Ronald Weber
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In this sequel to Ronald Weber's Aluminum Hatch, Fitzgerald gets a call from a colleague in the newspaper business, asking Fitzgerald to see if he can
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locate a wannabe reporter who hasn't checked in for some time. Reluctantly, Fitzgerald drives out to the remote lake area where the reporter lives, and finds her dead from a gunshot to the head. After calling in his discovery to the sheriff, Fitzgerald learns that the reporter's husband is also dead.Fitzgerald's girlfriend, Mercy Virdon, a district officer for the Department of Natural Resources, gets involved when Fitzgerald's investigation leads him in the direction of a man who's already caused the DNR a good deal of trouble by illegally fencing off land he doesn't own and denying anyone access to the Borchard River -- apparently a plan to keep outsiders from knowing about the man's involvement with local militia units -and the reporter had very recently been snooping in the man's business.As Mercy and Fitzgerald dig deeper into the murders, they find more and more evidence that the militia is far more active than they thought; that illegal whiskey running is far from dead in Michigan's lower peninsula; and that otherwise quiet little old ladies can get stirred up something fierce when their lives and loves are threatened...
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