Rainbow's End

She's Baa-a-ack! With more headaches for Chief Gus Haddock

In Book 1 of the Swamp Yankee Mysteries, the 'Glitter Girl' Janine Stone created all kinds of trouble for Chief of Police Gus Haddock in Little Penwick, Rhode Island: the smallest town in the smallest state.

She managed to escape when Chief Haddock and his force broke up her human smuggling ring. But in the newest entry in the Swamp Yankee Mystery series, Janine is back in town. And that means trouble is afoot.

After barely escaping assault by auto, Chief Gus determines that Janine is back in town, and looking for the money she is owed for setting up her smuggling ring. Most of her compatriots from that crime ring are in jail, but somewhere in Little Penwick there's a pot of cash with Janine's name on it.

So Janine is looking for her cash and the police are looking for her. But life in Little Penwick doesn't stop. Gus' significant other, Maggie Wells, announces she's pregnant. Maggie's new women's support center in Providence is having some problems, and Gus needs to hire two new cops.

It's another page-turning small-town cop mystery from award-winning author James Y. Bartlett, who has also written the amusing Hacker Golf Mystery series and the epic historical novel, Year of the Sheep about the Highland Clearances in Scotland.