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"Super, swift-sure characterisation, pace...Paula Gosling has all the gifts" SUNDAY TIMES "Ingenious plotting...and a slam-bang solution." LITERARY REVIEW It's election time in Blackwater Bay - but there's a dead man in Cotter's Cut who won't be casting his vote this year. Sheriff Matt Gabriel is faced with a murder without apparent motive. Circumstantial evidence leads him to arrest Frog Bartlett, but he's not happy about it. Frog Bartlett has a nasty temper, it's true. But at least one person believes he is innocent - and has enough money to anonymously finance a strong defence. The election hots up, tempers become frayed, a small riot occurs - and then somebody else is killed. Suddenly, Matt Gabriel himself is a suspect...