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Archer Mayor
Full Series List in Order
A Joe Gunther Mystery
1 - Open Season (Sep-1988)2 - Borderlines (Oct-1990)
3 - Scent of Evil (Jun-1992)
4 - The Skeleton's Knee (1993)
5 - Fruits of the Poisonous Tree (Dec-1994)
6 - The Dark Root (1995)
7 - The Ragman's Memory (Dec-1996)
8 - The Bellows Falls (Dec-1997)
9 - The Disposable Man (Nov-1998)
10 - Occam's Razor (Nov-1999)
11 - The Marble Mask (Oct-2000)
12 - Tucker Peak (Nov-2001)
13 - The Sniper's Wife (Oct-2002)
14 - Gatekeeper (Oct-2003)
15 - The Surrogate Thief (Sep-2004)
16 - St. Albans Fire (Oct-2005)
17 - The Second Mouse (Oct-2006)
18 - Chat (Nov-2007)
19 - The Catch (Oct-2008)
20 - The Price of Malice (Oct-2009)
21 - Red Herring (Oct-2010)
22 - Tag Man (Oct-2011)
22.5 - Snow Blind (Apr-2012)
23 - Paradise City (Oct-2012)
24 - Three Can Keep a Secret (Oct-2013)
25 - Proof Positive (Oct-2014)
26 - The Company She Kept (Oct-2015)
27 - Presumption of Guilt (Oct-2016)
28 - Trace (Oct-2017)
29 - Bury the Lead (Sep-2018)
29.5 - Crosscut (Jul-2019)
30 - Bomber's Moon (Sep-2019)
31 - The Orphan's Guilt (Oct-2020)
32 - Marked Man (Oct-2021)
33 - Fall Guy (Oct-2022)
Book List in Order: 35 titles
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Open Season
- Sep-1988
- / Police Procedural
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To tie into the December release of Archer Mayor's Joe Gunther hardcover Fruits of the Poisonous Tree, here is a reissue of the debut novel that first introduced Joe Gunther in 1989--out of print since 1991. Gunther investigates the murder of a juror...
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Borderlines
- Oct-1990
- / Police Procedural
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The second novel in the Joe Gunther re-release promotion finds Gunther in Gannet, Vermont. The quiet town is rocked by violence and murder when five members of a back-to-nature cult die in a suspicious fire....
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Scent of Evil
- Jun-1992
- / Police Procedural
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HOT ON THE SCENT Brattleboro is the picture-perfect Vermont hamlet: leafy, Victorian, safe. Lieutenant Joe Gunther knows better and expects trouble during the long hot summer. But murder? Murder, in a town this size, is never expected, and more su...
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The Skeleton's Knee
- 1993
- / Police Procedural
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A SLOW DEATH Vermont hermit Abraham Fuller kept mum on his gunshot wound. When it finally causes a fatal aneurysm some twenty years later, Detective Joe Gunther decides to investigate--and, for the first time, must leave his rustic Brattleboro bea...
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Fruits of the Poisonous Tree
- Dec-1994
- / Police Procedural
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TERROR AT DAWN The call came at four A.M. An intruder had entered the home of a local woman as she slept. First he bound her and blindfolded her. Then he enjoyed a little knife play...before raping her repeatedly. For Brattleboro detective Joe Gun...
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The Dark Root
- 1995
- / Police Procedural
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ROOT OF ALL EVIL The attack is swift and devastating. The house of a Chinese restaurant owner is broken into by unknown intruders. Brutality, destruction, and rape follow. Now Brattleboro police lieutenant Joe Gunther agonizes over two questions: ...
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The Ragman's Memory
- Dec-1996
- / Police Procedural
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MEMORY MOST MURDEROUS It begins with an abandoned bird's nest; a nest made of hair--human hair. Who is the victim? And what was the cause of death? A trail of grisly clues leads Lt. Joe Gunther to discover the identity in question: a teenage girl ...
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The Bellows Falls
- Dec-1997
- / Police Procedural
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When asked to investigate a small-town police department in Bellows Falls, homicide detective Joe Gunther becomes determined to separate myth from reality as he delves deep into a world of deceit, domestic violence, corrupt cops, drugs, and murder...
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The Disposable Man
- Nov-1998
- / Police Procedural
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FROM RUSSIA WITH MURDER The corpse lies facedown in a deserted quarry, strangled to death with piano wire. The man looks Slavic. There are no identifiers except foreign dental work and cryptic tattoos. Stumped, Gunther wonders what a guy like this...
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Occam's Razor
- Nov-1999
- / Police Procedural
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The body was positioned so that the train neatly obliterated its head and hands. Dressed in a homeless man''s clothes with empty pockets, it might easily be passed-off as an unfortunate John Doe. And yet. Joe Gunther has a knack for knowing when thin...
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The Marble Mask
- Oct-2000
- / Police Procedural
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Joe Gunther, a Brattleboro, Vermont, cop, is the head of the new VermontBureau of Investigation (VBI), a joint task force charged with statewideresponsibility for major crimes. In The Marble Mask, the VBI's first casetakes the force north to Stowe, w...
