There's a lot of voices here, but they all stand out in some way, and add to the story, from the deaf llama farmer and her daughter, to the wife of one of the full-time cops, Maddox's only competition for that scholarship that got him out of town. In a town with 2 full-time cops and a couple of part-timers whose uniforms are embroidered T-shirts and ball caps, Maddox is increasingly pressed into service to investigate mischief, mayhem, drugs, domestics, and other crimes. Its a dying paper mill town, a quiet town, until the peace is shattered when a resident is brutally murdered and a local sex offender goes missing. Now, he's a part-time patrolman with no law experience on a police force that no one wants to answer a 911 call, a job he won with the help of his one-time mentor, the head selectman and the former police chief. Hogan, who penned "Prince of Thieves" as his debut ( it became Ben Affleck's "The Town"), has a fine sense for creating atmosphere, totally believable situations and quirky characters.ĭon Maddox returns to Black Falls, the town he couldn't leave fast enough 15 years ago when he won a college scholarship. But rural rednecks aren't that different wherever their roots are as this tale would have it. Maybe because this book has that kinda of vibe, even though it's set in western Massachusetts. Don't ask me why but this book made me think of James Dickey's "Deliverance" - the theme song from the movie kept going through my head.
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