Sarah is going to burst into flames any day now. She's seen it happen already; it's only a matter of time before it happens to her, too. In the suburbs, an old man is trapped by his own garden. A university student is growing bigger by the day.

Any of these cases would be hard for a private detective to ignore, but all Mike Baxter wants to do is find a way to save his niece. Yet as he digs deeper into his strange caseload, he soon discovers these unusual events have more in common than they seem.

And if he doesn't find out who is responsible and stop them, it won't just be his family in danger.

"The Elements of Death" is an exciting new novel from the author of "The Amnesia Project".