New World Monkeys — Nancy Mauro

Duncan and Lily, young and adrift in a prickly marriage and flagging careers, flee Manhattan fora summer in the upstate town of Osterhagen. Duncan, an ambitious adman, is writing a campaign that will either make or break him, while Lily can't seem to get her Ph.D. dissertation off the ground. But when, on their inaugural drive north, a wild boar leaps to its death in front of their car, the stage is set for a summer of unsettling events.

Osterhagen, they begin to realize, is hardly the bucolic escape they'd imagined. And during an evening of gardening the couple is shocked to unearth a human femur. The unlikely treasure leads them to exhume what may be the remains of a hundred-year-old nanny. But as Duncan and Lily begin to excavate the century-gone mystery -- and the truth about their marriage -- the summer's violent beginning catches up with them.