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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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A legend among Vermont cops, Joe Gunther has solved more local whodunits than a whole squad of detectives. But his latest case takes him and his team off their Brattleboro home turf, 42 miles west, to chip-on-its-shoulder, blue-collar Bennington. On the edge of town, Gunther encounters the lifeless body of Michelle Fisher. Her corpse, pale and seemingly at peace, offers him no clues about who she was or how she died. There are no signs of violence, no disorder. Snapshots and postcards show a woman who laughed hard and lived harder.
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Chat
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- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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News travels fast in the small state of Vermont. In this tight-knit society, police officers and investigators proudly maintain a kinship that transcends the boundaries of their jurisdictions. When an unidentified body is found in the peaceful town of Brattleboro, local police and the Vermont Bureau of Investigation both appear at the scene. But before investigator Joe Gunther can begin to gather evidence of murder, a family emergency sends him to his hometown, where the lives of his mother and brother have suddenly been threatened.
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The Surrogate Thief
- The Joe Gunther Mysteries, Book 15
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- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Over the years investigator Joe Gunther has battled drug pushers and corporate swindlers, grappled with environmental conspirators, and foiled gangs and home invaders. But while usually successful, Gunther hasn't always come out on top. Thirty years earlier, store owner Klaus Oberfeldt was robbed and beaten senseless. Gunther, distracted by his wife's losing struggle with cancer in the same hospital where Klaus was slipping from life, did something that would plague him for the rest of his career: He let the case go cold, burying it in the past along with his private sorrows.
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5 out of 5 stars
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always excellent entertainment
- By Kindle Customer on 06-30-19
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Gatekeeper
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- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4 out of 5 stars 13
When, in the course of a week, a young heroin addict is gunned down while trying to rob a convenience store, a narcotics dealer is found hanging from a bridge, and the granddaughter of a political bigwig dies of an overdose, Vermont detective Joe Gunther vows to stop the flow of drugs into his beloved state.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Story prematurely ends
- By Brian on 03-08-19
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The Sniper's Wife
- The Joe Gunther Mysteries, Book 13
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
The harrowing call comes from the NYPD: Willy's ex-wife Mary has been found dead in her Lower East Side apartment, and Willy is asked to identify the body. Torn from his beloved Vermont, Willy returns to the city of his hard-drinking youth with misgivings that deepen when he sees Mary's sad corpse on a gurney. Because of a fresh puncture mark in her arm, the police think she overdosed. But Willy has doubts. Driven by loss and guilt, Willy searches deeper and deeper into his past, to a long-ago Vietnam where he was a merciless loner known as the Sniper.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just ok
- By Brian on 03-01-19
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Tucker Peak
- Joe Gunther Mysteries, Book 12
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- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
An overworked sheriff and a string of condo burglaries at a luxurious ski resort have Lieutenant Joe Gunther and the newly minted Vermont Bureau of Investigation digging deep for clues. But it doesn't take long for Joe to find the most likely thief missing and his girlfriend dead. As the complications mount, from drug dealing to environmental terrorism to attempted murder, Joe and his team go undercover to infiltrate the closed society of a one-company town, populated by bored millionaires and supported by a small legion of resort employees, not all of whom are what they seem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This was a early title
- By C. A. Snyder on 06-29-18
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The Second Mouse
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
A legend among Vermont cops, Joe Gunther has solved more local whodunits than a whole squad of detectives. But his latest case takes him and his team off their Brattleboro home turf, 42 miles west, to chip-on-its-shoulder, blue-collar Bennington. On the edge of town, Gunther encounters the lifeless body of Michelle Fisher. Her corpse, pale and seemingly at peace, offers him no clues about who she was or how she died. There are no signs of violence, no disorder. Snapshots and postcards show a woman who laughed hard and lived harder.
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Chat
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- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
News travels fast in the small state of Vermont. In this tight-knit society, police officers and investigators proudly maintain a kinship that transcends the boundaries of their jurisdictions. When an unidentified body is found in the peaceful town of Brattleboro, local police and the Vermont Bureau of Investigation both appear at the scene. But before investigator Joe Gunther can begin to gather evidence of murder, a family emergency sends him to his hometown, where the lives of his mother and brother have suddenly been threatened.
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The Surrogate Thief
- The Joe Gunther Mysteries, Book 15
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Over the years investigator Joe Gunther has battled drug pushers and corporate swindlers, grappled with environmental conspirators, and foiled gangs and home invaders. But while usually successful, Gunther hasn't always come out on top. Thirty years earlier, store owner Klaus Oberfeldt was robbed and beaten senseless. Gunther, distracted by his wife's losing struggle with cancer in the same hospital where Klaus was slipping from life, did something that would plague him for the rest of his career: He let the case go cold, burying it in the past along with his private sorrows.
