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Title: Cold Ground: When Crime Reaches a Dying Vermont Mill Town

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 23rd Oct 2026 - Milo is a brindle mutt who Decker adopted from the Windham County shelter fourteen months ago. Having spent twenty-three years in Special Forces and intelligence work, Jack Decker came to Garrison Falls seeking a quiet life. He bought a white Cape Cod on River Road, refinished the oak floors hiding under the carpet, and started building the kind of routines he once avoided on purpose: a morning walk through the alders, a mug of coffee, a dog.Then Milo finds Leonard Briggs, who ran the town’s auto parts store, face-down in eight inches of the Garrison River. His shoes are missingGarrison Falls has already lost a great deal. Its paper mill closed in 1987 after ninety years, and the population has since fallen from 8,000 to about 4,200. The seven-story Lockwood Mill stands empty, its future argued over so often it has become a kind of civic religion. Whitewashed storefronts line Main Street like a smile with missing teeth. Yet the town still knows how to look after its own. Neighbor Frank Sobieski splits wood and trades observations over the fence. Bookseller Margaret Cho orders what her customers want. Police Chief Carmen Reyes runs her small department with quiet precision and has little patience for a civilian who keeps behaving like a detective. “Stop doing cop things,” she tells him.When a high school student goes missing and a business on Mill Street never seems to open its doors, Decker has to decide how much of his old life he is willing to bring into his new one, and what staying in a place demands of a man who was trained to leave.Jacquard writes the town with affection and a sharp eye for its contradictions: the newcomers who restore its mills but rarely join its civic life, the old-timers who know one another...

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