Fire Feud

by Thomas Roehlk

The discovery of human remains at an active construction site sets the foundation for Fire Feud by Thomas Roehlk, a novel that opens with a professional crisis and quickly widens into something far more complex. What begins as a legal containment issue soon reveals deeper personal and historical implications.

When construction crews uncover a skeleton at a Chicago jobsite, attorney Mandy Doucette is tasked with managing the legal and corporate consequences. Initial assumptions about the remains collapse once DNA evidence ties the body directly to her own company—and to the family of her boyfriend. What appeared to be a contained compliance matter escalates into a far-reaching threat.

Mandy’s twin sister, Reggie, an FBI forensic pathologist, identifies links between the remains and a crime rooted in the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Her findings expose a feud between two influential families that has endured for more than a century. As Mandy and Reggie follow the evidence, they encounter deception, fraud, and escalating violence from individuals determined to protect their power and reputations. The deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes that uncovering the truth may cost them everything.

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Thomas M. Roehlk is a retired corporate attorney from St. Charles, Illinois, whose career spans major international corporations in the defense sector, consumer products, transportation equipment, and financial services. He spent more than 20 years serving as general counsel and chief compliance officer for a public company, bringing deep real-world legal and corporate insight to his fiction. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and John Marshall Law School, Roehlk also holds a Master in Management degree from Northwestern University. A devoted endurance athlete, he has completed more than 100 marathons and ultramarathons worldwide, as well as ten Ironman triathlons. After 46 years in the Chicago metropolitan area, he and his wife now split their time between Florida and New York. Visit Thomas at his website.