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Tucker Peak
- Nov-2001
- / Police Procedural
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MURDER IS THE FIRST RESORT A posh spot to ski all day and party all night, Tucker Peak is also undersized and hemorrhaging money. Its worried owners have a risky plan: expand and spend a fortune. But problems brew as environmentalists fiercely pro...
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The Sniper's Wife
- Oct-2002
- / Police Procedural
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The harrowing call comes from the NYPD. Willy's ex-wife, Mary, has been found dead in her Lower East Side apartment and Willy is asked to identify the body. Torn from his beloved Vermont, Willy returns to the city of his hard-drinking youth with misg...
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Gatekeeper
- Oct-2003
- / Police Procedural
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Joe Gunther's picturesque, rustic Vermont is getting darker...and more dangerous. In the course of one week a young heroin addict is gunned down while trying to rob a convenience store, a narcotics dealer is found hanging from a bridge, and the grand...
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The Surrogate Thief
- Sep-2004
- / Police Procedural
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Brattleboro is the epitome of scenic Vermont. Quaint in its architecture and plain spoken in its politics, it dominates the state's southeast corner as both an employment hub and an election year powerhouse-all while looking like a genteel, postindus...
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St. Albans Fire
- Oct-2005
- / Police Procedural
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With Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation team spread thin on assignment everywhere, from the remote dairy county of Northwest Vermont to the slums of Newark, NJ, they''re pushed to their absolute limit when a string of serial arsons a...
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The Second Mouse
- Oct-2006
- / Police Procedural
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Intriguing plots, complex characters, and a landscape come to life are mainstays of Archer Mayor's New England thrillers. With a gift for vivid writing, he has made "an honorable art form of the regional mystery," according to the New York Times Book...
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The Price of Malice
- Oct-2009
- / Police Procedural
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Wayne Castine was found brutally murdered and the murderer remains at large. Castine, a suspected child predator, was killed in Brattleboro where he was involved with a tangled network of an extended family living in a local trailer park. Any member ...
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Red Herring
- Oct-2010
- / Police Procedural
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VBI (Vermont Bureau of Investigation) head Joe Gunther and his team are called in to investigate a series of violent deaths that appear unrelated until telltale clues reveal a linkage between them and that all of the deaths are, in fact, murders. How...
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Snow Blind
- Apr-2012
- / Police Procedural
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Snow Blind is a short story in the Joe Gunther mystery series, by New York Times bestselling author Archer Mayor. A classic Vermont snowstorm, a confused young man, and of course, a crime....
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Paradise City
- Oct-2012
- / Police Procedural
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Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation are alerted to a string of unrelated burglaries across Vermont. Someone, in addition to flatscreens, computers, and stereos, has also been stealing antiques and jewelry. Meanwhile, in...
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Three Can Keep a Secret
- Oct-2013
- / Police Procedural
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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...
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Proof Positive
- Oct-2014
- / Police Procedural
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Ben Kendall was a troubled man. Coming back from Vietnam with PTSD and scars that no one else could see, he hid away from the world, filling his house with an ever-increasing amount of stuff, until finally, the piles collapsed and he was found dead, ...
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The Company She Kept
- Oct-2015
- / Police Procedural
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During the height of a harsh Vermont winter, the body of a woman is found hanging from the steel-mesh retaining net lining the cliffs along the interstate. She was brutally murdered, with the word "dyke" carved into her chest. She was also a state se...
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Presumption of Guilt
- Oct-2016
- / Police Procedural
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A forty-year-old skeleton is found encased in a concrete slab at a recently decommissioned nuclear energy site. It becomes a case for the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) and its leader, Joe Gunther, since they have the resources and the ability...
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Bury the Lead
- Sep-2018
- / Police Procedural
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Joe Gunther and the VBI team are investigating a murder and an arson case―both potentially related to an outbreak of ebola. When the body of a young woman is found near a trail at a popular ski mountain, the case falls to Joe Gunther and his tea...
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Bomber's Moon
- Sep-2019
- / Police Procedural
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The murder of a small-time drug dealer snowballs into the most complex case ever faced by Joe Gunther and his VBI team. It is said a bright and clear bomber’s moon is the best asset to finding one’s target. But beware what you wish for: What y...
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The Orphan's Guilt
- Oct-2020
- / Police Procedural
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In Archer Mayor's intriguing new Vermont-based mystery, The Orphan's Guilt, a straightforward traffic stop snowballs into a homicide investigation after Joe Gunther and his fellow investigators peel back layer upon layer of history and personal heart...
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Marked Man
- Oct-2021
- / Police Procedural
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In Archer Mayor's Marked Man, the death of a local millionaire becomes suspicious when Joe Gunther learns that he was not who he claimed. A year ago, local philanthropist and millionaire Nathan Lyon died a natural death in his sprawling mansio...
