Death of a hired man

the long version

"In his newest adventure, Mel Pickett, a retired police officer from Toronto, once again becomes involved in police work when a body is discovered in the cabin that he owns.". "The day shift at the Ontario Provincial Police station has just come on duty when they receive a call: a homicide at Mel Pickett's log cabin on Larch River. Sergeant Wilkie is relieved to find that the victim is not Mel but Norbert Thompson, a local "hired man" who had been renting Pickett's cabin. Just as Wilkie starts looking for a motive, Pickett arrives in town and learns of the murder. His immediate thought is, Was he the intended victim?". "Sergeant Wilkie and ex-Sergeant Pickett pursue their investigations separately, but each keeps a watchful eye on the other. Wilkie's lead brings him to rural Ontario, where Thompson used to work as a hired man on his brother's farm. Pickett looks for the killer among all the violent men who have threatened to get by him as they were led off to jail. Will they be able to catch the killer before he or she strikes again.?"--BOOK JACKET.