ISBN: 0972690654

The following review was contributed by: Emily Burson: Click Here To  Read More of Emily's Reviews.

 The Fire Inside…

“Everything Burns” is a classic thriller. It is part action, part suspense, and part romance. Boots Means is an unlikely hero, but one with which the reader can immediately identify. “Everything Burns” takes and intense look at the inside world of arson—the pain, the struggle, and the fascination within each human heart to see something burn. Boots, a freelance journalist and photographer, understands that there is something almost magical about the flames. Drawn to the first fire, he manages to work himself inside, only to be confronted with the darkest and most tragic victim of fire; two small boys.

Concho, Texas, is a sleepy town stuck somewhere between the past and the present. Racial tension and prejudice still are evident. No matter how backwards the town seems to Boots, the crimes being committed are surprisingly modern. Who is starting the fires in Concho? Where has he come from and where is he headed next? Is any structure or person in Concho safe from a menace that even the police force is reluctant to admit exists?

“Everything Burns” is more than just a well-written story; it starts with a spark and quickly explodes into a page turner no reader will want to put down. The lively cast of characters completes a complex story that is somehow still easy to identify with. As Boots and Jackie, his married lover, begin to uncover the secrets of the serial arsonist, the reader will find they are unwilling to put the book away. Instead they will want to keep reading and trying to figure out the clues to the identity of the killer in their midst.

The villain of “Everything Burns” is evil and calculating. As he plans, executes, and enjoys his fires, the reader wants nothing more than for him to be realized—for someone, anyone, to recognize who he is and the vile things that he is doing. Who starts a fire in a YMCA full of young children, anyway?

“Everything Burns” is a spectacular story that invites you to hop on the back of Boots motorcycle and enjoy the ride. A family he doesn’t really understand, money that is not really his own, and that deep journalistic desire to tell the story make Boots a character unlike many you will find in any other work of fiction today.

Author Christopher Klim is able to embrace any subject and make it his own. From children’s stories to the critically acclaimed Jesus Lives in Trenton, Klim is an author who comes a little more into his own with each page he pens. Each book is different and unique and has a voice that is one of a kind.