While investigating a series of condo burglaries at a posh upstate Vermont ski resort, Lt. Joe Gunther encounters a missing prime suspect, the murder of the suspect's girlfriend, environmental terrorism, drug dealing, and conspiracy.

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.

Hiding the rookie inexperience that rendered a homicide case from the beginning of his career unsolvable, Joe Gunther discovers the case's murder weapon and begins tracking a killer who possesses a nature more brutal than anticipated.

When heroin traffickers establish a vast and swift pipeline into Vermont, Joe Gunther's Bureau of Investigation is called in to stern the tide. His team is forced to take wild risks, and he must make some agonizing choices.

While Joe Gunther takes time off to care for an ailing family member, the FBI finds their hands full with three separate big cases involving a roommate's murder by contract, the cold-case double murder of a state trooper and motorist and an act of sabotage on critical military equipment. By the author of Presumption of Guilt.

"When the body of a young woman is found near a trail at a popular ski mountain, the case falls to Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI). They quickly have a suspect, Mick Durocher, and a confession, but not everyone on the team is convinced. Despite Micks ready admission, investigators quickly sense there might be more going on than is immediately apparent."--from publisher's description.

Detective Joe Gunther of Vermont investigates the murder of a trucker and the death of a blackmailing hooker. The two cases converge in a mystery about an ambitious senator and toxic wastes

To tie into the December release of Archer Mayor's Joe Gunther hardcover Fruits of the Poisonous Tree, here is a reissue of the debut novel that first introduced Joe Gunther in 1989--out of print since 1991. Gunther investigates the murder of a juror by another juror from a three-year-old case.

"In Archer Mayor's Fall Guy, a body found in the trunk of a stolen car leads Joe Gunther and his team to crucial evidence in an infamous unsolved case from years past. A high-end stolen car is discovered in Vermont. A car filled with stolen items from a far-flung two stage burglary spree. But it's what is in the trunk that brings Joe Gunther and his team from the Vermont Bureau of Investigation. In the trunk is the body of burglar in question - one...

VBI (Vermont Bureau of Investigation) head Joe Gunther and his team are called in to investigate a series of violent deaths that appear unrelated until telltale clues reveal a linkage between them and that all of the deaths are, in fact, murders. However, apart from a single drop of unexplained blood left at each crime scene, there are no obvious connections between the victims or the cases. The police are faced with more questions than answers including...