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The young girl who brought Brattleboro police lieutenant Joe Gunther an old, abandoned bird nest knew it was no ordinary nest, and upon examination, Joe wasn't about to argue. Interwoven with the straw, sticks, and grass was a thick hank of human hair. But who and where was the victim? What was the... More

Abraham Fuller died of a gunshot wound that took twenty years to do the job. A hermit in rural Vermont, he'd kept to himself, but when the old damage finally causes a fatal aneurysm, Detective Joe Gunther decides to learn more about Abraham Fuller--and whomever wanted him dead. Gunther's crew combs ... More

An overworked sheriff and a string of condo burglaries at a luxurious upstate ski resort have Lt. Joe Gunther and the newly-minted Vermont Bureau of Investigation digging deep for clues. But it doesn't take long for Joe to find the most likely thief missing -- and his girlfriend dead. As the complic... More

A back-to-nature cult has almost taken over the town where Joe Gunther was raised. Returning for a visit Joe becomes involved in a sudden outbreak of violence, when five die in a house fire and a man is stabbed to death. A shrewd and shambling detective, Lieutenant Joe Gunther of the Brattleboro Pol... More

Open Season is Archer Mayor's debut novel that first introduced Joe Gunther. Why did that staid old lady blow his head off with a shotgun? Jamie's atomized neck was enough to make even the most hardened cop wince. Obviously a setup, thinks Detective Joe Gunther, but the crime soon takes on even m... More

The body in a backwoods Vermont quarry has been stripped of all identifiers, except for dental work clearly done outside the U.S., and toes tattooed with Cyrillic lettering. From this enigmatic start, "The Disposable Man" has Joe Gunther entering a paranoid twilight constructed by aging members of t... More

At four in the morning, Detective Lieutenant Joe Gunther learns that Gail, his long-time girlfriend who he had left just hours before, has been raped and beaten. Despite churning emotions and possible improprieties, Joe is allowed to investigate the case. Because of her high visibility, the atta... More

The attack is swift, brutal, and devastating. The house of a Chinese restaurant owner is broken into. His daughter raped, he and his wife victimized. Police lieutenant Joe Gunther is plagued by questions. Where did the break-in team come from? Why did they choose this target? Is this just the beginn... More

Joe Gunther puts a murder investigation on hold to help his girlfriend solve her father's mysterious death. Torn between his conscience and his heart, Gunther finds that betrayal and loyalty are often a matter of viewpoint.... More

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 f... More

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 darkn... More

The call to Detective Willy Kunkle came from the NYPD. Willy's ex-wife, Mary, had been found dead in her New York apartment and he was asked to provide the next-of-kin ID. Although he hadn't been in touch with Mary since their divorce, Willy knew he was the only one left to vouch for her remains. No... More

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 Review. Now in a suspenseful new novel, Mayor's p... More

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 qui... More

Crosscut is the very first short story from Archer Mayor's much-loved Joe Gunther series.Going into the previously unexplored history of VBI Detective Sammie Martens, Archer Mayor reveals the story of how Sammie first met Joe Gunther and Willie Kunkel. Sammie Martens, raised by a single mother in a ... More

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... More

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 Rus... More

A minor Internal Affairs investigation leads detective Joe Gunther to the hard-luck town of Bellows Falls, Vermont. Soon, rumors of police corruption, drug dealing, spousal abuse, and murder spread through the streets. As Gunther struggles to separate fact from fiction, he uncovers a regional narcot... More

Joe Gunther, head of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, gets the call that every law enforcer hates -- a fellow officer has been killed in the line of duty. Gunther is brought in not only to find the killer, but also to shut down a drug- running operation. ... More

Vermont police detective Joe Gunther faces a twisted and far-reaching case involving the murder of a trucker, the death of a blackmailing hooker, and the threat of deadly toxins. The man lies dead in the middle of the railroad tracks, head and hands amputated by an onrushing freight train. Dressed ... More

"Towering high above Vermont ski country, Mt. Mansfield's arctic crags have doomed many a soul - but none more hideously than the man found stone-cold dead and frozen stiff, wedged into the mountain ice." "This, Gunther's first assignment as head of the new Vermont Bureau of Investigation, is a toug... More

"When heroin traffickers establish a vast and swift pipeline into nearly every corner of Vermont, Joe Gunther's Bureau of Investigations is called on to stem the tide. With pressure building from politicians and resentment burgeoning in the ranks of rival investigative units, Joe's team is forced to... More

The third outing for Vermont cop Joe Gunther. A murdered stockbroker sets a sticky case into motion for Lt. Gunther. Three bodies later, Gunther must unravel a sinister puzzle involving drugs, a naive young police officer, and someone bent on revenge.... More

The IX Corps of the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF) achieved a complete tactical surprise of the Turkish defenders with its landing on 6 August 1915. Yet, despite a huge superiority in resources and a ten-to-one advantage in men, the IX Corps failed to obtain its planned objectives. ... More

SWASHBUCKLING FANTASY features excerpts from 10 series by bestselling and critically acclaimed authors such as Margaret Petersen Haddix, author of the Shadow Children series, D.J. MacHale, author of the Pendragon series, Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies and Holly Black, author of Valiant. This onl... More