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Archer Mayor

In 2014, Newfane-based Vermont author Archer Mayor published the 25th in his Joe Gunther mystery series: Proof Positive.  This book takes Gunther from Vermont to Philadelphia and back again as he investigates the mysterious death of a photographer and Vietnam Veteran shortly before the world "discovers" his work through a UVM exhibition.

Mayor is known for police procedurals that fit seamlessly into the landscape of Vermont. His investigators move across the state, with portrayals of Vermont sites from the Pownal race track to downtown Burlington.

Like many Vermonters, Archer Mayor has more than one job. In addition to being a New York Times bestselling writer, he is a death investigator for Vermont’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and a police detective. He also has 25 years experience as a volunteer firefighter/EMT. A Yale graduate, scholar, editor, researcher, photographer, his resume reveals work as a political advance man, a medical illustrator, and recently, a winner of the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.  

Archer Mayor is also publisher of his own backlist - which, yes, we carry in the Mystery section of the store. 

CLICK HERE to visit the exhaustive list of Archor Mayor books available thorugh Bear Pond Books, or scroll below for a sampling.

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 senator and best friend and ally of the current gove ... Read More about
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 ... Read More about
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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 killed-and others set-up-seemingly orchestrated by a mysterious ski-masked man. Signs sug ... Read More about
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Lt. 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. Suddenly, he finds himself enm ... Read More about
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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 he's too far behind events to prevent a second murder. Indeed, whoever is responsib ... Read More about
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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 truth, and soon he finds himself feeling around ... Read More about
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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, inviting Gunther down to Washington for some ... Read More about
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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 hardscrabble mountain field, Abraham Fuller was virtual ... Read More about
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A small girl brings Joe Gunther a bird's nest-made partially of human hair. In the search to put a body, and an identity, to the hair's owner, Joe comes upon an unexplained death, a grisly murder, and a sudden disappearance. All seem to be entangled in a puzzling web of municipal corruption, blackma ... Read More about
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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 aside and follow the trail of evidence. Every le ... Read More about
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