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Lou ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in texas. Its a fantastic book, much more comprehensive than connie fletchers competing but still good book, what cops know. Home town follows the career of a police officer in the small massachusetts town of northampton. This is a list of romances either contemporary or romantic suspense where the hero or heroine is a cop or sheriff in a small town. The top 10 reasons small towns are better than big cities. Im a police officer in a small town in texas and i have. Take a walk in the shoes of a small town cop and see the world from his unique point of view. As you might expect, the stories run the gamut from heartbreakingly sad to laughoutloud hilarious. Schiavone comments on typical crimes and community policing activities m. Apr 01, 2017 country living editors select each product featured. When twelve inmates pull off an audacious prison break, it liberates more than a thousand convicts into the nearby small town. A books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Other times, the corrupt cop is an absolute monster who loves nothing more than to hurt innocent people.
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Its located somewhere north of interesting and south of scary as shit, where the citizens are strange, the. His six books have won a number of awards, and he was the first to honestly reflect the current realities of the new south africa in his books. To those people who arent aware, and apparently there are more than a few, being from or working in a small town does not cause ignorance. Donald gill is a retired sergeant of the puyallup police department of the state of washington. After six months as a new york city cop she had found an opening in massachusetts. Like many small town police forces, the boothbay harbor police cope with a lot, including a town thats full of empty houses nine months a year, a population that swells in size every summer, people from all over the world passing through, and the continuing ravages of the opioid epidemic. But the sum of all that doesnt compare to what i had to deal with on the night of october 16th, 2012.
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