Bellows Falls

Joe Gunther is seconded to the neighboring town of Bellows Falls to

investigate harassment allegations against a fellow officer. What begins

as a seemingly open-and-shut case comes to look more and more like a

frame job as Gunther doggedly pursues the truth, and soon he 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.