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Title Statement | Burntown: a novel / [largetype] : Jennifer McMahon. |
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Author | McMahon, Jennifer |
Publication | New York: Random House Large Print,[2017]©2017 |
Edition | First Large Print edition. |
Extent of Item | 422 pages |
ISBN | 152478026X (pbk.) 9781524780265 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3119549 |
Summary | 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, it's known as "Burntown." Eva Sandeski, known as "Necco" 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 Edison's workshop. According to Lily, it's this machine that got Miles murdered. 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 Necco's boyfriend is murdered, she's convinced her mother was telling the truth. |
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By Topic | Homeless persons--Fiction |
Murder--Fiction | |
Large type books | |
By Location | Vermont--Fiction |
By Genre | Mystery fiction |
Suspense fiction |