Goes well with: If you live in Maine, Howard Hopkins suggests Maine lobster rolls. Everyone else—tacos with dirty rice. Pages: 104
Every year, around Halloween, exactly three kids disappear in the small town of New Salem, Maine. It’s also around the time the headless paperboy rides his bicycle, throwing flaming newspapers at any kid unlucky enough to get caught out near dark too close to the cemetery. New Salem
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When former bank manager R. J. Butler is found murdered in the back of a bus, Jerome “Stan” Stankowski of the Special Investigations Unit of the state police is called in to investigate. Note the words “former banker,” as Butler was fired for possible embezzlement of a state bank; hence the interest of the state authorities. This crime demands so much attention that the state’s attorney general’s office orders that their veteran deputy, Parker
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