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"National Book Award Finalist Howard Norman delivers another "provocative ... haunting" novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost (Janet Maslin, New York Times)"-- It's been several months since Simon Inescort had a heart attack and keeled over the rail of a Nova Scotia-bound ferry. His widow, Lorca Pell, sold their farmhouse to newlyweds Zachary and Muriel after revealing that the deed contains a 'ghost clause,' an actual legal clause, not unheard of in Vermont, allowing for reimbursement if a…
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4 editions- Other · English · 2020Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 256 pages · 9780358305620
- Other · English · 2019Thorndike Press · 325 pages · 9781432867379
- Other · English · 2019Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 304 pages · 9780544988064
- Other · English · 2019Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 256 pages · 9780544987296
Fiction, ghostMan-woman relationships, fictionMarriage, fictionMissing persons, fictionVermont, fictionFiction, mystery & detective, generalNew York Times reviewedMarried people