Mayor delivers another superb combination of case, characters and local color and brings it all to life without a wasted word. -- starred, "Publishers Weekly"
Honoring a request to conduct a minor Internal Affairs investigation for a small-town police department, Joe Gunther travels upriver to the town of Bellows Falls. But there's more to this case than a young officer's embarrassment. Soon rumors of police corruption, spousal abuse, drug deals and murder begin to engulf the little river town -- and Joe is the one responsible for separating fact from fiction, which is becoming a dangerous task . . .
- ISBN10 0446606308
- ISBN13 9780446606301
- Publish Date 1 December 1998 (first published 1 December 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Little, Brown & Company
- Imprint Warner Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English