<p><strong><em>Detective Paddy Durr</em></strong> is back in <strong><em>Burnt to a Crisp</em></strong><em>, </em>Michael O'Keefe's third installment in the <strong>Durr series</strong>. This time out, life hasn't gotten any easier for Paddy and his heroic wife, <strong><em>Mairead</em>.</strong> She is near death from<strong> <em>9/11 cancers</em></strong>, contracted from her time volunteering at Ground Zero after the attacks nineteen years earlier. Paddy is distraught, operating under the prospect of losing her. </p><p> An enemy from within the<em> </em><strong><em>NYPD</em> </strong>has bared her fangs and is coming after his job. <strong><em>Dr. Deborah Levine</em></strong> is a department psychiatrist out to get Paddy's guns taken away, in retribution for scorning her sexual advances a year before. She tried then without success, but this time she has the power of the <strong><em>corrupt mayor</em></strong> and his <strong><em>insidious wife's</em></strong> backing.</p><p> Through all of this, Paddy has just caught an <strong><em>Arson/Triple Homicide</em></strong> that no one but him and his partner seem to want solved. A <strong><em>drug lord </em></strong>from the neighborhood has placed an embargo on the witnesses, refusing to let them tell Durr what he already knows. He has a suspect and a motive, but only reluctant witnesses. Forensic evidence is at a premium, but when fire is a killer's<em> modus operandi</em>, there is little left that didn't burn away in the flames.</p><p> With cancer destroying his personal life, and a vindictive doctor trying to end his career, the clock is ticking. Durr will need a miracle to save his wife and career, and some luck and old-school detective work to solve his case and give his<strong><em> innocent victims justice</em></strong>. But time isn't on Paddy's side, and he has learned not to expect a miracle from a God he is sure has forsaken him.</p><p> It's no wonder Durr is <strong><em>Burnt to a Crisp</em></strong>.</p><p><br></p><p> </p>