Snowjob

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Dirty money draws Canadian police chief Reid Bennett and his dog south of the border, where they come up against racism, the moband murder.

Canadian police chief Reid Bennett is back with his faithful dog Sam by his side. This time, the case takes them across the border to Chambers, Vermont, where an old buddy needs Reids help. Doug Ford, a black policeman in the allwhite town, has been charged with murdering the attractive bookkeeper of a local ski resort. Only Reid believes Dougs story that he and the woman were working together to investigate an entrenched money laundering conspiracy. But as new bodies pile up and the mafia rears its ugly head, things start to fall in line with Dougs story. Can Reid untangle the mystery before more blood gets shed He will have to act fastan unseen hand seems willing to stop at nothing to keep its secrets safe.

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A series character worth watching for . . . fast moving, intriguing. Los Angeles Times

Danger, fullbodied characters, and enough detail about police work and survival techniques to complement Bennetts role as the most savvy cop currently in the genre. Library Journal

Author Bio

Ted Wood was born in Shoreham, Sussex, England. Throughout his life, he was a flier, a beat cop, a pin-boy, a soda-jerk, a freight porter, and an advertising hotshot. He also wrote dozens of short stories, hundreds of magazine articles, including two long-running humor columns, television plays, and one musical comedy. He had fourteen books, thirteen of them novels, published in Canada, the United States, Britain, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, and Japan. Wood was the author of the acclaimed Reid Bennett mystery series. As Jack Barnao, he also wrote the John Locke Mysteries: Lockestep, Hammerlocke, and Timelocke.

After being widowed, he married his wife, Mary, in 1975. He was the father of three, stepfather to another three, and granddad to a total of nine, counting steps and one step-step. Wood ran Whitbys Ezra Annes House bed and breakfast in partnership with Mary. He passed away in 2019.