Deadline — Gerry Boyle

This is hardworking Maine, poverty Maine, where the local economy of the town of Androscoggin is ruled by the paper mill ... It's where Jack McMorrow, a former New York Times metro reporter has come to take over the local weekly ... When a seemingly friendless and ineffective staff photographer is found drowned in the river, McMorrow wonders why, and wonders why the local police don't wonder more ... The rhythms of the weekly newspaper work a wonderful counterpoint to the building tension of McMorrow's investigation, and the writing is sharp and evocative without being showy."
--Washington Post Book World