Archer Mayor

Mystery fans have a treat in store when Archer Mayor, author of the highly acclaimed, Vermont-based mystery series featuring detective Joe Gunther, returns to Phoenix Books. Mayor will be reading from and autographing his new novel, Tag Man. Archer Mayor's Joe Gunther series has been described by the ... (more)Chicago Tribune as "the best police procedurals being written in America." Mayor is also the 2004 winner of the New England Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Fiction—the first time a writer of crime literature has been so honored. In addition, Mayor is a death investigator for Vermont's Chief Medical Examiner, and a Deputy Sheriff for Windham County, VT.

Mystery fans have a treat in store when Archer Mayor, author of the highly acclaimed, Vermont-based mystery series featuring detective Joe Gunther, returns to Phoenix Books. Mayor will be reading from and autographing his new novel, Red Herring. Archer Mayor's Joe Gunther series has been described by ... (more)the Chicago Tribune as "the best police procedurals being written in America." Mayor is also the 2004 winner of the New England Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Fiction—the first time a writer of crime literature has been so honored. In addition, Mayor is a death investigator for Vermont's Chief Medical Examiner, and a Deputy Sheriff for Windham County, VT.

Like the swallows to Capistrano, each year Archer Mayor returns to Concord with another exciting Joe Gunther mystery. This year, Joe and his team go through some changes as they try once again to keep Vermont safe for tourists and locals alike. Red Herring features a character named for a lucky fan who ... (more)lives in Concord!

Mystery fans have a treat in store when Archer Mayor, author of the highly acclaimed, Vermont-based mystery series featuring detective Joe Gunther, returns to Phoenix Books to read from and autograph his new novel, The Price of Malice. Archer Mayor's Joe Gunther series has been described by the Chicago ... (more)Tribune as "the best police procedurals being written in America." Mayor is also the 2004 winner of the New England Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Fiction—the first time a writer of crime literature has been so honored. In addition, Mayor is a death investigator for Vermont's Chief Medical Examiner, and a Deputy Sheriff for Windham County, VT. "Archer Mayor is as solid as Barre granite when it comes to producing a strong story with compelling characters," says Phoenix owner Michael DeSanto. This event is free and open to the public.

Our favorite raconteur and wit is back with another fabulous Joe Gunther novel. Archer Mayor is a master of the police procedural, and his events are always a blast.

Archer Mayor lives in Newfane, VT. He writes full time & volunteers as a firefighter & EMT. Archer is also a death investigator for the state medical examiner & a part-time police officer for the Bellows Falls Police Dept. He won the NEIBA award for Best Fiction in 2004.

Perennial favorite Archer Mayor returns to sign his latest novel, "Catch". Joe and the VBI are brought in to catch a cop killer and bring down a major drug running operation flowing through the state. Go Joe!

Archer Mayor returns to the Norwich Bookstore with the nineteenth novel in his popular Joe Gunther detective series. Connecting the dots between drug running along the Maine coast, a police officer shot during a routine traffic stop in northwestern Vermont, and Joe’s new sweetheart’s own personal ... (more)tragedy combine for a page-turning story told as only Archer can. As the New York Times Book Review says, “Mayor is a devil of a plotter.”

The mayor of mystery, Archer Mayor, is back with another book in the Joe Gunther series. At the start of Mayor's fine 19th Joe Gunther novel (after 2007's Chat), Vermont deputy sheriff Brian Sleuter gets shot in the temple while making a routine traffic stop near the Canadian border. The video camera ... (more)on Sleuter's cruiser taped the murder, so it appears to be a simple case, but Mayor never makes things simple. Since the pair that Sleuter stopped have a drug history, Joe Gunther, head of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, coordinates with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Boston. In a smash-bang arrest attempt, one suspect is killed, the other escapes. Joe follows him to Maine, where a drug distributor was recently murdered, drawing Joe and his staff into a fight for control of the New England drug trade and a vengeful family feud.

Archer Mayor will be at The Galaxy Bookshop on Tuesday, October 14 to read from his eighteenth Joe Gunther Mystery, The Catch!
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The Catch: Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation power a long running, top notch policing series. Joe, now head of the VBI and exploring a new relationship with a woman maybe able to deal with him being a cop, is brought in when a fellow policeman is killed in the line of duty. Moving drugs ... (more)along a corridor by land and maybe by sea challenges Joe and his team as well.

The Catch: Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation power a long running, top notch policing series. Joe, now head of the VBI and exploring a new relationship with a woman maybe able to deal with him being a cop, is brought in when a fellow policeman is killed in the line of duty. Moving drugs ... (more)along a corridor by land and maybe by sea challenges Joe and his team as well.