Monstrous Beauty
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In alternating chapters, tells of the mermaid Syrenka's love for Ezra in 1872 that leads to a series of horrific murders, and present-day Hester's encounter with a ghost that reveals her connection to the murders and to Syrenka.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 295 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 780
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374373665
0374373663
SUBJECTS
Mermaids -- Fiction.
Ghosts -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
Supernatural -- Fiction.
Massachusetts -- Fiction.
Massachusetts -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Occult fiction.
Ghost stories.