e-books!
These Joe Gunther books are now available as e-books. Open Season is FREE (for a limited time).
Well, in the category that you can never get too old to experience the richness of life’s offerings, I’m happy to announce that — in one way at least — I’m starting all over again! OPEN SEASON, the first of the Joe Gunther series, is now officially an e-book, thanks to the good folks at Gere/Donovan Press!! Spurred on by suggestions from so many of you, I’ve decided to add e-books to the already available audio and trade paperback formats of this book.
I have my fingers crossed that many more readers will soon be joining the growing ranks of Joe-lovers. Thanks for your encouragement!
Borderlines and Scent of Evil are also available, and we plan to release 14 by the time we’re done here, for Amazon, Barnes & Noble's Nook and Apple readers.
Archer
Tag Man!
#22 in the Joe Gunther mystery series …
published: September 27, 2011
TAG MAN makes the NY Times Bestseller list!
This is a first for the Joe Gunther series, and a real hoot for me. (And helps explain why the publisher initiated a second printing, just days before the actual publication date.)
All of you are responsible for this -- thanks so much for spreading the word, and thanks as well for reaching out to me on Facebook. The more people find out that Joe is on the rise, the more likely it is that he can not only stay on the list, but climb its ranks!
Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high security homes to find a Post-it note stuck to their bedside tables reading, "Tag!" There is nothing stolen (that anyone admits,) and little that's disturbed. But who is what the press dubs the TAG MAN? And what’s he actually up to? In a twist on previous Joe Gunther stories, here the "bad guy" may well turn out to be Joe's biggest ally. More »
What others are saying about Tag Man!.
“It’s hard to imagine a more likable thief than Mayor’s Tag Man-or, for that matter, a more companionable lawman than the time-and-trouble-tested Sage of Brattleboro.”
— Kirkus
“Richly drawn characters and a delightful sense of place are hallmarks of Mayorss superb procedurals, and they are both in evidence in this fine addition to the series”
— Thomas Gaughan – Booklist
“Never have so many dysfunctional people combined for such a riveting read as in Archer Mayor's "Tag Man." […] Mayor writes an intelligent mystery. His characters are real, the things that happen to them are logical, and the plot is believable. It's a pleasure to find a story that captures readers' attention, makes them care about the characters — and offers such dark chills.”
— Mary Foster – Associated Press
Archer on NPR !
“Archer Mayor exposes the seedy underbelly of Brattleboro, Vt., in his mystery novels. But it's a challenge to bring out the dark side; Brattleboro, and Vermont in general, the author says, are "inordinately pleasant" places.” Read, listen to or download the story, Brattleboro: Vermont's Hotbed Of Fictional Crime by Neda Ulaby
Appearances and publicity tour
This fall’s appearances and publicity tour is well underway. Here’s a current listing of the “wheres and whens” of my cropping up.
The Joe Gunther detective series
“Archer Mayor's Vermont police procedurals are the best thing going…” —New York Times Book Review
Archer Mayor's Joe Gunther detective series, 22 books in all, is one of the most enduring and critically acclaimed police procedural series being written today. For years, Archer has integrated actual police methodology 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.” Whereas many writers base their books on only interviews and scholarly research, Mayor's novels are based on actual experience in the field. 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.”
The Joe Gunther detective series began in 1988 with Open Season, and now includes Borderlines, Scent of Evil, The Skeleton's Knee, Fruits of the Poisonous Tree, The Dark Root, The Ragman’s Memory, Bellows Falls, The Disposable Man, Occam's Razor, Marble Mask, Tucker Peak, The Sniper's Wife, Gatekeeper, The Surrogate Thief, St. Albans Fire, The Second Mouse, Chat, The Catch, The Price of Malice, Red Herring, and Tag Man.
The Los Angeles Times featured Scent of Evil in its 1992 year-end list of recommend readings and proclaimed The Skeleton's Knee “one of the best ten mystery books of the year” in 1993. That book also prompted the New York Times to call Mayor “one of the most sophisticated stylists in the genre,” and in 1997, to proclaim The Ragman's Memory one of only eleven “Notable” mysteries of the year—an honor it repeated in 2002 with The Sniper's Wife.
