Apartment 12 — Geoffrey A. Feller

Natalie Dvorak #19:Word of a drug trafficking scheme sends Detective-Sergeant Natalie Dvorak of the Vermont State Police on an undercover assignment. She poses as the newest tenant in a low-income apartment building to find out which resident is supposed to accept and move a package of valuable hashish. All the police know is where and when the handoff is to take place; Natalie's question is who among the eleven tenants has been recruited. With help from the apartment building's night manager, an ex-prizefighter, Natalie assesses the various prospective drug couriers. Disguised as a frumpy older woman, Natalie meets a variety of people who either had money and lost it or never had money to begin with. Could one of the casual drug users or small time dealers be looking to move up to something more profitable and dangerous? And with emotions running high at Maple Leaf Estates what could compromise Natalie's investigation or even blow her cover?