HERE AT LAST!
RED HERRING is now at your bookstore.
“Verdict: An excellent police procedural series that deserves a wider readership.”
— Library Journal (starred review)
“As usual, Mayor skillfully combines a gripping police procedural with a view of smalltown life balanced by bits of humor applied at just the right time. The suspense builds toward an ending that reveals a surprising motive and a chillingly realistic villain.”
— Publisher’s Weekly
And that isn't all!
The paperback PRICE OF MALICE is on the shelves, too.
“The Joe Gunther series, set in Vermont, is one of the best around, so it's always a shock to me to discover how many readers haven't discovered it yet. With its excellent noir touches, terrific plots and really interesting central character, it ought to appear to be at the top of most lists. If you haven't already jumped on the Archer Mayor bandwagon, The Price of Malice is the perfect place to start.”
— The Toronto Globe and Mail
And for the perfect triple run?
AMPress has just reissued GATEKEEPER in a handsome new trade paperback edition. Be sure to check it out on the "buy my books" page.
“Quiet, unassuming, yet charismatic, the ever-readable Sage of Brattleboro shines in his lucky 14th. (A) page-turner”
— Kirkus Reviews
Video clips of Archer Mayor appearances
Recorded by Treasured Memories Video
– Bedford, NH:
- “What’s wrong with Maine?”
- Hear about the reason behind why Joe Gunther’s next adventure takes place in Maine.
- “The Author as Hardware Store.”
- Why Archer took his inventory into his own hands.
- “We can do anything we want with this language.”
- Hear how Archer’s love of language impelled him to write.
- “This is a place I want to be a part of.”
- Why Archer Mayor and Joe Gunther call Vermont home.
- “Hi officer!”
- Would you like a doughnut?” The truth about cops and doughnuts.
- “I am not a math major.”
- Why Archer chooses the topics he writes about.
- “I wrote Open Season three times.”
- The importance of discarding your first drafts.
- “This is possibly the worst book I’ve ever read.”
- This author’s answer to working in a cubicle.
Thank you!
Finally, I’d like to thank you yet again for being a fan and supporting me and Joe Gunther. If you send an email with your mailing address in it to AMpress@archermayor.com, I will send you a very nifty Vermont Bureau of Investigation oval bumper sticker. Thanks again, keep reading, and I’ll see you via the Gunther-Gram newsletter or on the road this fall, during my book tour.
Visit my Bookstore to see the new books and to order them.
Author interviews
Interview with Rob Caldwell on the 207 program on WCSH6.com, Portland, Maine. March, 2010.
Listen to Archer's interviews with Shelagh C. Shapiro, host of Write The Book. Write The Book is a radio show for writers and curious readers that airs on WOMM-LP 105.9 FM “The Radiator,” in Burlington, Vermont.
The Joe Gunther detective series
Archer Mayor's Joe Gunther detective series, 20 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. 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.
