Ashes Never Lie

A fire burns through a Los Angeles home and leaves a body behind. Arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his partner Andrew Walker are called to establish how it started; homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone are called to establish who died and why. The two investigations refuse to stay separate.

What the ashes hold is a set of secrets someone was willing to burn a house down to keep, and both teams are working against the same clock and a crime scene that is destroying itself.

The second Sharpe & Walker novel, and a crossover with Lee Goldberg's Eve Ronin series. It reads on its own, but the Sharpe–Walker partnership picks up from Malibu Burning.