His sleuthing brings him into close contact with Door County’s leading citizens: coroner Evelyn Bathard and his frail wife, Cornelia baker Martha Smithson fiber artist Ruby Schumacher and her photographer niece, Cate, who might be inclined to offer Dave her own brand of consolation. Beck also hires Dave privately to investigate. Dugan Beck, whose family made a fortune in beer, browbeat Sheriff Halverson into letting the festivities continue. Otto wants to cancel the annual spring festival that brings waves of tourists into the park. Two cyclists are slashed by piano wire strung between trees. A local fisherman is blown up on his boat. A teenager is hacked to death with an ax. A young man is found dead at the foot of the park’s observation tower. Then a series of deaths shatters the landscape. He still broods, and he still drinks too much, but he starts to enjoy the routine and the beauty of the woods. With only surly Otto Johnson and aging housekeeper Ruta Lapkritis for company in Jensen Station, Dave is on his own much of the time. So his partner, Malcolm, jawbones him into a yearlong stint as a ranger in Peninsula State Park, a finger of land jutting into Green Bay. A Chicago ex-cop seeks solace in a Wisconsin forest.Įven after the thug who mowed down his wife and daughter has been tried and convicted, Dave Cubiak can’t shake the sadness of his loss.
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