God in Concord (A Homer Kelly Mystery) - Softcover

Langton, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140165940 ISBN 13: 9780140165944

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1993

Synopsis

When the retirees of the trailer park community located on a choice piece of property begin to die mysterious deaths, Homer Kelly investigates, certain that their deaths are linked to the sudden interest in development in the town. Reprint.

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Ominous happenings in Concord, Mass., site of Thoreau's Walden and long the home base of the author's intellectual ex-cop Homer Kelly (National Enemy, etc.). Mega-developer Jefferson Grandison is determined to build a cutesy new town on the edge of the pond. His ardent henchman is Jack Markey, aided in turn by money-mad entrepreneur Mimi Pink, who's already overboutiqued a once-sensible Main Street. The elderly population of Walden Breezes, a trailer camp on desirable land, is being decimated at an alarming rate, despite Homer's pleas to local law enforcement to pay attention. Add to all this the invasion of a tacky little band of homeless from Boston; the emotional turmoil of handsome young Ananda Singh, a Thoreau worshiper from India whose pilgrimage almost costs him his life; and the ongoing conflicts between planning boards and nature lovers. The final upshot is a tidy triumph for the good guys--unrealistic, perhaps, but great good fun for the reader. The author's clever live drawings further enhance a richly textured, unflaggingly entertaining story. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140165940
• ISBN 13: 9780140165944
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352