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Violence
Some
Arson; the investigation involves agricultural crime and violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
Some
The specific economics of small-scale farming and how criminal opportunity exploits financial desperation; the arson pattern as a clue to something organized rather than individual
What this book is about
A series of farm fires in Vermont's St. Albans area looks like arson, but the pattern is difficult to explain in terms of normal motive. Joe Gunther investigates and discovers that the fires are connected to a larger network of agricultural crime — insurance fraud and land grabbing operating beneath the surface of Vermont's farming community. Archer Mayor's eleventh Gunther novel examines the economics of Vermont farming and the specific vulnerability of agricultural land to criminal exploitation.
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eleventh Joe Gunther novel by Archer Mayor
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