A review by joannelock
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper

5.0

This is a brilliantly researched, nuanced and highly compassionate explanation of the deliberately-lit Churchill bushfire of February 2009. Hooper weaves the history of the Latrobe Valley with police investigation, the devastation of families who lost loved ones as well as houses, property and animals, and the life of convicted arsonist Brendan Sokaluk together to explain the inexplicable.