Open Season A Joe Gunther Novel [Paperback]

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 killedand others set-upseemingly orchestrated by a mysterious ski-masked man. Signs suggest that a three year-old murder trial might lie at the heart of things, but its a case that many in the department would prefer remained closed. A man of quiet integrity, Lt. Gunther knows that he must pursue the case to its conclusion, wherever it leads.

Originally entitledThe Stalking Horse(a title that was used on another book published just a month before this was set to appear,)Open Seasonconcerns a mysterious man in a ski mask, who forces the police to reopen an old murder case by compromising all the members of the old jury. Joe, soon realizing that his department is being used as a stalking horse to flush out the real murderer, must discover who that person is, before the man in the ski mast gets to him first.

Archer Mayor is the author of the highly acclaimed Vermont-based series featuring detective Joe Gunther, which theChicago Tribunedescribes as the best police procedurals being written in America. He is a past winner of the New England Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Fictionthe first time a writer of crime literature has been so honored. In 2011, Mayors 22nd Joe Gunther novel, TAG MAN, earned a place onThe New York Timesbestseller list for hardback fiction.

Before turning his hand to fiction, Mayor wrote history books, the most notable of which,Southern Timberman: The Legacy of William Buchanan,concerned the lumber and oil business in Louisiana from the 1870s to the 1970s. This book was published in 1988 and very well received; it was republished as a trade paperback in 2009.

Archer Mayor is a death investigator for Vermonts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, a detectivlÓ%