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5 out of 5 stars
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always excellent entertainment
- By Kindle Customer on 06-30-19
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Gatekeeper
- The Joe Gunther Mysteries, Book 14
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4 out of 5 stars 13
When, in the course of a week, a young heroin addict is gunned down while trying to rob a convenience store, a narcotics dealer is found hanging from a bridge, and the granddaughter of a political bigwig dies of an overdose, Vermont detective Joe Gunther vows to stop the flow of drugs into his beloved state.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Story prematurely ends
- By Brian on 03-08-19
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The Sniper's Wife
- The Joe Gunther Mysteries, Book 13
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
The harrowing call comes from the NYPD: Willy's ex-wife Mary has been found dead in her Lower East Side apartment, and Willy is asked to identify the body. Torn from his beloved Vermont, Willy returns to the city of his hard-drinking youth with misgivings that deepen when he sees Mary's sad corpse on a gurney. Because of a fresh puncture mark in her arm, the police think she overdosed. But Willy has doubts. Driven by loss and guilt, Willy searches deeper and deeper into his past, to a long-ago Vietnam where he was a merciless loner known as the Sniper.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just ok
- By Brian on 03-01-19
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Tucker Peak
- Joe Gunther Mysteries, Book 12
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
An overworked sheriff and a string of condo burglaries at a luxurious ski resort have Lieutenant Joe Gunther and the newly minted Vermont Bureau of Investigation digging deep for clues. But it doesn't take long for Joe to find the most likely thief missing and his girlfriend dead. As the complications mount, from drug dealing to environmental terrorism to attempted murder, Joe and his team go undercover to infiltrate the closed society of a one-company town, populated by bored millionaires and supported by a small legion of resort employees, not all of whom are what they seem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This was a early title
- By C. A. Snyder on 06-29-18
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The Catch
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Christopher Graybill
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 13
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 14
A deputy sheriff was shot to death during a routine traffic stop on a dark country road. From what can been seen on the cruiser's video recorder of the killers, it is believed that they were a couple of Boston-based drug runners who had been on their way from Canada down to Boston. That's what brings Joe Gunther and his team to the investigation - an attempt to shut down the major drug running operation.
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The Marble Mask
- The Joe Gunther Mysteries, Book 11
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18
Joe Gunther, a Brattleboro, Vermont cop, is the head of the new Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI). In The Marble Mask, the VBI's first case takes the force north to Stowe, where a 50-year-old corpse has turned up in a crevasse on Mt. Mansfield. When the frozen stiff turns out to have been a big-time Canadian crime boss named Jean Deschamps who disappeared after World War II, Joe and his gang cross the border to work with the Mounties, the Surete, and the local cops in Sherbrooke.
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The Price of Malice
- A Joe Gunther Novel
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4 out of 5 stars 11
Wayne Castine was found brutally murdered and the murderer remains at large. Castine, a suspected child predator, was killed in Brattleboro where he was involved with a tangled network of an extended family living in a local trailer park. Any member of the clan would have had the opportunity to kill him, and, as he was involved with both the mother and her 12 year old daughter, reason to commit the murder.
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Occam’s Razor
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4 out of 5 stars 18
The body was positioned so that the train would neatly obliterate its head and hands. Dressed in a homeless man's clothes with empty pockets, it might easily be passed off as an unfortunate John Doe. But Joe Gunther has a knack for knowing when things don't quite add up, and the math in this case is all kinds of wrong. A toxic waste dumping scheme, a stabbing, and a whole lot of state politics quickly complicate matters further. If Occam's razor were applied to Gunther's caseload, how many incisions would it make?
