Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva

The first book in the Liam Mulligan series (currently 3 books in the series) is enjoyable on par with the second. I look forward to hearing the 3rd. PW Liam Mulligan is as old school as a newspaper man gets. His beat is Providence, Rhode Island, and he knows every street and alley. He knows the priests and prostitutes, the cops and street thugs. He knows the mobsters and politicians--who are pretty much one and the same. Someone is systematically burning down the neighborhood Mulligan grew up in, people he knows and loves are perishing in the flames, and the public is on the verge of panic.