American Fire: Love, Arson, And Life In A Vanishing Land, Hesse - C

                                           Notwithstanding a handful of favorable reviews, this book appears to me to be of little redeeming value. For five months, over the winter of 2012-13, Accomack County, Virginia was the site of over seven dozen fires. The fires became the preoccupation of everyone in this dying bit of the rural south on Virginia's eastern shore.  The authorities had hundreds of watchers out every night, and finally, in early April, they saw and caught their witless man and the girlfriend who thought it would be fun. Charlie Smith confessed immediately. Tonya Burdick pleaded guilty after a trial. Both are in the hoosegow.