Hot Pursuit, the third and final novella in a series, finds arson investigator, Murphy Dowling, and her significant other, M. Beck, a police detective, stymied by a crime streak that poses an increasingly serious threat to Murphy. Inspector Dowling juggles, work, romance, a stalker, and the demands of a relentless and annoying aspiring writer, who is studying her as research for a novel. Events race to a conclusion that shocks both Dowling and Beck.