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Young Bobby Cutts enters the family barn to tend to the cows and encounters a nightmare ... suddenly surrounded by fire, Bobby and the entire herd perish in a stampeding, hellish circle of flames. Joe Gunther will meet one of his deadliest opponents to date ... and will need far more than his skills as a policeman. --From publisher description.
2) The catch
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"Joe Gunther gets the call that every law enforcement person hates and every friend and family member of a policeman faces--a cop has been murdered in the line of duty. Deputy Sheriff Brian Sleuter has been shot to death during a routine traffic stop on a dark country road. From what has been seen on the cruiser's tape recorder of the killers, it is believed that they are a couple of Boston-based drug runners who were stopped by the deputy on their...
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 27
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"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...
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 10
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The discovery of an apparently homeless man's body in downtown Brattleboro leads Detective Joe Gunther and his squad to investigate possible suspects from the down-and-out types in a local bar to gubernatorial candidates in Montpelier.
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 4
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A hermit dies in the hospital of a bullet he received twenty years earlier. At his mountaintop home, a skeleton with a bullet hole and a metal knee is found buried in the yard. On the way to the medical examiner's office, the hearse comes under machine gun fire. A long-hidden crime is obviously very much on someone's mind - someone who would love to destroy what little evidence remains. The serial number on the metal knee takes Joe Gunther to Chicago,...
6) Trace
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The Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) has been pulled onto three cases at the same time; meanwhile, VBI head Joe Gunther has to take time off to care for his ailing mother.
Those cases are now in the hands of the individual investigators. Sammie Martens is assigned a murder case. The victim is a young woman, the roommate of the daughter of medical examiner Beverly Hillstrom. A recent transplant from Albany, New York, Sammie must find out what...
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 5
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In Vermont, Lieutenant Joe Gunther seeks the rapist of his girlfriend, who was attacked shortly after Gunther left her bed. All the signs point to a local drunk who has raped before, but precisely because everything is so obvious, Gunther suspects a copycat. By the author of Borderlines.
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In Brattleboro, Vermont, Lieutenant Joe Gunther juggles several cases, all of which turn out to be connected. There is the murder of a girl runaway, the disappearance of a local activist, the death of a homeless man, and the strangling of a woman due to die anyway.
9) Tucker peak
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Vermont police detective Joe Gunther digs deep for clues that will help him nab a killer, after murder hits the slopes at a posh ski resort.
10) Borderlines
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 2
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Detective Joe Gunther is on temporary assignment in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. The discovery of a man's body may indicate the involvement of a back-to-nature cult. Juggling personal problems, disputes between state and local police, animosity between townies and cult members and an increasing number of homicides, Joe moves as fast as he can to solve the crimes.
11) Bellows Falls
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 8
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A routine call asking Joe Gunther to investigate a seemingly minor complaint against a young officer of the Bellows Falls police department leads to the uncovering of a cauldron of spousal abuse, debauchery, teen crime, drug running, and cold-blooded murder.
12) The marble mask
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 11
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A frozen body is found on top of Vermont's tallest mountain in middle of winter. Lost hiker or foul play? It's hard to say, until the marble-hard body is thawed out, revealing oddly old-fashioned clothes, an ice-pick wound to the heart, and a Canadian driver's license dating back 50 years.
13) Tag man
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When a nuisance burglar who breaks into the heavily secured homes of wealthy Vermont citizens discovers evidence of a string of murders in one of the homes, Joe Gunther untangles conflicting evidence while the burglar flees for his life.
14) The second mouse
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 17
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On the edge of town Joe Gunther encounters the lifeless body of Michelle Fisher. Her corpse offers him no clues about who she was or how she died. Snapshots and postcards show a woman who laughed hard and lived harder, while diaries reveal a rootless life marred by depression and drink. Suicide seems a reasonable conclusion, but Gunther suspects foul play.
15) The dark root
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In Brattleboro, Vermont, a home invasion against a prominent Asian family by Asian gang members puts Joe Gunther on the trail of an underground railroad operation that carries drugs, illegal aliens and other contraband from Canada to Boston, New York and other US cities.
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 9
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"An unidentified man is found face down in an abandoned quarry, strangled with a piano wire. The labels have been cut from his clothes, his facial features are Slavic in appearance, and his toes are tattooed with Russian letters. When no one reports any missing persons, and no police agency responds to a fingerprint check, it looks like a dead end for Joe Gunther and his team. But then why are the FBI and the CIA showing such an interest?"--Page 4...
17) Proof positive
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Ben Kendall was a troubled man. Coming back from Vietnam with PTSD and scars that no one else could see, he hid away from the world, filling his house with an ever-increasing amount of stuff, until he was found crushed beneath his own belongings. Ben's cousin, medical examiner Beverly Hillstrom, unsettled by the circumstances of his death, alerts Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation team. Ben, it seems, brought back something else from...
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 30
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"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...
19) Red herring
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Joe Gunther and his team investigate a series of seemingly unrelated deaths where each crime scene includes a single drop of blood from a small group of unknown individuals.
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Joe Gunther mysteries volume 15
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The latest installment in the classic Joe Gunther series--the winner of the 2004 New England Book Award for Fiction--finds the Vermont detective on his most personal and dangerous case yet.
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