WILMINGTON — Bartleby's Books will host a discussion and book signing with Newfane's Archer Mayor, author of the highly acclaimed Joe Gunther detective series, on Friday, Oct. 7, at 6:30 p.m.
In addition to writing The New York Times bestselling detective series, Mayor is a death investigator for Vermont's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, a detective for the Windham County Sheriff's Office, the publisher of his own backlist, a travel writer for AAA, and travels the Northeast giving speeches and conducting workshops. He has 25 years of experience as a volunteer firefighter/EMT, according to a news release.
His latest installment in the Joe Gunther series, “Presumption of Guilt,” begins when a 40-year-old skeleton is found encased in a concrete slab at a recently decommissioned nuclear energy site. It becomes a case for the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) and its leader, Joe Gunther, since they have the resources and the ability to investigate an old, very cold, missing-persons case that has now been reclassified as murder.
But what seems the coldest of cold cases roars back to life when one of the central figures in this mystery is shot to death right after speaking with Gunther. After many years, the truth behind the murder still has to the power to kill, and it's up to Gunther and his team to capture the living and finally put the dead to rest.