Synopses & Reviews
Shadow on Cant-dog Hill is a tense mystery with a strong female lead. The story is set in the corner of Vermonts Northeast Kingdom where Canaan village is forty five miles from the nearest stoplight and sometimes equally removed from the law. It is mid-January, 1982. Single parents Adele Clayton and Reilly Bostwick are in love. Nothing prevents them from forming a new family except a murder and a kidnapping. Two days ago Reilly found a woman shot faceless on a snowy hillside. Yesterday the state medical examiner identified the victim as his ex-wife and police discovered matching blood in his cellar. Today Reilly sits in jail believing that nothing worse could happen to him and his eight-year-old daughter Amy. Hes wrong. The true killers are looking for her. Fortunately their intricate plan didnt anticipate the talents of young widow Adele Clayton. These are the dynamics of an intricate and exciting novel with an uplifting outcome: a mystery that stands in contrast to most police procedurals and PI stories. This detectives motivation isnt justice or money; its love.
Synopsis
We have a popular new president and a tanking economy. The housing market is in crisis and we are vexed by turmoil in the Middle East . Citizens long for energy independence.
It's 1982.
Shadow on Cant-dog Hill is a tale for hard times: an intricate thriller from Vermont's most remote village where the wealth of friendship cleverly overcomes the poverty of despair.
Single parents Adele Clayton and Reilly Bostwick are in love. Nothing prevents them from forming a new family, except a murder and a kidnapping.
John Vibber, an eighth generation Yankee, retired from thirty six years of high school teaching and administration after successfully embezzling stories from three Vermont communities. Now, he discloses a dark tale with echoes of his personal experience as a struggling single parent. John lives happily in Burlington, Vermont with Ann Brown, the love of his life, and Rigby, Golden Retriever puppy extraordinaire.