The houseboat : a novel / Dane Bahr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bahr, Dane, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Houseboats--Fiction.

Houseboats.

Mental illness--Fiction.

Mental illness.

Mississippi River--Fiction.

Mississippi River.

Genre:

Fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Physical Description:

245 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2022.

Summary:

"Local outcast Rigby Sellers lives in squalor on a dilapidated houseboat moored on the Mississippi River. With only stolen manikins and the river to keep him company, Rigby begins to spiral from the bizarre to the threatening. As a year of drought gives way to a season of squalls, a girl is found trembling on the side of the road, claiming her boyfriend was murdered. The nearby town of Oscar turns their suspicions toward Sellers. Local Sheriff Amos Fielding calls on a regional Marshall up in Minnesota, detective Edward Ness, to help him investigate the homicide and defuse the growing unrest. Ness, suffering his own demons, arrives in Oscar determined to put his past behind him and solve the case. But soon more bodies are found. As Ness and Fielding uncover disturbing facts about Sellers, and a great storm floods the Mississippi, threatening the town, Oscar is pushed to a breaking point even Ness may not be able to prevent"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781640095083

164009508X

OCLC:

1248599829