Top Cop Kills

"I am full of admiration for your wonderful grasp of the details and intricacies of the world of town government and life in Watertown. You know so much and this feels like such a vivid and compelling world that you've created. I admire the epic sweep of the novel, covering as it does almost forty years. Throughout there is a wonderful sense of the shifting manners and mores of the periods that the characters are passing through, as they move from that time when the nuclear family ruled to the much more complicated arrangements that followed.... I particularly admire the character of Grady, who feels genuine dangerous and threatening and as if he might, in the extremity of his anger and despair, do almost anything."

Margot Livesey

Author of THE FLIGHT OF GEMMA HARDY

and THE BOY IN THE FIELD

"A fascinating look at the power struggles, grievances, feuds, and bizarre shenanigans that bubble beneath the surface of small-city government. As a new resident of the town in which this gripping, well-researched novel is set, I was amazed at all I learned about local history-and human nature."

Eileen Pollack

Author of A PERFECT LIFE

"A place for everything and everything in its place. Top Cop Kills begins as a type of compulsive manifesto offering a structured accounting of a particular locale, its history and those who inhabit, practically down to the last nail hammered into the last board. This literary conceit works extremely well as the plot switches and progresses. Each evolution continues to maintain an order which is perceived by the character(s) as utter necessity, yet could also be construed as [dis-order] parceled out via various factions and means (think of a child from a decent family chucking it all to become a cult leader). Henry has penned an ambitious story that held me to the end in its tight grip."

Susan Tepper

Author of CONFESS and WHAT DRIVES MEN

"I was so engrossed that I read it in more or less one sitting. You've accomplished something with this book that seems original and compelling. It is at once both a character driven story of rivalry and an incredibly precise (and well researched) portrait of the inner workings of a town."

Frederick Reiken

Author of DAY FOR NIGHT