Burntown: A Novel

Burntown: A Novel

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People:

Ashford, Vermont, might look like your typical sleepy New England college town, but to the shadowy residents who live among the remains of its abandoned mills and factories, itâ€™s known as â€œBurntown.â€
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Eva Sandeski, known as â€œNeccoâ€ on the street, has been a part of this underworld for years, ever since the night her father Miles drowned in a flood that left her and her mother Lily homeless. A respected professor, Miles was also an inventor of fantastic machines, including one so secret that the plans were said to have been stolen from Thomas Edisonâ€™s workshop. According to Lily, itâ€™s this machine that got Miles murdered.
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Necco has always written off this claim as the fevered imaginings of a woman consumed by grief. But when Lily dies under mysterious circumstances, and Neccoâ€™s boyfriend is murdered, sheâ€™s convinced her mother was telling the truth. Now, on the run from the man called â€œSnake Eyes,â€ Necco must rely on other Burntown outsiders to survive.
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There are the â€œfire eaters,â€ mystical women living off the grid in a campsite on the riverâ€™s edge, practicing a kind of soothsaying inspired by powerful herbs called â€œthe devilâ€™s snuffâ€; thereâ€™s Theo, a high school senior who is scrambling to repay the money she owes a dangerous man; and then thereâ€™s Pru, the cafeteria lady with a secret life.
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As the lives of these misfits intersect, and as the killer from the Sandeski familyâ€™s past draws ever closer, a story of edge-of-your-seat suspense begins to unfurl with classic Jennifer McMahon twists and surprises.
Country USA
Brand Doubleday
Manufacturer Doubleday
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 0385541368
ReleaseDate 2017-04-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385541367

Country	USA
Brand	Doubleday
Manufacturer	Doubleday
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	0385541368
ReleaseDate	2017-04-25
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780385541367

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