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The arsonist

Miller, Sue 1943- (Author).

Summary: "A superb new story about a family and a community tested when an arsonist begins setting fires. Frankie Rowley has come home to the small New Hampshire town of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered after working in East Africa for 15 years. On her first night back, a house up the road burns to the ground. Is it an accident, or arson? Over the weeks that follow, as Frankie comes to recognize her father's slow failing and her mother's desperation, another house burns, and then another, always the homes of summer people."

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  • ISBN: 9780307594792 (hardcover) :
  • ISBN: 9780307741790 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    303 p. ; 25cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Subject: Arson -- Fiction
Arson investigation -- Fiction
Pyromania -- Fiction
Genre: Suspense fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Suspense fiction.

Available copies

  • 14 of 14 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 14 total copies.
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Acquisition Type: New
35140001056319 Fiction Volume hold Available -

Summary: "A superb new story about a family and a community tested when an arsonist begins setting fires. Frankie Rowley has come home to the small New Hampshire town of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered after working in East Africa for 15 years. On her first night back, a house up the road burns to the ground. Is it an accident, or arson? Over the weeks that follow, as Frankie comes to recognize her father's slow failing and her mother's desperation, another house burns, and then another, always the homes of summer people."
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