“Gunther lived in a converted carriage house tucked behind a huge Victorian pile on one of Brattleboro’s residential streets. The town was littered with such ornate buildings, in both the high-and low-rent districts—remnants of a past industrial age when New England and its dozens of sooty redbrick communities pumped their commodities into a growing, hungry, affluent society. Now the former showpiece homes of bosses and middle managers ran the gamut from private residences to run-down apartment ...buildings, depending on how the town’s neighborhoods had settled out.It was late, and Sammie knew she had no real reason for being here, that nothing could be gained from it, but the lights showing through Gunther’s windows encouraged her nevertheless. After all, it was the nature of Joe’s character, and of how he’d encouraged them all to speak freely with him, that had prompted her to come here in the first place.She swung out of the car into the sharp evening air and closed the door softly behind her.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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