Fruits of the Poisonous Tree
The Orphan’s Guilt
Bomber's Moon
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.
Bury the Lead
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, […]
Presumption of Guilt
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 […]
The Company She Kept
Library Journal 04/15/2015 One snowy morning, Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation team are brought in when the body of a state senator is found strung up above the interstate with the word dyke carved in her chest. Talk about authentic; when he's not writing this New York Times best-selling series, Mayor serves […]
Fall Guy
Proof Positive: A Joe Gunther Novel
★ 07/21/2014 Over 26 years and 25 books (most recently, 2013’s Three Can Keep a Secret), Joe Gunther has moved from police detective in Brattleboro, Vt., to special agent of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, and, as he has grown in stature, so has the series. During the Vietnam War, Signal Corps photographer Benjamin Kendall […]
Three Can Keep a Secret
Publishers Weekly 08/19/2013 Hurricane Irene and its devastating aftermath provide the backdrop for Mayor’s enjoyable 24th Joe Gunther novel (after 2012’s Paradise City). During the chaos of the storm, mental patient Carolyn Barber (aka the Governor) goes missing from the Vermont State Hospital. Shortly thereafter, a once-prominent politician is found dead in his retirement home […]
Paradise City
Publishers Weekly Mayor’s solid 23rd Joe Gunther novel (after 2011’s Tag Man) focuses on a tri-cornered interstate case involving multiple thefts. One night on Boston’s exclusive Beacon Hill, three burglars break into the house of 89-year-old Wilhelmina “Billie†Hawthorn, who makes the fatal mistake of catching them in the act. Det. Jimmy McAuliffe gets the […]