Following his best-selling essay collections Detective in the Dooryard and Dawn in the Dooryard, and the hilarious Got Warrants, retired Maine police officer Tim Cotton has turned his keyboard to fiction. Cole Miller is a retired officer reeling from the recent death of his wife. He is drawn back to the law by the case of a repeat offender who is allowed to remain free--and continue to carry out despicable acts--by a loophole in the system. Sipping Darkness is a novel about the often shady line between good and evil, and about the men and women who walk that line to keep the darkness at bay.