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Could the working class towns of New England be the setting for a new mystery subgenre? There are Archer Mayor's books about Vermont cop Joe Gunther, and now Mark Arsenault patrols the shabby streets of Lowell, <br>Massachusetts in his second novel about reporter and teacher Eddie Borque - a man who believes that newpapers are the highest form of journalism. <br>When a local banker who was carjacked and then burned to death six months before reappears (in a new photograph sent to his wife), Eddie writes a high-profile story for the Associated Press. This results in a letter from Borque's older brother Hank, a man he's never met who is serving a life sentence for murder. I know who's doing this, Hank writes from prison, sending Bourque off on a personal and professional journey. Arsenault's plot is intriguing, but what you'll remember most is the conviction that Eddie brings to his newspaper work. -- Dick Adler, Crime Watch Columnist, ChicagoTribune 2/6/2005
