Brattleboro is the epitome of scenic Vermont. Quaint in its architecture and plainspoken in its politics, it dominates the state's southeast corner. And yet there is darkness here, too, and nobody knows it better that veteran cop Joe Gunther. Over the years, he has battled drug pushers, corporate swindlers and foiled gangs...but hasn't always come out on top. Thirty years earlier, shop owner Klaus Oberfeldt was robbed and beaten senseless. When Klaus died six months later, a case of assault and battery became murder. The guilty man eventually appeared, but Gunther, distracted by his wife's losing struggle with cancer in the same hospital where Klaus was slipping from life, did something he would always regret: he let the case go cold. Now reopened, the Oberfeldt investigation forces Gunther to open old wounds. For somewhere on the idyllic Brattleboro streets, stalks a murderer who has good reason to kill again...
- ISBN10 0709078269
- ISBN13 9780709078265
- Publish Date 30 June 2005 (first published 1 January 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 April 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
- Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English