num_pages: 234
description: Something is obviously not-as-it-should-be around the handsome blooming Sunberg household in San Sebastian California. Used-car biggie Papa Sam always smiles; Mama Sunberg is a bosomy recluse given to exposing herself to passers-by; first son Gus drinks; second son Luke is half-witted; big daughter Thelma is a frigid tease prone to hysterical laughing fits; baby Gunnar is retarded; housekeeper Hannah is a beady-eyed harpie. Only teenager Kristin seems outgoing and normal but she's plenty worried--especially when private detective Alan Bonner comes to town determined to find out what happened to Tony Lopez a Sunberg employee who came to dinner one night and promptly disappeared.
language: English
title: This House Is Burning
publisher: Signet