Joe Gunther mysteries
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1) Open season
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A frightened old woman kills a man at her door in the middle of the night and Detective Joe Gunther discovers they were co-jurors on a sensational murder trial three years earlier. Several more vicious assaults make Joe suspect that all of the jurors from that trial are now in danger.
2) Borderlines
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 2
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Detective Joe Gunther is on temporary assignment in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. The discovery of a man's body may indicate the involvement of a back-to-nature cult. Juggling personal problems, disputes between state and local police, animosity between townies and cult members and an increasing number of homicides, Joe moves as fast as he can to solve the crimes.
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In Brattleboro, Vermont, Joe Gunther's detective squad begins to research a hand found in the dirt at a construction site. Before long several more people are dead including one of the town's biggest drug dealers. Working in one of the worst heat waves in a decade, Gunther struggles to figure out the person behind the crimes.
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 4
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A hermit dies in the hospital of a bullet he received twenty years earlier. At his mountaintop home, a skeleton with a bullet hole and a metal knee is found buried in the yard. On the way to the medical examiner's office, the hearse comes under machine gun fire. A long-hidden crime is obviously very much on someone's mind - someone who would love to destroy what little evidence remains. The serial number on the metal knee takes Joe Gunther to Chicago,...
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 5
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In Vermont, Lieutenant Joe Gunther seeks the rapist of his girlfriend, who was attacked shortly after Gunther left her bed. All the signs point to a local drunk who has raped before, but precisely because everything is so obvious, Gunther suspects a copycat. By the author of Borderlines.
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A small town near the Canadian border becomes a battleground for Asian gangs competing for the immigrant trade. Lieutenant Joe Gunther of the Brattleboro, Vermont, police department coordinates several agencies, including the FBI and the Mounties, in an operation to apprehend them. By the author of Fruits of the Poisonous Tree.
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In Brattleboro, Vermont, Lieutenant Joe Gunther juggles several cases, all of which turn out to be connected. There is the murder of a girl runaway, the disappearance of a local activist, the death of a homeless man, and the strangling of a woman due to die anyway. By the author of The Dark Root.
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 8
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A routine call asking Joe Gunther to investigate a seemingly minor complaint against a young officer of the Bellows Falls police department leads to the uncovering of a cauldron of spousal abuse, debauchery, teen crime, drug running, and cold-blooded murder.
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 9
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"An unidentified man is found face down in an abandoned quarry, strangled with a piano wire. The labels have been cut from his clothes, his facial features are Slavic in appearance, and his toes are tattooed with Russian letters. When no one reports any missing persons, and no police agency responds to a fingerprint check, it looks like a dead end for Joe Gunther and his team. But then why are the FBI and the CIA showing such an interest?"--Page 4...
10) Occam's razor
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The discovery of an apparently homeless man's body in downtown Brattleboro leads Detective Joe Gunther and his squad to investigate possible suspects from the down-and-out types in a local bar to gubernatorial candidates in Montpelier.
11) The marble mask
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A frozen body is found on top of Vermont's tallest mountain in middle of winter. Lost hiker or foul play? It's hard to say, until the marble-hard body is thawed out, revealing oddly old-fashioned clothes, an ice-pick wound to the heart, and a Canadian driver's license dating back 50 years.
12) Tucker peak
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Vermont police detective Joe Gunther digs deep for clues that will help him nab a killer, after murder hits the slopes at a posh ski resort.
14) Gatekeeper
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Called in to counter heroin trafficking in Vermont, Joe Gunther's investigation team is pressured by political forces to take high risks including dangerous undercover work and the investigation of a loved one.
16) St. Albans fire
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Young Bobby Cutts enters the family barn to tend to the cows and encounters a nightmare ... suddenly surrounded by fire, Bobby and the entire herd perish in a stampeding, hellish circle of flames. Joe Gunther will meet one of his deadliest opponents to date ... and will need far more than his skills as a policeman. --From publisher description.
17) The second mouse
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On the edge of town Joe Gunther encounters the lifeless body of Michelle Fisher. Her corpse offers him no clues about who she was or how she died. Snapshots and postcards show a woman who laughed hard and lived harder, while diaries reveal a rootless life marred by depression and drink. Suicide seems a reasonable conclusion, but Gunther suspects foul play.
18) Chat
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"When a wintertime car accident leaves his mother and brother seriously injured, Joe Gunther takes a leave of absence to attend to them and investigate the cause of the crash"--Provided by publisher.
19) The catch
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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 country road. From what can been seen on the cruiser's tape recorder of the killers, it is believed that they were a...
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Suspected child predator Wayne Castine was found brutally murdered in Brattleboro, where he was involved with 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 the mother and her 12-year-old daughter - reason to commit murder. Meanwhile, Joe Gunther learns that his girlfriend's father and brother, lost at sea off the Maine coast, might have been...
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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. However, apart from a single drop of unexplained blood left at each crime scene, there are no obvious connections between the victims or the cases. The police are faced with more questions than answers including...
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Across 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, nothing stolen (that anyone admits), only a bit of expensive food eaten as a signature. The press loves the burglar they dub the Tag Man. But who is he? And what is he actually doing?
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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. Meanwhile, in Boston, an elderly woman surprises thieves in her Beacon Hill home and is viciously murdered. The police find that the loot is similar to what's been stolen in Vermont, and it may have the same destination. Word is that someone powerful is purchasing the items in the "Paradise City" of Northampton, Mass. Now...
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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 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...
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During the height of a particularly brutal Vermont winter, a woman's body is found hanging high above the interstate. The woman, found with the word "dyke" carved on her chest is quickly determined to be the victim of a brutal murder. That alone is enough to bring in Joe Gunther and his VBI (Vermont Bureau of Investigation) team. But when the victim is identified not only as a state senator, but as an intimate friend of the governor's, it unleashes...
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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 to investigate an old, very cold, missing persons case that has now been reclassified as murder. The victim was Hank Mitchell, and Gunther must chase down old rumors and speculations who benefited from...
28) Trace
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"The Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) is suddenly swamped. The Bureau has been pulled onto three cases at the same time, while unexpectedly, VBI head Joe Gunther has to take time off to care for his ailing mother."--Book jacket.
29) Bury the lead
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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 team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI). They quickly have a suspect, Mick Durocher, and a confession, but not everyone on the team is convinced. Despite Mick's ready admission, investigators quickly...
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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 you can see at night can also see you. Often with dire consequences. Bomber's Moon is Archer Mayor's latest entry in the Joe Gunther series and it may just be his best yet. Two young women form the heart of this...
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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 heartbreak to learn a decades-old hidden truth. John Rust is arrested for drunk driving by a Vermont state trooper. Looking to find mitigating circumstances, John's lawyer hires private eye Sally Kravitz to...
32) Marked man
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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 mansion, a 150,000 square foot converted mill, surrounded by his loving, attentive family. Or so it seemed at the time. Now Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation team has discovered that almost nothing...
33) Fall guy
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"In Archer Mayor's Fall Guy, a body found in the trunk of a stolen car leads Joe Gunther and his team to crucial evidence in an infamous unsolved case from years past. A high-end stolen car is discovered in Vermont. A car filled with stolen items from a far-flung two state burglary spree. But it's what is in the trunk that brings Joe Gunther and his team from the Vermont Bureau of Investigation. In the trunk is the body of burglar in question - one...