In the midst of the turmoil, a White River police officer is shot dead by an unknown sniper.
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. He lives with his wife, Naomi, in the rural mountains of upstate New York--raising chickens, tending the garden, mowing the fields, and devising the intricate plots of the Gurney novels.Obsessed with evidence that doesn't support the official version of events, Gurney cannot let go of the case. White River Burning is the most provocative and timely book yet by the author hailed by the New York Times as "masterly"--furthering the adventures of Dave Gurney, a detective reviewers have compared to Sherlock Holmes.