One in the Bardy Copyne series that I missed and am so glad I went back to pick it up and read it.Mr Tapply has some an ease, in the way he writes/talks that you almost forget you are flipping the pages followig along in the story of Brady and his lady friend Alex. Alex, a writer, has leased a cottage in the southwestern Maine town of garrison. Brady drives up on the weekends to continue their relationship and along the way, stumbles onto a twisted mystery of Nazi swastikas, a poisoned dog and a missing local woman names Charlotte. Layer after layer of small town life is uncovered, where everyone knows everything about each other yet at the same time, greed and politics rear their ugly head. I am so very sad that Mr. Tapply recently passed away for I will truly miss his story-telling.