The book is very clear in labeling the different settings the story takes place in. Setting #1 is in 1985 in a town called Brighton Falls, Connecticutt. Here are a few lines from the novel that help tell the setting:
-"The men who worked in high-rises in Hartford moved their familes to places like Brighton Falls, safe little bedroom communities with good schools, no crime, and fresh air" (McMahon location 162).
-"The biggest crime the police had to deal with in recent years had been the time the mayor's son drank too much at graduation, ran a red light, and led the police on an across-town chase that ended when he drove his Mercedes into the country club swimming pool" (McMahon location 175)
These lines describing the town actually remind me very much of Mason (recently ranked 7th best place to live in the United States). Many Mason parents work in high-rises in Cincinnati and moved here for reasons such as the schools. This is the town where the crimes were committed by Neptune and everyone was shocked because it was such a sleep, crime-free town, as described above.
The second setting is in fall/early winter 2010 in Rockland, Vermont. I inferred it was fall due to the following line, "The trees, vivid with oranges, yellows, and reds just last week, were losing their brightness. The cold and wind of the last three days had brought many of the leaves off the trees. Out across the lake, a V of Canada geese headed south" (McMahon location 200). The more modern setting isn't as integral to the story as the former. The town of Brighton Falls is where the conflict is developed, so the author spends more time in her description. The modern setting of Rockland isn't described as much since the main plot happens elsewhere.
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