In the midst of the turmoil, a White River police officer is shot dead by an unknown sniper.
White River Burning, featuring the author's brainy gumshoe-for-hire, Dave Gurney, checks all these boxes. The situation in White River becomes truly explosive as more killings occur in what appears to be an escalating sequence of retaliations. Description"John Verdon writes grown-up detective novels, by which I mean stories with intelligent plots, well-developed characters and crimes that have social consequences.