are e-printing it from its 2003 Signet/New American Library edition.

According to Wikipedia, this was a Barnes & Noble National Bestseller back in the day.

Currently free @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK) & iTunes (available to Canadians).

Description
Police detective John Davey once had everything—until bribery charges destroyed his career, his marriage, and his life.

Now he's been given a second chance. Davey is pressured into joining an investigation into the baffling murder of a wealthy Chicago couple savagely murdered before their North Shore mansion was set ablaze. To the city, it's a scandal. To Davey, it's overkill.

In the charred ruins, Davey finds clues to something more sinister than deadly premediated arson: a criminal maze threading back through history, and a connection to billions of dollars in artwork that disappeared during the Holocaust. As more victims emerge, Davey begins to suspect the motives of those he is forced to trust, with betrayal layered on betrayal, until he has no one left to believe in but himself.