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Archer Mayor

Autor(a) de Open Season

38+ Works 5,747 Membros 149 Críticas 8 Favorited

About the Author

Archer Mayor lives in Newfane, Vermont. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Séries

Obras por Archer Mayor

Open Season (1988) 580 exemplares
Borderlines (1990) 274 exemplares
Scent of Evil (1992) 235 exemplares
The Skeleton's Knee (1992) 222 exemplares
The Ragman's Memory (1996) 222 exemplares
Chat (2007) 217 exemplares
Bellows Falls (1997) 204 exemplares
The Sniper's Wife (2002) 198 exemplares
The Marble Mask (2000) 195 exemplares
Fruits of the Poisonous Tree (1994) 195 exemplares
The Dark Root (1995) 193 exemplares
The Second Mouse (2006) 187 exemplares
The Disposable Man (1998) 186 exemplares
The Surrogate Thief (2004) 183 exemplares
St. Albans Fire (2005) 181 exemplares
The Catch (2008) 178 exemplares
Occam's Razor (1999) 176 exemplares
Red Herring (2010) 166 exemplares
Tucker Peak (2001) 165 exemplares
The Price of Malice (2009) 162 exemplares
Gatekeeper (2003) 155 exemplares
Three Can Keep a Secret (2013) 143 exemplares
Tag Man (2011) 142 exemplares
Paradise City (2012) 139 exemplares
Proof Positive (2014) 117 exemplares
The Company She Kept (2015) 110 exemplares
Trace (2017) 98 exemplares
Presumption of Guilt (2016) 96 exemplares
Bomber's Moon (2019) 88 exemplares
Bury the Lead (2018) 86 exemplares
The Orphan's Guilt (2020) 83 exemplares
Marked Man (2021) 74 exemplares
Fall Guy (2022) 60 exemplares
Snow Blind (2012) 22 exemplares
Crosscut (2019) 12 exemplares
Ocean's Razor 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years (2001) — Contribuidor — 69 exemplares

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This is not one of Mayor's best. The first chapter or two needed editing - sloppy work was repeated and the setup was endless. Gradually, as the scope of an investigation of the murder of a policeman in Vermont morphs into a story of drugs in Maine, more and more agencies and characters are brought in, and I couldn't bring my usual focus to bear. Too many people running around, too many possible plot points - and I guessed the murderer as soon as the character was introduced. Sigh.
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ffortsa | 3 outras críticas | Mar 19, 2024 |
This had some outre elements, satanism, death by rabies, but in the end was a very straightforward procedural full of town planners , selectmen and real estate
 
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cspiwak | 3 outras críticas | Mar 6, 2024 |
(1992) Third installment has Joe and his Brattleboro PD investigating the murder of someone partially buried. Book is not the best but the author is one I will continue to follow.KIRKUS: An honorable failure in which the author's forensic expertise, plain-speaking, and love of Vermont don't quite compensate for a plot that falls apart three quarters of the way through. Brattleboro's Lt. Joe Gunther (Borderlines; Open Season) must decide whether all the clues leading to alcoholic cop John Woll as the murderer of Johnny-come-lately Wall Street investor Charlie Jardine are real or a setup¥and if he didn't kill him, who did? To complicate matters, there's an information leak in the police department; the media is making a three-ring circus of the case; and several more are killed before Gunther can check out their ties to Jardine, whose chief mourner seems to be Woll's wife. Shoot- outs, secret meetings, and a police stakeout in the high school come into play before Gunther, several steps behind the reader, can lock up the case. The most vivid writing details the collapse of a heart wall during emergency bullet-removal, and Mayor's strength remains his lucid explanations of high-tech forensics. But neither can carry a story with an all-too-identifiable villain and flimsy clues. A miss, then, but still an author to be reckoned with.Pub Date: June 1, 1992ISBN: 0-89296-471-5Page Count: 368… (mais)
 
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derailer | 3 outras críticas | Jan 25, 2024 |
(1990) Joe is detoured off of an assignment to help with the case of a near cult where a fire kills 5 of its members and then another murder of a father of one of the cult members. Pretty good Vermont series. KIRKUS:A solid, ingratiating follow-up to Open Season, with all of that first book's plusses--Vermont topography rendered with map-precision; crusty protagonist, Joe Gunther, here on leave from the Brattleboro force; the forensic sciences, front and center. On temporary assignment in the tiny hamlet of Gannet, where he lived for a time with his gruff uncle Buster, Gunther finds the New Englanders upset by some interlopers--the Natural Order, a sexually loose band of cultists headed by autocratic environmentalist Edward Sarris. When a suspicious fire kills five cult members, the prime suspect is Brace Wingate, who threatened them when they wouldn't release his daughter Julie. Other possibilities include: Paul Gorman, a cult deprogrammer; a Gannet restauranteur, the feisty Greta, whose business was going under due to the Kingdom (cult) health-food cafe; Rennie Wilson, who was blackmailing Sarris; and one of Julie's lovers--but which one? Two murders follow before Gunther and assorted forensic specialists reconstruct the fire scene, as well as the boot and car tracks leading to a certain rendezvous, but not before the the formerly slumbering Gannet lumbers into a new decade of progress--and greed. A cool, dispassionate narrative style contrasts with the intense emotion and gruesome body assaults, to chilling effect. A powerful series--and this is only book two.Pub Date: Oct. 22, 1990ISBN: N/APage Count: -Publisher: Putnam… (mais)
 
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derailer | 10 outras críticas | Jan 25, 2024 |

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Obras
38
Also by
1
Membros
5,747
Popularidade
#4,292
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
149
ISBN
362
Línguas
3
Marcado como favorito
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