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Bellows Falls

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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, once-proud mill towns.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from December 1, 1997
      With this eighth Joe Gunther novel (The Ragman's Memory, 1996, etc.), Mayor delivers another superb combination of case, characters and local color and brings it all to life without a wasted word. Gunther, a Brattleboro, Vt., police lieutenant, is loaned out to the nearby Bellows Falls department to investigate officer Brian Padgett. The cop has been charged with sexual harassment by Jan Bouch, the troubled wife of suspected drug dealer Norm Bouch. Gunther suspects that Norm has forced Jan to frame Padgett, even after the officer tests positive for cocaine. Although Norm Bouch has never been caught, police believe that he controls a large network of young drug sellers, who have a way of vanishing (or turning up dead) when they're linked to him. As Gunther searches, he must deal with the poverty-poisoned town's frustrated police chief, who hopes his department's problems will fade before he retires, and the protective hometown cop who keeps his air-conditioning on and the windows down, a trick to stay cool and still hear the warning sounds of trouble. Through it all, Gunther compassionately observes Vermont mill towns and their people who, left for economically dead in recent decades, are struggling mightily to find new lives.

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