Three Can Keep a Secret

Joe Gunther and his team—the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI)—are
usually called in on major cases by local Vermont enforcement whenever
they need expertise and back-up.  But after the state is devastated by
Hurricane Irene, the police from one end of the state are taxed to their
limits, leaving Joe Gunther involved in an odd, seemingly unrelated
series of cases. In the wake of the hurricane, a seventeen year old
gravesite is exposed, revealing a coffin that had been filled with rocks
instead of the expected remains.  At the same time, an old,
retired state politician turns up dead at his high-end nursing home, in
circumstances that leave investigators unsure that he wasn’t murdered. 
And a patient who calls herself The Governor has walked away from a
state mental facility during the post-hurricane flood. It turns out that
she was indeed once “Governor for a Day,” over forty years ago, but
that she might have also been falsely committed and drugged to keep her
from revealing something that she saw all those years ago.  Amidst the
turmoil and the disaster relief, it’s up to Joe Gunther and his team to
learn what really happened with the two corpses—one missing—and what
secret “The Governor” might have still locked in her brain that links
them all.