Fire Pattern

When Ray Jerome, a crotchety journalist on the Whiteford Examiner, is
asked to investigate a case of spontaneous human combustion, his first
reaction is to ridicule the idea - but he is not able to back out of
doing the story. To his own surprise, he becomes fascinated by the
phenomenon of people who burn up for no obvious reason. It is a
fascination that will make 1986 the most unbelievable year of his life.