The Burn Palace: A Novel

"One of the best of the best...You can't ask for more than this book gives. I loved it." - Stephen King "An exquisitely unexpected, delightfully believable exploration of what normal looks like when it goes through the (evil) looking glass." -Oprah.com The sleepy community of Brewster, Rhode Island, is just like any other small American town. It's a place where most of its inhabitants will die blocks from where they were born; where gossip spreads like wildfire, and the big weekend entertainment is the inevitable fight at the local bar. But recently, something out of the ordinary-perhaps even supernatural-has been stirring. While packs of coyotes gather and a baby is stolen and replaced with a snake, a series of inexplicably violent acts confounds Detective Woody Potter-and inspires terror in the locals. A Richard Russo small-town tableau crossed with a Stephen King thriller, The Burn Palace is a darkly funny, twisted portrait of chaos and paranoia that keeps readers guessing until the final pages.