The Fire She Set
Leigh Overton Boyd
The Fire She Set is a gripping memoir of arson/murder, perseverance and redemption surrounding a 1974 house fire near Atlantic City, New Jersey. Centered on the lives of four sisters, the subsequent investigation gives the book crossover appeal into other genres including the science of fire forensics, wrongful convictions, and triumphing over personal tragedy. Learn more…
“Leigh Boyd proves that you don’t need to write a doorstopper-sized sprawling flowery epic to paint a vivid picture of her family’s tragic event and bring it to life in all its drama, secrets, heartbreaks, loss and pain.”
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Leigh Overton Boyd is the oldest of four sisters to survive a house fire outside of Atlantic City in June 1974 that killed her parents. In the years following the fire investigation, Leigh earned a degree in criminal justice, studied the law and became Miss Atlantic City. The mother of two children, one of whom she lost to muscular dystrophy, she has her own real estate consulting company in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is her first book. Learn more…
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