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A Stolen Child, August 2024
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Agony Hill, August 2024
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Still as Death, September 2006
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Judgment of the Grave, August 2006
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Mansions of the Dead, June 2005
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O' Artful Death, June 2004
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Agony Hill
Sarah Stewart Taylor

Bethany, Vermont #1
Minotaur Books
August 2024
On Sale: August 6, 2024
Featuring: Alice Bellows; Hugh Weber; Franklin Warren
320 pages
ISBN: 1250826624
EAN: 9781250826626
Kindle: B0CFJTKN4J
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Police Procedural

Set in rural Vermont in the volatile 1960s, Agony Hill is the first novel in a new historical series full of vivid New England atmosphere and the deeply drawn characters that are Sarah Stewart Taylor's trademark.

In the hot summer of 1965, Bostonian Franklin Warren arrives in Bethany, Vermont, to take a position as a detective with the state police. Warren's new home is on the verge of monumental change; the interstates under construction will bring new people, new opportunities, and new problems to Vermont, and the Cold War and protests against the war in Vietnam have finally reached the dirt roads and rolling pastures of Bethany.

Warren has barely unpacked when he's called up to a remote farm on Agony Hill. Former New Yorker and Back-to-the-Lander Hugh Weber seems to have set fire to his barn and himself, with the door barred from the inside, but things aren’t adding up for Warren. The people of Bethany—from Weber’s enigmatic wife to Warren's neighbor, widow and amateur detective Alice Bellows — clearly have secrets they’d like to keep, but Warren can’t tell if the truth about Weber’s death is one of them. As he gets to know his new home and grapples with the tragedy that brought him there, Warren is drawn to the people and traditions of small town Vermont, even as he finds darkness amidst the beauty.

Bethany, Vermont

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