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The smallest town in the smallest state has some BIG problems! Gus Haddock has just been appointed chief of police in the town of Little Penwick, RI, replacing his father, who is now in jail. The state's Attorney General, who sent the elder Haddock away, has appointed a new Special Master to keep tabs on Gus' department. And Chief Haddock's three tours with the U.S. Army Rangers in the Middle East has left him with a touch of PTSD. But Gus starts investigating the unusual circumstances regarding the disappearance of the patriarch of the town's bad-seed local crime family-the case that inspired…mehr

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The smallest town in the smallest state has some BIG problems! Gus Haddock has just been appointed chief of police in the town of Little Penwick, RI, replacing his father, who is now in jail. The state's Attorney General, who sent the elder Haddock away, has appointed a new Special Master to keep tabs on Gus' department. And Chief Haddock's three tours with the U.S. Army Rangers in the Middle East has left him with a touch of PTSD. But Gus starts investigating the unusual circumstances regarding the disappearance of the patriarch of the town's bad-seed local crime family-the case that inspired the Attorney General to send his Dad away. And then SHE walks in. The Glitter Girl. Young, drop-dead gorgeous and apparently deeply involved in the case. Who is she? Why is she living in Little Penwick? How does she fi t into the web of intrigue that links the town, the AG, the Providence Mob and everything else? Gus Haddock has his hands full. But he's a Swamp Yankee ... the salt-of-the-earth natives who have been carving a living out of the rocky land and dangerous seas in this part of New England for four hundred years ... and if anybody can figure out what's going on, he can.
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James Y. Bartlett is an American journalist, writer, editor and author.For most of his career, Bartlett worked in magazine journalism, specializing in covering the worlds of travel, golf and upscale lifestyle. He worked on staff as an editor with Golfweek, Caribbean Travel & Life and Luxury Golf magazines, among others.But he also published hundreds of freelance pieces in publications ranging from Bon Appetit to Esquire, Men's Journal to Golf for Women.Bartlett was the golf columnist for Forbes FYI magazine for the first fifteen years of that publication's history and wrote a similar column on the golf lifestyle for Hemispheres, the in-flight publication of United Airlines for nearly 20 years, the latter under the pseudonym of "A.G. Pollard Jr."He began writing his popular Hacker Golf Mystery series in 1991 with the publication of Death is a Two-Stroke Penalty (St. Martin's Press). That series, now published by Yeoman House, contains seven novels. In 2021, he published Year of the Sheep: A Novel of the Highland Clearances, an epic historical novel of that sad time. Bartlett is also the author of five nonfiction books.Bartlett lives with his wife Susan in Rhode Island.