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The Disposable Man
- The Joe Gunther Mysteries, Book 9
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4 out of 5 stars 17
When a local quarry yields a garroted body with bad dental work and toes tattooed in Cyrillic, Joe Gunther figures it's a Russian Mafia killing, rare as that might be in Vermont. But it's so very...tidy. So very...professional. Then the CIA calls, inviting Gunther down to Washington for some friendly "assistance" with his case. Suddenly he's caught up in a shadowy game of cross and double-cross.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Good One
- By Ihsan M. on 07-19-19
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Red Herring
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4 out of 5 stars 14
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. In the search for the elusive truth, the VBI must plumb the depths of every suspect's past.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too bad
- By Bobbie on 10-23-10
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Proof Positive
- Joe Gunther, Book 25
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
An apparent accidental death turns out to be only the first of many murders. 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 finally the piles collapsed and he was found dead, crushed beneath his own belongings. But what on first glance looks to be the tragic accidental death of a hoarder maybe something much more - and much deadlier
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5 out of 5 stars
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Archer Mayor keeps getting better and better
- By Barb on 07-31-17
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Bomber’s Moon
- A Joe Gunther Novel
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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. Two young women form the heart of this tale. One is an investigative reporter, the other a private investigator. Uneasy allies from completely different walks of life, they work together - around and sometimes against Joe Gunther and his VBI cops - in an attempt to connect the murders of a small-town drug dealer; a smart thief; and the tangled, political, dark goings on at a prep school.
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Bellows Falls
- Joe Gunther Mysteries, Book 8
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Joe Gunther is sent to the neighboring town of Bellows Falls to investigate harassment allegations against a fellow officer. But as Gunther doggedly pursues the truth, what begins as a seemingly open-and-shut case starts to look more and more like a frame job, and he soon finds himself feeling around the edges of a statewide drug distribution network.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Police procedural series set in Vermont
- By Wayne on 09-02-17
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Three Can Keep a Secret
- A Joe Gunther Novel, Book 24
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4 out of 5 stars 29
Joe Gunther and his team - the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) - are usually called in on major cases by local Vermont enforcement whenever they need expertise and backup. But after the state is devastated by Hurricane Irene, the police from one end of the state are taxed to their limits, leaving Joe Gunther involved in an odd and seemingly unrelated series of cases. In the wake of the hurricane, a seventeen-year-old gravesite is exposed, revealing a coffin that had been filled with rocks instead of the expected remains.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Okay (barely) after a really slow start
- By Wayne on 03-03-16
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Tag Man
- A Joe Gunther Novel
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4 out of 5 stars 102
Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high security, alarm-equipped homes to find a Post-it note stuck to their bedside tables reading, “You’re it.” There is little sign of disturbance anywhere, nothing stolen (that anyone admits) and only a bit of expensive food eaten as a signature. The press loves the story and dubs the burglar the Tag Man. But who is he? And what’s he actually doing?
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2 out of 5 stars
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good story poor narrator
- By Mary on 10-31-11
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The Ragman’s Memory
- The Joe Gunther Mysteries, Book 7
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
A small girl brings Joe Gunther a bird's nest - made partially of human hair. In the search to match a body - and an identity - to the hair's owner, Joe comes across an unexplained death, a grisly murder, and a sudden disappearance. All seem to be entangled in a puzzling web of municipal corruption, blackmail, and industrial espionage. A shell-shocked World War II veteran nicknamed the Ragman may hold the key to it all - but only if Joe can get him to talk before the murderer strikes again.
Publisher's Summary
In Northwestern Vermont, young Bobby Cutts enters the family barn and encounters a nightmare. Surrounded by bolts of fire, Bobby and the entire herd perish in a stampeding circle of flames. Called to the scene to investigate, Joe Gunther instantly recognizes arson. But by whom? And why? Gunther quickly discovers that someone is wreaking havoc across the bucolic farmlands surrounding the town of St. Albans. Somewhere in the dense social fabric of the community, in the hearts and souls of Bobby's family, and in the cutthroat farming business underneath the region's placid exterior are the truths his team must ferret out. But what looked like a local case is about to take them from the barns of Vermont to the gritty streets of Newark, New Jersey. Before all is said and done, Joe Gunther will meet one of his deadliest opponents to date...and he will need far more than his skills as a policeman to protect the people closest to his heart.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Dorothy S Hicks
- 07-30-19
Narrating
The story was great but the audio book was not narrated by Tom Taylorson. If the other audio books were read by Graybill, I wouldn't have bought the other books. Why did you change? Taylorson has the right voice that keeps your attention.
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- Brian
- 03-25-19
Narration more than performance
I miss Tom Taylorson. This felt like some high school teacher reading to you instead of an audio book performance
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- P. K. Bellville
- Galt, CA United States
- 02-28-17
good story
Would you listen to St. Albans Fire again? Why?
Excellent reading. I must look for more by this reader. Mayor is a favorite of mine. I like his stories for the having a sense of place and believable characters.
What did you like best about this story?
The characters are well defined and realistically motivated.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
intense
Any additional comments?
I did not like one lengthy description of a character's sexual pleasure. It was unnecessary and sullied the book.