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  • Published: 16 July 2019
  • ISBN: 9781640092037
  • Imprint: Catapult
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $45.00

White River Burning

A Dave Gurney Novel: Book 6




"John Verdon writes grown–up detective novels, by which I mean stories with intelligent plots, well–developed characters and crimes that have social consequences. White River Burning, featuring the author's brainy gumshoe–for–hire, Dave Gurney, checks all these boxes." —The New York Times Book Review

Tensions have been running high in White River as it approaches the anniversary of a fatal shooting of a black motorist by a local police officer. The polarized city is on edge, confronted with angry demonstrations, arson, and looting. In the midst of the turmoil, a White River police officer is shot dead by an unknown sniper. As the town spirals out of control, local authorities approach Dave Gurney to conduct an independent investigation of the shooting. White River Burning is the most provocative and timely book yet by the author hailed by The New York Times as "masterly."

  • Published: 16 July 2019
  • ISBN: 9781640092037
  • Imprint: Catapult
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $45.00

About the author

John Verdon

John Verdon is a former Manhattan advertising executive who lives with his wife in the mountains of upstate New York.  His first two Dave Gurney novels, Think of a Number and Shut Your Eyes Tight, are both international bestsellers.

http://www.johnverdon.net

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