The Joe Gunther Mysteries - Book 8
Bellows Falls
“Mayor creates the kind of characters who have always had to fight for survival…It is when these people are viewed collectively—as Bellows Falls in the flesh—that we can really see the value of their lives.”
New York Times Book Review
Joe Gunther is sent to the neighboring town of Bellows Falls to investigate harassment allegations against a fellow officer. But as Gunther doggedly pursues the truth, what begins as a seemingly open-and-shut case starts to look more and more like a frame job, and he soon finds himself feeling around the edges of a statewide drug distribution network.
As always, Vermont itself is a major character in Mayor's writing, with Bellows Falls standing in for any number of slowly decaying, once-proud mill towns.
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