Scent of Evil — Archer Mayor

HOT ON THE SCENT

Brattleboro is the picture-perfect Vermont hamlet: leafy, Victorian, safe. Lieutenant Joe Gunther knows better and expects trouble during the long hot summer. But murder? Murder, in a town this size, is never expected, and more surprises surface when Gunther discovers the victim, a young stockbroker, had a pen-chant for drugs and sex. Worse yet, he'd been romancing the wife of a local cop, an officer whose fresh footprints encircle the murder scene. Soon three more bodies turn up, including that of a small-time drug dealer who had been hiding a big-time cache of drugs. Tight-lipped Vermonters aren't talking, but that won't stop Gunther; he's certain the killings are connected. And that the murderer is waiting for him.