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Meet and Greet with Archer Mayor
Find Out What’s New from Archer Mayor at Brooks Memorial Library!
Brattleboro, VT ~ Get the lowdown on Marked Man, the latest novel featuring Brattleboro’s famous fictional detective Joe Gunther on Saturday, October 2nd at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St. Join us for an outdoor opportunity to meet and greet acclaimed author Archer Mayor, from 11:00 am -1:00 pm on the plaza in front of the library. Copies of Marked Man will be available for sale and signing from Everyone’s Books.
Readers will revel in the masterful storytelling as bestseller Mayor expertly juggles four plotlines, which may or may not be related, in his 32nd mystery. A year after the death of affluent Nathan Lyon from natural causes while under hospice care, a medical student dissecting his corpse determines that Lyon was strangled, prompting Gunther to launch a murder inquiry. The eccentric Lyon had most of his family, and thus most of those with an obvious motive to kill him, living together in a huge home that also housed several stores. As Gunther tries to find clues so long after the murder, a second member of the Lyon clan dies, this time from an apparently accidental fall. Meanwhile, PI Sally Kravitz is retained by the wife of one of Lyon’s sons, who suspects an employee is stealing from her business. Finally, two Mafia hit men are trying to identify the person who ordered a killing that one of them admitted to and did time for, but now claims not to have committed.
Gunther’s case-solving prowess has appeared in books annually since 1988. The series routinely gathers high praise from such sources as The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The New Yorker, with books often appearing on annual ten best lists, and is popular with fellow mystery writers. Louise Penny says, “As a longtime fan of Archer Mayor, and Gunther, I say Bravo, and keep them coming!”
Described by the Chicago Tribune as “the best police procedurals being written in America,” Archer Mayor loosely bases his novels on his actual experience in the field. He has served as a firefighter/EMT and a police officer, and continues to work as a death investigator for Vermont’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
The program is free and open to the public and is accessible to people in wheelchairs.
