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Archer Mayor is the New York Times bestselling author of the police procedural series featuring detective Joe Gunther. In addition to his writing, Mayor is a death investigator for Vermont's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and a detective for the Windham County Sheriff's Office. He is a past winner of the New England Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Fiction--the first time a writer of crime literature has been so honored.

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Borderlines (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 2)
Borderlines (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 2)
by Archer Mayor
Lt. Joe Gunther is in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom investigating a minor embezzling case. It’s a pleasant distraction, and a chance to reconnect with old friends, but when a house fire reveals itself to be arson, compounded by murder, Gunther can’t help but investigate. Suddenly, he finds himself enmeshed in a web of animosity between...
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Bury the Lead: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series Book 29)
Bury the Lead: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series Book 29)
by Archer Mayor
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 team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI). They quickly have a suspect, Mick Durocher, and...
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Presumption of Guilt: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series Book 27)
Presumption of Guilt: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series Book 27)
by Archer Mayor
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 to investigate an old, very cold, missing persons case that has now been reclassified as...
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Proof Positive: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 25)
Proof Positive: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 25)
by Archer Mayor
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, crushed beneath his own belongings. But what at first glance looks to be a tragic...
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Bomber's Moon: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series Book 30)
Bomber's Moon: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series Book 30)
by Archer Mayor
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 you can see at night can also see you. Often with dire consequences.Bomber's Moon is Archer...
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Scent of Evil (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 3)
Scent of Evil (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 3)
by Archer Mayor
When the body of a fast-living young stockbroker is found in a shallow grave, suspicion first falls on a cuckolded policeman. Lt. Joe Gunther investigates the increasingly bizarre details of the crime, but finds that he’s too far behind events to prevent a second murder. Indeed, whoever is responsible always seems to be a few steps...
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Marked Man: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series Book 32)
Marked Man: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series Book 32)
by Archer Mayor
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 mansion, a 150,000 square foot converted mill, surrounded by his loving, attentive family. Or so it...
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The Skeleton's Knee (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 4)
The Skeleton's Knee (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 4)
by Archer Mayor
When a reclusive market gardener's death proves to stem from a 20 year-old bullet wound, Lt. Joe Gunther is presented with a very cold homicide to solve. But who was the victim exactly? A deeply private man eking out an ascetic existence from a hardscrabble mountain field, Abraham Fuller was virtually unknown to his neighbors, in the...
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Fruits of the Poisonous Tree (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 5)
Fruits of the Poisonous Tree (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 5)
by Archer Mayor
Gail Zigman, town selectwoman and Joe Gunther's companion of many years, is raped, and the detective finds himself caught between the media, local politicians, and a network of well-meaning victims' rights advocates as he tries to put his own feelings aside and follow the trail of evidence.Every lead seems to point to a single, obvious...
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The Dark Root (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 6)
The Dark Root (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 6)
by Archer Mayor
A brutal home invasion shocks Brattleboro's small Asian community, but no one's talking. Undeterred, Joe Gunther digs deeper and discovers a cross-border smuggling route carrying drugs, contraband, and illegal aliens into and out of Canada. Operating below the radar for years, competition between underworld rivals is bringing it into the...
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The Ragman's Memory (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 7)
The Ragman's Memory (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 7)
by Archer Mayor
A small girl brings Joe Gunther a bird’s nest—made partially of human hair. In the search to put a body, and an identity, to the hair’s owner, Joe comes upon an unexplained death, a grisly murder, and a sudden disappearance. All seem to be entangled in a puzzling web of municipal corruption, blackmail, and industrial espionage. A...
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Bellows Falls (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 8)
Bellows Falls (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 8)
by Archer Mayor
Joe Gunther is seconded to the neighboring town of Bellows Falls to investigate harassment allegations against a fellow officer. What begins as a seemingly open-and-shut case comes to look more and more like a frame job as Gunther doggedly pursues the truth, and soon he finds himself feeling around the edges of a statewide drug...
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The Disposable Man (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 9)
The Disposable Man (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 9)
by Archer Mayor
When a local quarry yields up a garroted body with bad dental work and toes tattooed in Cyrillic, Joe Gunther figures it for a Russian mafia killing, rare as that might be in Vermont. But it's so very… tidy. So very… professional. Then the CIA calls, inviting Gunther down to Washington for some friendly “assistance” with his case....
