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The Burn Palace [Hardcover] Dobyns, Stephen

The sleepy community of Brewster, Rhode Island, is just like any other small American town Its a place where most of the population will likely die blocks from where they were born; where gossip spreads like wildfire, and the big entertainment on weekends is the inevitable fight at the local bar But recently, something out of the ordinaryperhaps even supernaturalhas been stirring in Brewster While packs of coyotes gather on back roads and the news spreads that a baby has been stolen from Memorial Hospital and replaced in its bassinet by a snake, a series of inexplicably violent acts begins to confound Detective Woody Potter and the local policeand inspire terror in the hearts and minds of the localsFrom awardwinning author Stephen Dobyns comes a sardonic yet chillingly suspenseful novel: the literary equivalent of a Richard Russo smalltown tableau crossed with a Stephen King thriller The Burn Palace is a darkly funny, twisted portrait of chaos and paranoia, with an impressive host of richly rendered, largerthanlife characters and a thrilling plot that will keep readers guessing until the final pages