Glastenbury, Vermont, 1936. Three women murdered in a single month, each with the same clean cut across the throat and a different piece of themselves missing. A local constable who knows everyone in town and can't find the killer. A medical examiner who discovers something during an autopsy that frightens him enough to board a night train to Boston without telling anyone why.

He never arrives.

What follows is an investigation that moves on two tracks ? a state detective sent from outside, methodical and unimpressed by appearances, and a journalist who arrives in disguise, asking questions no one else thought to ask. Between them, they uncover a town that looks ordinary from every angle and is anything but.

Glastenbury's Secret is a classic mystery in the tradition of 1930s American noir, with the atmospheric dread of New England winter, a killer hiding in the most unexpected place, and a final revelation that reframes everything that came before it.

For readers who like their mysteries cold, their small towns unsettling, and their answers earned.