Richard Stockford

Past Perfect Richard Stockford

When an inexplicable crime wave hits quiet Bangor, Maine, Thomas Clipper must separate truth from lies and figure out how all the pieces of this puzzle fit together. A sudden rash of bank robberies. A series of apparent terrorist attacks. A forty-year-old mystery. The bank robberies and terrorist attacks keep the city terrified and the police department on edge--but are the perpetrators really who they say they are? And an out-of-control group of militiamen, led by a man who thinks Thomas Clipper can't do his job, has decided to take matters into their own hands--but one of them may not be who he says he is, either. Meanwhile, Clipper's girlfriend picks her way through the forty-year-old case of the missing matriarch of a prominent local family--and someone involved with Clipper's current cases knows what happened to her. What happened before always bleeds into what comes after. And sometimes it turns out the past was not as perfect as it seemed.