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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, show more once-proud mill towns. show lessTags
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Back home in Vermont, in the very definitely down-at-heels rural and semi-rural old economy where drugs are more widespread than jobs and the feeling of helplessness is widely felt, our detective is asked to investigate a supposed case of sexual harassment by a policeman, and it morphs as all good police procedurals do into dope, murder, manipulation, and jurisdictional touchiness. Previous entries in this series have been more involved in the regulars' emotional lives, but this episode still gives us that curious double vision of beautiful New England landscape and sometimes crushing economic collapse.
Joe Gunther Vermont USA
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38+ Works 6,407 Members
Archer Mayor lives in Newfane, Vermont. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Canonical title
- Bellows Falls
- Original publication date
- 1997-12
- People/Characters
- Joe Gunther
- Important places
- Bellows Falls, Vermont, USA
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- Members
- 219
- Popularity
- 148,901
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.75)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 12
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 5
