Friends and Enemies

Chief of Police Joe Silva has his hands full when the Mellingham High School Class of 1969 holds its twenty-fifth reunion. Not every member of the class is looking forward to the gathering. Eliot Keogh is returning to his hometown to find the person responsible for sending his father to prison on a false charge. Becka Chase, on the reunion committee, is distracted because the husband of her best friend, Mindy, is trying to revive their long-dead affair. She fears her husband will find out and leave her.The reunion has barely begun when Mindy Rabelard disappears and her husband, Vic, is found near death, apparently the victim of a strange toxin. Joe Silva will have to travel back twenty-five years and fit together a series of interlocking events and crimes to figure out what's going on in Mellingham.Making Chief Silva's problems even tougher is the unspoken rules of men and women working in the paper industry, a world of old guild principles and fierce loyalties.This is book number 4 in the Mellingham series. Number 5 is "A Murderous Innocence."