Archer Mayor at the Library: Fall Guy

In Fall Guy, Archer Mayor’s newest Joe Gunther novel, a body found in the trunk of a stolen car leads Gunther and his team to crucial evidence in an infamous unsolved case from years past.

Meet author Archer Mayor at the library

Saturday, October 29th at 11:00 a.m.

Learn about what the Chicago Tribune calls “the best police-procedural series being written in America.” 

About Archer Mayor and the Joe Gunther series

Protagonist Joe Gunther once worked for the Brattleboro, Vermont, police department and is now a Special Agent for the fictional Vermont Bureau of Investigation. Books about his case-solving prowess have appeared once a year since 1988 and have been published in five languages (if you count British). They routinely gather high praise from such sources as The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and the New Yorker, often appearing on annual ten best lists.

Mayor’s novels are rooted in actual field experience. Closely aligned to the Gunther series are the author’s own experiences in Vermont working variously as a police officer and a firefighter/EMT over the past thirty years. Currently, he still works as a medico-legal death investigator for the state’s medical examiner. This background adds depth, detail, and veracity to his characters and their struggles.

Archer was honored with the 2016 Robert B. Parker Award. (Parker being “The Dean of Mystery Writers.”) In 2004, he won the New England Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Fiction—the first time a writer of crime literature has been so honored. He was inducted into Vermont’s Academy of Arts and Science, and, in 2012, was awarded the Vermont governor’s award for Excellence in the Arts. In 2011, Mayor’s 22nd Joe Gunther novel, TAG MAN, earned a place on The New York Times bestseller list for hardback fiction.