When a brutal murder shatters the isolation of this forgotten place, triggering the arrival of state police homicide detectives and a town-wide manhunt, both the local cops and Maddox appear to have something to hide. No hope.ĭonald Maddox, a man with no law enforcement background - indeed, no background at all - has returned to his hometown after fifteen years to find himself employed as an auxiliary patrolman on a local police force known to inspire more fear than trust in its citizenry. The crack of a handgun shatters the silence of a warm summer night.A notorious local felon and former child magician vanishes, seemingly without a trace.A corrupt police force applies a stranglehold to a failing town.An ailing old man hatches a last-ditch plan to save the police department he once headed, and the community he still loves.An outsider arrives, bearing a simple recipe for death that could destroy them all.īuried deep in the rural backcountry of New England, the town of Black Falls isn't dying so much as quietly fading away. With a brilliantly plotted new crime novel set in small-town Massachusetts, Chuck Hogan, prizewinning author of Prince of Thieves, delivers a page-turning, knockout thriller that demonstrates why he is the unrivaled master of gritty suspense.
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