The Arsonist Author:Sue Miller Troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for fifteen years, Frankie Rowley has come home -- home to the small New Hampshire village of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered. On her first night back, a house up the road burns to the ground. Then another house burns, and another, always... more » the houses of the summer people. In a town where people have never bothered to lock their doors, social fault lines are opened, and neighbors begin to regard one another with suspicion.
Against this backdrop of menace and fear, Frankie begins a passionate, unexpected affair with the editor of the local paper, a romance that progresses with exquisite tenderness and heat toward its own remarkable risks and revelations.« less
I didn't get very far, it didn't start off very good and it didn't pick up after 30 pages but plug along, it still didn't pick up--it was just slow slow slow and I don't like this style of writing.