Summary:
In Barnburner, secretary turned reporter Jennifer Pierce finds the incendiary mix of a fundamentalist preacher and an unabashedly pagan back-to-the-earth couple could be worth a story--and someone's life. When a new computer BBS pops up in town around the same time, there are complications that reach far beyond Maine, and as close as her own front door.
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller are well known for their Liaden Universe series, but Sharon also writes on her own. Barnburner, is a mystery set in Maine, during that dusty, musty time when 'going online' meant dialing up a bulletin board service. Remember when? Set in the 1980s, the Jennifer Pierce mystery series features a prototypical small town in Maine going through the transition from a self-reliant semi-rural mill town to distant suburb of the information age. Barnburner introduces Jennifer Pierce, accidental resident of Wimsey, Maine, detailing in part her adjustment to the small-town ways of Maine after a life lived in Baltimore
In Barnburner, secretary turned reporter Jennifer Pierce finds the incendiary mix of a fundamentalist preacher and an unabashedly pagan back-to-the-earth couple could be worth a story--and someone's life. When a new computer BBS pops up in town around the same time, there are complications that reach far beyond Maine, and as close as her own front door.
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller are well known for their Liaden Universe series, but Sharon also writes on her own. Barnburner, is a mystery set in Maine, during that dusty, musty time when 'going online' meant dialing up a bulletin board service. Remember when? Set in the 1980s, the Jennifer Pierce mystery series features a prototypical small town in Maine going through the transition from a self-reliant semi-rural mill town to distant suburb of the information age. Barnburner introduces Jennifer Pierce, accidental resident of Wimsey, Maine, detailing in part her adjustment to the small-town ways of Maine after a life lived in Baltimore
