"Bearpond Books

Before turning his hand to fiction, Archer Mayor was variously employed as a scholarly editor, a researcher for Time-Life books, a political advance man, a theater photographer, a lab technician in Paris, France, and a medical illustrator. He lives in Newfane, Vermont and has now been writing full time for more than twenty years.

The Catch
Joe Gunther, a Vermont cop for most of his adult life and now the head of the VBI (Vermont Bureau of Investigation) gets the call that every law enforcement person hates and every friend and family member of a policeman fears – a cop has been shot and killed. A deputy sheriff was shot to death during a routine traffic stop on a dark country road. From what can been seen on the cruiser’s tape recorder of the killers, it is believed that they were a couple of Boston-based drug runners who had been stopped by the deputy on their way from Canada down to Boston.
Which is what brings Gunther and his team to the investigation – an attempt to shut down the major drug running operation. Specially that of one Alan Budney, disaffected son of a lobsterman, now a drug kingpin, who uses the closed, clannish lobster fishing community and his extended family in particular, to move drugs along the New England coast.

The Price of Malice

Joe Gunther puts a murder investigation on hold to help his girlfriend solve her father’s mysterious death. Torn between his conscience and his heart, Gunther finds that betrayal and loyalty are often a matter of viewpoint.