The search for a solution leads inevitably into the long-concealed facts of the man's past, taking Knute to a small Vermont town where he comes face-to-face with an old and painful truth. And where he learns, too, that of all the ways to kill a man, the easiest is to let him do the dirty work himself.

(Key Words: Fiction, Crime, Murder, Mystery Stories, Tobias Wells, Novels, Vermont).