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Occam's Razor (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 10)
Occam's Razor (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 10)
by Archer Mayor
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 things don't quite add up, and the math in this case is all kinds of wrong. Add a toxic waste...
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The Marble Mask (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 11)
The Marble Mask (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 11)
by Archer Mayor
Joe Gunther, a Brattleboro, Vermont, cop, is the head of the new Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI), a joint task force charged with statewide responsibility for major crimes. In The Marble Mask, the VBI's first case takes the force north to Stowe, where a 50-year-old corpse has turned up in a crevasse on Mt. Mansfield. Some of the...
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Tucker Peak (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 12)
Tucker Peak (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 12)
by Archer Mayor
An overworked sheriff and a string of condo burglaries at a luxurious ski resort have Lt. Joe Gunther and the newly-minted Vermont Bureau of Investigation digging deep for clues. But it doesnt take long for Joe to find the most likely thief missingand his girlfriend dead. As the complications mount, from drug dealing to environmental...
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Gatekeeper (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 14)
Gatekeeper (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 14)
by Archer Mayor
Vermont detective Joe Gunther vows to stop the flow of drugs into his beloved state when in the course of a 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 granddaughter of political bigwigs dies of an overdose.
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St. Albans Fire (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 16)
St. Albans Fire (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 16)
by Archer Mayor
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 across the Green Mountain State evolve into the most shocking series of murders the bucolic...
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Chat (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 18)
Chat (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 18)
by Archer Mayor
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 formed and broken, and nothing is as it...
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Paradise City: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 23)
Paradise City: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 23)
by Archer Mayor
Now a New York Times bestselling series, "Even in beautiful Vermont, Archer Mayor finds shadows . . . and his detective, Joe Gunther, finds a way to beat them back." —NPRJoe 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...
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The Catch: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 19)
The Catch: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 19)
by Archer Mayor
Joe Gunther, a Vermont cop for most of his adult life and now the head of the VBI (Vermont Bureau of Investigation) gets the call that every law enforcement person hates and every friend and family member of a policeman fears -- a cop has been shot and killed. A deputy sheriff was shot to death during a routine traffic stop on a dark...
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Three Can Keep a Secret: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 24)
Three Can Keep a Secret: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 24)
by Archer Mayor
Archer Mayor's New York Times bestselling Joe Gunther series returns with a complex case involving two corpses, one escaped mental patient, and a long-held secret that binds them together"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." —Ben FranklinJoe Gunther and his team—the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI)—are usually called...
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The Second Mouse (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 17)
The Second Mouse (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 17)
by Archer Mayor
Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for...
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The Price of Malice: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 20)
The Price of Malice: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 20)
by Archer Mayor
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 of the clan would have had the opportunity to kill him, and, as he was involved with both...
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The Surrogate Thief (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 15)
The Surrogate Thief (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 15)
by Archer Mayor
Brattleboro is the epitome of scenic Vermont. Quaint in its architecture and plainspoken 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, postindustrial New England mill town. And yet there is darkness here, too, and nobody knows it...
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Red Herring: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 21)
Red Herring: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 21)
by Archer Mayor
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. However, apart from a single drop of unexplained blood left at each crime scene, there are...
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Tag Man: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 22)
Tag Man: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries Book 22)
by Archer Mayor
"Archer Mayor's Vermont police procedurals are the best thing going..." --New York Times Book ReviewAcross Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high security, alarm-equipped homes to find a Post-it note stuck to their bedside tables reading, "You're it." There is little sign of disturbance...
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The Company She Kept: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series Book 26)
The Company She Kept: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series Book 26)
by Archer Mayor
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 senator and best friend and ally of the current governor, Gail Zigman. At Zigman's personal...
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Trace: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series Book 28)
Trace: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series Book 28)
by Archer Mayor
The Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) has been pulled onto three cases at the same time; meanwhile, VBI head Joe Gunther has to take time off to care for his ailing mother. Those cases are now in the hands of the individual investigators. Sammie Martens is assigned a murder case. The victim is a young woman, the roommate of the...
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