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Автор: Justin Scott
Год: 2011
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 256
ISBN: 9781590589717
Praise for Mausoleum... "Wry, witty and garnished with sharply observed local color: Scott at his best." -Kirkus Reviews starred review When a gaudy, half-million-dollar mausoleum invades the 300-year-old village cemetery in Newbury, Connecticut, realtor Ben Abbott is not happy. Newcomer Brian Grose's enormous, mirror-polished eruption of eternal ego sticks out in the peaceful burying ground like a McMansion in an apple orchard. Ben's fellow drinkers at the bar have nicknamed the monstrosity, "McTomb." But no one expected to find Brian's body locked in his mausoleum, 50 years ahead of schedule. Then Homeland Security Immigration Criminal Enforcement agents (ICE) descend on Newbury hunting for Charlie Cubrero, an illegal immigrant farmhand-and supposed gang leader-who bought a gun after he was stiffed for 50 bucks by Brian Grose. Ben Abbott doesn't buy it. Half the town was in the graveyard celebrating Newbury's tercentennial when Brian was shot, and most of them were...
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