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 . . .