Tom Taylorson
1) Marked man (
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In Archer Mayor's Marked Man, the death of a local millionaire becomes suspicious when Joe Gunther learns that he was not who he claimed. A year ago, local philanthropist and millionaire Nathan Lyon died a natural death in his sprawling mansion, a 150,000 square foot converted mill, surrounded by his loving, attentive family. Or so it seemed at the time. Now Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation team has discovered that almost nothing...
2) Trace
Author
Series
Joe Gunther volume Book 28
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 325 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Joe Gunther takes time off to care for his mother, the FBI investigates three cases involving a roommate's murder by contract, the cold-case double murder of a state trooper and a motorist, and an act of sabotage on military equipment.
4) Below
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Breathtakingly frightening and hugely entertaining. . .a knockout debut. Ryan Lockwood is a talent to watch! —Tripp Whetsell, NY Daily News
In the bestselling tradition of Jaws, from the depths of the sea comes a new kind of terror.
In all his years as a professional diver, Will Sturman has never encountered a killing machine more ferocious than the great white shark or as deadly as the piranha. Now, off the coast of California,...
In the bestselling tradition of Jaws, from the depths of the sea comes a new kind of terror.
In all his years as a professional diver, Will Sturman has never encountered a killing machine more ferocious than the great white shark or as deadly as the piranha. Now, off the coast of California,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
"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 as murder. The victim was Hank Mitchell, and Gunther must chase down old rumors and speculations who benefited from...
6) Ash
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Agents of the state murdered his wife and took his son. Now they're coming for Danny Ash.
Framed as a terrorist, the mild-mannered stay-at-home dad, desperate to find his child, has to evade both law enforcement and killers in the pay of shadowy vulture capitalist Victor Fabian, whose influence reaches deep into the White House. Fabian, battling political enemies and the creeping dementia that has him in its grip, is determined to silence Ash who...
Author
Series
Joe Gunther volume 30
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The murder of a small-time drug dealer snowballs into the most complex case ever faced by Joe Gunther and his VBI team. 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. Bomber's Moon is Archer Mayor's latest entry in the Joe Gunther series and it may just be his best yet. Two young women form the heart of this...
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Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Physical Desc
240 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joe Gunther is sent to the neighboring town of Bellows Falls to investigate harassment allegations against a fellow officer. But as Gunther doggedly pursues the truth, what begins as a seemingly open-and-shut case starts to look more and more like a frame job, and he soon finds himself feeling around the edges of a statewide drug distribution network. As always, Vermont itself is a major character in Mayor's writing, with Bellows Falls standing in...
Author
Series
Joe Gunther volume 26
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
"During the height of a particularly brutal Vermont winter, one morning a woman's body is found hanging high above the interstate. The woman, found with the word "dyke" carved on her chest is quickly determined to be the victim of a brutal murder. Thatalone is enough to bring in Joe Gunther and his VBI (Vermont Bureau of Investigation) team. But when the victim is identified not only as a state senator, bus as an intimate friend of the governor's,...
Author
Series
Joe Gunther volume 33
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Archer Mayor's Fall Guy, a body found in the trunk of a stolen car leads Joe Gunther and his team to crucial evidence in an infamous unsolved case from years past. A high-end stolen car is discovered in Vermont. A car filled with stolen items from a far-flung two stage burglary spree. But it's what is in the trunk that brings Joe Gunther and his team from the Vermont Bureau of Investigation. In the trunk is the body of burglar in question - one...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 Rust is arrested for drunk driving by a Vermont state trooper. Looking to find mitigating circumstances, John's lawyer hires private eye Sally Kravitz to...
Author
Series
Joe Gunther volume 24
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 a secret, if two of them are dead."-Ben Franklin Joe Gunther and his team-the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI)-are usually called in on major cases by local Vermont enforcement whenever they need expertise and backup. But after the state is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
A small girl brings Joe Gunther a bird's nest-made partially of human hair. In the search to match a body-and an identity-to the hair's owner, Joe comes across an unexplained death, a grisly murder, and a sudden disappearance. All seem to be entangled in a puzzling web of municipal corruption, blackmail, and industrial espionage. A shell-shocked World War II veteran nicknamed the Ragman may hold the key to it all-but only if Joe can get him to talk...
14) The marble mask
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
309p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
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, where a fifty-year-old corpse has turned up in a crevasse on Mt. Mansfield. Some of the more interesting minor characters in author Archer Mayor's long-running series about the amiable elder sleuth make...
Author
Series
Joe Gunther volume 9
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a local quarry yields a garroted body with bad dental work and toes tattooed in Cyrillic, Joe Gunther figures it's a Russian Mafia killing, rare as that might be in Vermont. But it's so very ... tidy. So very ... professional. Then the CIA calls, inviting Gunther down to Washington for some friendly 'assistance' with his case. Suddenly he's caught up in a shadowy game of cross and double-cross-manipulated by cynical, cold warriors who don't seem...
16) The second mouse
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A legend among Vermont cops, Joe Gunther has solved more local whodunits than a whole squad of detectives. But his latest case takes him and his team off their Brattleboro home turf, forty-two miles west, to chip-on-its-shoulder, blue-collar Bennington. On the edge of town, Gunther encounters the lifeless body of Michelle Fisher. Her corpse, pale and seemingly at peace, offers him no clues about who she was or how she died. There are no signs of violence,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
294p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
Over the years investigator Joe Gunther has battled drug pushers and corporate swindlers, grappled with environmental conspirators, and foiled gangs and home invaders. But while usually successful in his fight for the future of the small town of Brattleboro, Vermont, Gunther hasn't always come out on top.Thirty years earlier store owner Klaus Ober-feldt was robbed and beaten senseless. When Klaus died six months later, a case of assault and battery...
18) Borderlines
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Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
253 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Joe Gunther is in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom investigating a minor embezzling case. It's 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 can't help but investigate. He quickly finds himself enmeshed in a web of animosity between put-upon townspeople, the state police, angry parents, and members of a reclusive sect. Murder follows murder,...
19) Gatekeeper
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Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
296p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
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 granddaughter of a political bigwig dies of an overdose, Vermont detective Joe Gunther vows to stop the flow of drugs into his beloved state.
20) Tucker peak
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
295p. 23cm.
Language
English
Description
An overworked sheriff and a string of condo burglaries at a luxurious ski resort have Lieutenant 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 complications mount, from drug dealing to environmental terrorism to attempted murder, Joe and his team go undercover to infiltrate the closed society of a one-company...