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Vermont

The Underwater Underside of Vermont

By Archer Mayor

October 18, 2021

From the start, I wanted to make “place” as much a participant in my now 32-volume Joe Gunther series as the humans driving the plots. The books are set in Vermont, so the famously touted beauty and natural drama of that state supplied an easy starting point. But in addition, I wanted to ferret out…

Marked Man by Archer Mayor: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

August 23, 2021

CHAPTER 1  Warren Kitzmiller looked around the large, almost empty morgue, tugging at the sleeve of his starched white lab coat and painfully aware he should be presenting a more detached demeanor. He was standing alone beside a flayed, cold, gray corpse, spread out in a grotesque parody of a post-Thanksgiving feast. It was supine…

“We Love Dogs” by Archer Mayor, author of The Orphan’s Guilt

By Crime HQ

September 28, 2020

Tom Hanks made a charming (and drooly) movie with a dog. Stephen King wrote a big book (followed by a movie) about a dog (if maybe a slightly less endearing one). One of the funniest, most gruesome scenes in A Fish Called Wanda featured dogs. Small ones and one LARGE one. And Lassie. Rin Tin Tin. I…

The Orphan’s Guilt by Archer Mayor: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

September 9, 2020

CHAPTER FOUR Searching the Weeds “Brattleboro Reformer. Rachel Reiling speaking.” “Hi, Rachel. It’s Anne Proctor, from Proctor and Harris? Remember me?” “Sure.” Rachel pulled up her contacts on the screen and rediscovered that Proctor and Harris was a funeral home in Westminster, and thus the source of some biographical tidbits in the past—not that she’d…

Vermont Mystery Authors Archer Mayor and Sarah Stewart Taylor In Conversation 

By Crime HQ

April 21, 2020

Meet Archer Mayor: New York Times-bestselling Vermont crime writer Archer Mayor has written thirty-one books in his Joe Gunther series, about a Vermont police detective who solves crimes in all corners of his native state. He is a past winner of the New England Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Fiction and the latest book…

“Crosscut”: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

July 23, 2019

“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 chaotic household, returns home after leaving…

The Perfect Liar by Thomas Christopher Greene

Book Review: The Perfect Liar by Thomas Christopher Greene

By Doreen Sheridan

January 14, 2019

The Perfect Liar by Thomas Christopher Greene is a compulsively readable domestic thriller that centers on two damaged souls drawn together and living in bliss… until a series of notes on their front door destroys any sense of serenity and forces them both to drastic action. Susannah Garcia is a beautiful, widowed single mother, with a…

Three Can Keep a Secret, a Joe Gunther crime novel by Archer Mayor

Fresh Meat: Three Can Keep a Secret by Archer Mayor

By Kate Lincoln

September 28, 2013

Three Can Keep a Secret by Archer Mayor is the 24th procedural mystery featuring Joe Gunther and the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, in which the team is spread thin, along with the rest of law enforcement, in the disarray following Hurricane Irene (available October 1, 2013). The mountains are alive with secrets. Vermont’s Green Mountains…

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