Read Series: Joe Gunther
by Author Archer Mayor
Chat (2007)
Intriguing plots, complex characters, and a vivid landscape are the foundation of Archer Mayor's award-winning New England thrillers. Now in this suspenseful new novel two investigations will lead Mayor's popular hero Joe Gunther to the shady realm of Internet chat rooms, where relationships are ...
Bellows Falls (2012)
This series seems to be a reliable source of believable and engaging police procedurals that highlight the rural environment of Vermont. Among the four I’ve read out of 25 in the set of tales featuring Joe Gunther of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, I sampled the first, last, and a couple in...
Fruits of the Poisonous Tree (2013)
1994, #5 Lt. Joe Gunther, Brattlesboro VT; police procedural. Joe finds his life turned upside down when his long-time girlfriend Gail is raped and beaten in her home, only hours after Joe has left her. The effects of the rape on both her and on him are carefully explored, but the main focus is o...
The Marble Mask (2013)
#11 Joe Gunther, Special Agent In Charge, Vermont Bureau of Investigation; police procedural/thriller.Canadian and Vermont locations, the French mob and Hell's Angels, World War 2 commandos, and a frozen corpse enliven the first case for the new VBI, as Joe and friends (police agencies, Canadiens...
The Skeleton's Knee (2013)
One of Mayor's earlier stories. Very good murder mystery set primarily in Brattleboro, Vermont, a town in S.E. Vermont on the Connecticut River. Joe Gunther, veteran policeman, is called in to investigate the curious death of a recluse living off a back road in W. Brattleboro. During the course o...
Scent of Evil (2013)
The third Joe Gunther novel, this begins with the discovery of a young, upcoming stockbroker murdered in a coldly brutal fashion. Gunther looks into the man’s lifestyle – drugs and a lot of sex – and before you know it, three other people are dead, including a disgraced police officer.This is ex...
The Disposable Man (2013)
1998, #9 Lt. Joe Gunther, Brattleboro VT; police procedural/spy thriller. A dead body in an abandoned quarry leads Joe and his crew on a convoluted journey into the cold war past, the current Russian Mob, and a generally interesting exploration of lying and truth-telling, friendship and shared ex...
Borderlines (2011)
It seemed appropriate, having just moved to Vermont, that I should read one of Archer Mayor’s Joe Gunther mysteries, set in this beautiful state. It turned out to be an excellent story too. This is the second Joe Gunther story, though it seemed that there was already lots of back story, describi...
Gatekeeper (2013)
I have always enjoyad Archer Mayor's Joe Gunther series but I don't think this is one of the best. For one thing, it just kind of ENDs with a quick rundown of where the cast of characters is at that point. The thing i like most about the series is that Mayor, for the most part, gets Vermont right...
The Surrogate Thief (2005)
I picked this book up more or less at random from among the Archer Mayor books on offer at the Public Library to read as part of my Bump Memorial Library research. (I have been rereading sample books from a number of mystery writers whose series we/I have enjoyed in the past — and, in some cases,...
The Dark Root (2012)
This is a difficult review to write. I am a big fan of Archer Mayor. The first 2 novels of his I’d read, “Red Herring” and ‘3 Can Keep a Secret,” hooked me big time. I was shocked that Mr. Mayor is not up there with the more well-known authors of the world like Baldacci, Connelly, Patterson, etc…...
Tucker Peak (2013)
Finished reading: January ? 2015 "Cat's out of the bag. You nail this bastard or I'll make you sorry you didn't."(view spoiler)[Tucker Peak is one of those crime paperbacks that you buy cheap and later forget all about... The consequence that this one has been on my TBR shelf for way too long. I...
The Ragman's Memory (2013)
I am obsessively plowing through this guy's output. They are police procedurals set in and around Brattleboro, Vt. This one is particularly good. A couple are clunkers, like "Occam's (Mammy-Tammy) Razor," which I am wishing would just end already.The hero is Joe Gunther, a Brattleboro cop (and la...
St. Albans Fire (2013)
ST. ALBANS FIRE (Police Proc-Vermont/NJ-Cont) – VGMayor, Archer – 16th in seriesMysterious Press, 2005- HardcoverVermont Bureau of Investigation Agent Joe Gunthur is called out to the scene of a barn fire; an arson that became a murder with the discovery of a young man's body. As the investigati...
The Sniper's Wife (2003)
Leaving the relative calm of Vermont, Detective Willy Kunkle must confront his past as he seeks revenge for the death of his ex-wife in the back alleys of New York City. Labeled an accidental overdose, her death is considered routine by the NYPD. But Willy’s investigation points to foul play. Now...
The Price of Malice (2009)
Joe Gunther, a continuing character who is a member of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, searches for the killer of 32-year old male pedophile. Joe also tries to help his girlfriend Lyn Silva find out what happened to her father and brother who vanished from their boat off the New England coa...
Red Herring (2010)
In a wonderfully complex novel that holds the reader's attention from the start, three murders occur in Vermont with little to tie them together.Joe Gunther and his team of investigators find drops of blood at the crime scenes that have nothing to do with the victims and the victims themselves sh...