Archer Mayor Books in Order

A stolen luxury car abandoned in Vermont holds a dead burglar in the trunk and a trove of loot from jobs across two states. Among the discarded cell phones lies evidence from a notorious child abduction, pulling Joe Gunther's task force into a grim hunt for a hidden predator.

When a medical student realizes that wealthy philanthropist Nathan Lyon did not die a natural death after his body is donated to science, Joe Gunther uncovers that Lyon was really Nick Bianchi, with deep mob ties. As relatives in his vast converted mill start dying, family secrets and criminal debts collide.

A routine drunk driving arrest sends defense lawyers to private eye Sally Kravitz, who starts asking why the driver's disabled brother really died. Joe Gunther's team peels back decades of medical records, guilt, and financial fraud to expose who benefited from a childhood accident that was anything but simple.

This prequel novella follows Sammie Martens just after she leaves the Army and returns to a chaotic home. When her mother is arrested for an armed robbery Sammie is sure she did not commit, Sammie runs her own off-the-books investigation and crosses paths with Joe Gunther and Willy Kunkle.

After a small-time drug dealer is murdered, what looks routine soon tangles Joe Gunther's team with an elite prep school, political money, and professional thieves. Reporter Sally Kravitz and private investigator Rachel Reiling chase angles the police cannot, uncovering a much older and darker enterprise.

A murdered young woman near a ski trail, escalating sabotage at a major Vermont employer, and a frightening Ebola outbreak at a local hospital all seem unrelated at first. Joe Gunther's team slowly uncovers ties through one angry former worker and a web of corporate and personal betrayals.

With Joe Gunther pulled away to care for his ailing mother, the VBI juggles three demanding cases: a young woman apparently targeted by a hit man, a notorious trooper shooting from years ago, and an elaborate theft scheme. As threads converge, even veteran investigators misread the traces.

When demolition crews break up a concrete slab at a closed nuclear plant, they uncover the skeleton of Hank Mitchell, missing since 1970. Joe Gunther's team digs into old construction graft and laundered mob money, then races to respond when fresh murder and a hostage taking hit close to home.

During a brutal Vermont winter, the body of state senator Susan Raffner is found hanging from a highway rock face, the word dyke carved into her chest. As a governor's confidante and political star, she leaves Joe Gunther balancing a volatile investigation with statewide scrutiny.

Reclusive Vietnam veteran Ben Kendall dies when the towering piles inside his farmhouse collapse, but the scene feels wrong to medical examiner Beverly Hillstrom. Joe Gunther learns Kendall hoarded combat photos someone is desperate to erase, and his cousin Rachel becomes the next target.

In the wake of a devastating Vermont hurricane, a long-buried coffin washes open to reveal it was filled with rocks, not a body. As Joe Gunther also investigates a retired politician's death and a vanished mental patient called The Governor, an old political secret slowly surfaces.

Caught in a classic Vermont blizzard, Joe Gunther stops to help a confused young man wandering along the road. What looks like a simple rescue soon leads to a dead body, an isolated house, and a chilling choice in the whiteout.

After an elderly woman surprises burglars in her Boston townhouse and is killed, clues link the crime to a wave of sophisticated break-ins in Vermont. Joe Gunther teams up with Boston detectives and the victim's determined granddaughter to track stolen jewels into the so-called paradise of Northampton.

A nimble burglar slips into wealthy Vermont homes at night, samples fine food, and leaves only a Post-it reading, You're it. Dubbed the Tag Man, he becomes both hunter and prey after stumbling on chilling evidence that someone much worse has been hiding in plain sight.

Three people in rural Vermont die by very different means, yet each body bears a single unexplained drop of someone else's blood. As political campaigns rage in the background, Joe Gunther's team turns to cutting edge forensics to decode the taunting trail left by a meticulous killer.

Wayne Castine, a suspected child predator entangled with an extended trailer park family, is found savagely murdered, and everyone around him has motive. While Joe Gunther's team follows that case, he keeps slipping away to coastal Maine, helping Lyn Silva probe her own family's deadly secrets.

When a Vermont deputy is gunned down during a routine traffic stop, Joe Gunther's team traces the killers to a coastal drug pipeline. A charismatic lobsterman turned trafficker hides product among the boats and coves of New England, forcing the investigators offshore and undercover.

