Fama, Elizabeth.

Monstrous beauty / Elizabeth Fama. - 1st Square Fish ed. - New York : Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2013. - 295, [49] p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.

Originally published: United States : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012. Includes Monstrous Beauty bonus materials following story ([49] p.).

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.

ISBN: 9781250034250 (pbk.) 1250034256 (pbk.)

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mermaids--Fiction.
Ghost stories.
Murder--Fiction.
Paranormal fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Massachusetts--Fiction.
Massachusetts--History--19th century--Fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]