Title: Monstrous beauty
Description: 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 Ezra's ghost that reveals her connection to the murders and to Syrenka.
Subjects: Mermaids, Murder, Supernatural, Ghosts, History, Fiction, Paranormal fiction, Juvenile fiction, Ghost stories, Mermaids and mermen, Homicide, Children's fiction, Mermaids, fiction, Ghosts, fiction, Murder, fiction, Supernatural, fiction, Massachusetts, fiction, Massachusetts, history, fiction
Places: Massachusetts
Time periods: 19th century