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 . . .