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Nineteen-year-old Ben Tyler vows to protect Alison, a beautiful young woman, from threats of murder, until he stumbles upon a dark secret that could destroy everyone and everything he cares about. Original.
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THE CRITICS RAVE ABOUT ED GORMAN AND BLACK RIVER FALLS!
"Black River Falls proves once again that Gorman is a master storyteller." A Shot in the Dark
"A suspense-filled tale with realistic characters and lots of surprises... Excellent!" Telegraph & Arbus
"One of our best and most underappreciated thriller writers." Booklist
"The modern master of the lean and mean thriller." Rocky Mountain News
"The poet of dark suspense." Bloomsbury Review
"All the cliches of reviewing come true. You will not be able to put his books down. You will keep turning the pages. You will jump at sudden noises. Gorman's going to be seriously big in a Dean Koontz, Thomas Harris manner. Ed Gorman's coming to get you!" Crime Line
"One of suspense fiction's best storytellers." Ellery Queen
"One of our best writers." Mystery News
"Gorman has a wonderful writing style that allows him to say things of substance in an entertaining way." San Francisco Examiner
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Black River Falls
Ed Gorman
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For Bob Tanneragent, friend, very patient man.
A LEISURE BOOK
September, 1999
Published by
Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc. 276 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10001
If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the publisher and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this "stripped book."
Copyright 1996 by Ed Gorman
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law.
ISBN 0-8439-4642-3
The name "Leisure Books" and the stylized "L" with design are trademarks of Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.
Printed in the United States of America.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I'd like to thank Dr. Marvin Schmitt, D.V.M., and Sandy Jordan for their help with the veterinary background of this book.
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PROLOGUE
4th Precinct Patrolman William F. Sievers 7 June, 1995
I was investigating a stolen car complaint when a woman from down the block asked me if I could stop by her apartment house later.
After finishing up with the stolen car, I went down to see the woman. She lived in one of the old Victorians on the corner of 34th Street and D Avenue where a lot of university students, a lot of poor blacks, and a lot of drug dealers live.
The woman said the apartment manager wouldn't do anything about the stench in the apartment next to hers and would I check it out. I got the manager to give me the key and that's when I found the girl in the bedroom.
8 July, 1995
She came almost every night now, and always did the same thing, just stood there in front of the shabby Victorian that not even the moonlight could save, and stared up at the window of the apartment where she'd lived with the dead girl.
The people in the neighborhood knew who she was, of
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course; her name was Alison. She'd lived among them for a good while, an earnestly pretty girl with big somber eyes and a quick sad smile.
Sometimes it rained but the girl came anyway, not seeming to notice when she got soaked, not even seeming to notice when one of the old black women came up to her and said, 'Darlin' why don't you come inside and let me make you some coffee?' The girl was always grateful for the kindness but never accepted it.
She just wanted to stand here, watching, remembering.
Hot angry summer gave way to chill solemn autumn, and then the girl didn't come quite so often, nor stay quite so long. The old ladies who watched her from their windows had despaired of helping her. All they could do was wonder why she came back here, what she was hoping to learn by standing down there on the sidewalk, frail as a child, staring up at the dark apartment, the place not having been rented since the murder.
What could she possibly want here?
4th Precinct Patrolman William F. Sievers 7 June, 1995
I guess the thing I noticed right away, even before I took a good long look at her wounds, was her face. She looked a lot like my little sister, Janice. And I got scared. I wanted to get on the phone and call my Mom back on the farm and make sure that Janice was all right. She was sixteen now and driving and going out with boys, and these days girls can get in a lot of trouble.
The young woman was sprawled on her back on the bed. She had blonde hair so you could plainly see where somebody had
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smashed in the left side of her skull. A fly sat on the wound making angry buzzing noises
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