02335cam a2200445 i 4500 292217995 TxAuBib 20170509120000.0 170213s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017002975 9780385541367 0385541368 9781101971857 1101971851 (OCoLC)972640079 TxAuBib rda McMahon, Jennifer, 1968- Burntown : a novel / Jennifer McMahon. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2017] ©2017. 287 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. Now, on the run from the man called "Snake Eyes," Necco must rely on other Burntown outsiders to survive..."-- Provided by publisher. 20170509. Fiction Suspense. Fiction Mystery & Detective Women Sleuths. Fiction Coming of Age. Murder Fiction. Homeless persons Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Inventions Fiction. Mystery fiction. New England Economic conditions Fiction. Suspense fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.)