A suspicious crash that nearly kills Joe Gunther's mother and brother points to a violent local clan with a grudge. At the same time, two eerie, similar deaths lead the VBI into anonymous internet chat rooms where predators hunt teenagers behind friendly screen names.

In blue collar Bennington, Michelle Fisher is found dead in a house that is about to be sold, with no clear sign of violence. Joe Gunther reads her postcards, diaries, and debts, and slowly links her lonely life to a trio of increasingly reckless criminals.

A rash of barn and building fires across Vermont soon looks like the work of a careful arsonist. With the VBI stretched from rural dairy farms to the streets of Newark, Joe Gunther must connect scattered blazes before the firebug's attacks turn into a full-scale murder spree.

A domestic shooting brings to light a gun linked to an unsolved storekeeper's murder from Joe Gunther's early career, when his wife was dying and he let the case go cold. Haunted by that failure, he reopens the file and uncovers dangerous political and personal fallout.

A string of drug deaths and killings in Vermont - a teen robber gunned down, a dealer hanged from a bridge, a politician's granddaughter overdosed - pushes Joe Gunther's team into a multiagency war on heroin. Going undercover, Sammie Martens risks everything to expose the pipeline.

When Willy Kunkle's ex-wife is found dead of an apparent heroin overdose in her New York apartment, he refuses to believe it was an accident. Joe Gunther and Sammie Martens follow Willy into his rough past, from city streets to Vietnam scars, to confront whoever wanted Mary silenced.

Called to a luxury ski resort called Tucker Peak, Joe Gunther's VBI team expects minor thefts and environmental protests. Instead they find embezzlement, violent sabotage, and murder, forcing them to sort genuine activism from criminal cover as the resort's secrets come crashing down.

When a frozen corpse is found on a Vermont mountaintop and dated back to the 1940s, Joe Gunther's newly formed Vermont Bureau of Investigation gets its first big case. The victim was a Canadian crime boss, and old grudges now threaten to ignite a new cross-border gang war.

A headless, handless body left on railroad tracks looks like a vagrant hit by a train, until clean underwear and unusual chemical burns suggest staging. As more deaths surface, Joe Gunther follows a twisted trail toward a politically connected figure who would rather keep things simple.

An unidentified man with Russian tattoos is found strangled in a Vermont quarry, and suddenly both the CIA and the Russian underworld seem interested. When Joe Gunther is framed for theft, he realizes someone sees him as expendable and must fight to clear his name.

Loaned to the hard-luck town of Bellows Falls, Joe Gunther is asked to probe a harassment complaint against a local cop. The deeper he digs into the Bouch family and their disappearing young dealers, the more the case looks like a frame-up masking a wider drug network.

A child's discovery of human hair woven into a bird's nest leads Joe Gunther to the murder of a teenage runaway, a missing activist, and a series of suspicious deaths tied to a controversial development deal. Only a traumatized World War II veteran may hold the crucial memory.

A vicious home invasion in Brattleboro's small Asian community exposes a shadowy smuggling corridor moving people, drugs, and contraband across the Canadian border. As rival underworld factions turn on each other, Joe Gunther must work with federal and Canadian agencies before the violence spills wider.

When town official Gail Zigman, Joe Gunther's longtime companion, is brutally raped, Joe takes the case despite the conflict of interest. A single suspect soon seems to fit every clue a bit too neatly, forcing Joe to question his own judgment and the justice system itself.

A recluse living on a remote Vermont hillside appears to have died quietly, until an autopsy reveals a decades-old bullet lodged in his body. Joe Gunther follows the trail to buried cash, an unmarked grave, and someone willing to kill again to keep the past hidden.

When a fast-living stockbroker is found buried near a busy street, suspicion falls on the policeman whose wife was having an affair with him. As more bodies drop and a wiretap appears in his office, Joe Gunther hunts a vengeful killer inside a corrupt circle.

Looking for a quieter assignment, Joe Gunther takes a temporary post in Gannet, the Vermont town of his childhood summers. After a fire kills members of an isolationist sect and a worried father is stabbed, Joe uncovers arson, buried loyalties, and small-town fear.

This nonfiction history traces lumber baron William Buchanan from his first pine mills along the Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas border through a sprawling timber and rail empire. Mayor follows the family fortunes, company towns, and ecological costs that shaped the modern South.

Brattleboro detective Joe Gunther investigates when a wealthy young man is shot by a terrified widow and other former jurors from an old murder trial begin to die. Digging into the rushed conviction, he clashes with local politics and buried grudges.