Archer Mayor

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. He was cited for Excellence in the Arts by the State of Vermont. Mayor has integrated his actual police experiences with intricately detailed plot lines into novels that The New York Times has called "dazzling," and Booklist has said are "among the best cop stories being written today." The result adds a depth, detail, and veracity to his characters and their tribulations that has led The New York Times to call him "The boss man on procedures," and the Arizona Daily Star to write, "Few deliver such well-rounded novels of such consistent high quality." Archer Mayor--who was brought up in the US, Canada and France--has been variously employed as a scholarly editor, a researcher for TIME-LIFE Books, a political advance-man, a theater photographer, a newspaper writer/editor, a lab technician for Paris-Match Magazine in Paris, France, and a medical illustrator. He is a graduate of Yale University. Before turning his hand to fiction, Archer wrote history books.

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Books by Archer Mayor

The Company She Kept: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series)

Release Date: 30 Aug 2016

Price: $8.52

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 sena...more


The Catch: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries)

Release Date: 25 May 2016

Price: $9.79

Joe Gunther gets the call that every law enforcement person hates and every friend and family member of a policeman fears-a cop has been murdered in the line of duty. Deputy Sheriff Brian Sleuter has been shot to death during a routine traffic stop on ...more


Proof Positive: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series)

Release Date: 30 Sep 2014

Price: $1.99

Ben Kendallwas a troubled man. Coming back from Vietnam with PTSD and scars that no oneelse 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, crus...more


Three Can Keep a Secret: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series)

Release Date: 26 Aug 2014

Price: $4.49

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 asecret, if two of them are dead." -Ben Fra...more


Paradise City: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series)

Release Date: 10 Sep 2013

Price: $6.45

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 s...more


Tag Man: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series)

Release Date: 04 Sep 2012

Price: $4.44

"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 ...more


Red Herring: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series)

Release Date: 30 Aug 2011

Price: $5.94

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. Howev...more


The Price of Malice: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series)

Release Date: 28 Sep 2010

Price: $15.02

Joe Gunther's Vermont Bureau of Investigation team is plenty busy trying to solve the grisly murder of Wayne Castine, a suspected child predator who's got mob ties in the area. But Gunther has other pressing, more personal business to attend to: the ol...more


Gatekeeper: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2010

Price: $9.01

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 gr...more


Southern Timberman: The Legacy of William Buchanan

Release Date: 17 Aug 2009

Price: $27.69

In "Southern Timberman," Archer H. Mayor traces the legacy of William Buchanan and the companies he owned along the borders of Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, from his first lumber mill in the early 1880s to the sale of the last company in 1979. Like m...more


St. Alban's Fire: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2009

Price: $7.08

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 acro...more


Chat (Joe Gunther)

Release Date: 01 Nov 2008

Price: $3.79

News travels fast in the small state of Vermont. In this tight-knit society, police officers and investigators proudly maintain a kinship that transcends the boundaries of their jurisdictions. When an unidentified body is found in the peaceful town of ...more


Scent of Evil: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2007

Price: $7.49

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 hes too far behind events to preven...more


Fruits of the Poisonous Tree: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2007

Price: $9.32

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 ...more


The Disposible Man: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2007

Price: $7.29

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, inv...more


Occam's Razor (Joe Gunther Series, Vol. 10)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2007

Price: $8.51

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 d...more


Borderlines: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2007

Price: $8.27

Lt. Joe Gunther is in Vermonts Northeast Kingdom investigating a minor embezzling case. Its 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 cant help bu...more


The Ragman's Memory: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2007

Price: $8.74

A small girl brings Joe Gunther a birds nest-made partially of human hair. In the search to put a body, and an identity, to the hairs owner, Joe comes upon an unexplained death, a grisly murder, and a sudden disappearance. All seem to be entangled in a...more


Open Season: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2007

Price: $5.88

Lt. Joe Gunther of the Brattleboro, Vermont police force has a serious problem: in a community where a decade could pass without a single murder, the body count is suddenly mounting. Innocent citizens are being killedand others set-upseemingly orchestr...more


The Second Mouse (Joe Gunther Mysteries)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2007

Price: $20.96

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The Marble Mask: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2007

Price: $7.49

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, ...more


The Skeleton's Knee: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2007

Price: $8.37

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 hardscr...more


Tucker Peak: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2007

Price: $7.85

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 ...more


Bellows Falls: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2007

Price: $7.29

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 ...more


The Sniper's Wife: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2007

Price: $8.92

The harrowing call comes from the NYPD. Willy's ex-wife, Mary, has been found dead in her Lower East Side apartment and Willy is asked to identify the body. Torn from his beloved Vermont, Willy returns to the city of his hard-drinking youth with misgiv...more


The Surrogate Thief (A Joe Gunther Mystery)

Release Date: 01 Jan 2005

Price: $39.87

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