Skip's Reviews > Agony Hill

Ex-Bostonian cop Franklin Warren arrives in idyllic Bethany, Vermont, to become a detective with the state police, recommended by a family friend. A disgruntled farmer dies in a barn fire, an apparent suicide, and Warren uses the investigation as a means to meet his new community. The pregnant widow has four young sons, and becomes a target for her husband's brother, who is angered by not receiving an inheritance, which he sorely needs. There are many people in town, who did not like the decedent, and Warren slowly uncovers other petty crimes and country kindnesses, dispensing his own sensible justice along the way. I look forward to reading the sequel.