God in Concord: A Homer Kelly Mystery - Hardcover

Langton, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670842605 ISBN 13: 9780670842605

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1992

Synopsis

When the elderly residents of Concord Breezes, a retirement community in Massachusetts, begin dying systematically, retired detective and Concord resident Homer Kelly works overtime to save the surviving seniors from an unknown killer. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.

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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: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0670842605
• ISBN 13: 9780670842605
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384