Big news! – the New audiobook of Open Season is now on sale at The Archer Mayor Bookstore.
Visit The Archer Mayor Bookstore to purchase the Audiobook version of Open Season – the thrilling novel that introduced detective Joe Gunther to the world.
You can get a sneak peek of the new audiobook version of Open Season for free!. Simply follow these instructions to download or listen to a free audio Mp3 of Chapter One.
Greetings fans of Joe Gunther! Joe’s 19th adventure is on schedule to be released this fall by St. Martin’s Press. It’s called The Catch, and it is primarily placed in Maine and focuses on the activities of one Alan Budney, the disaffected son of an old-time lobsterman. The book begins, however, in Vermont, where a deputy sheriff is shot to death during a routine traffic stop on a dark country road. It is believed that his killers (caught partially on the cruiser’s tape recorder) were a couple of Boston-based drug runners who had just crossed into Vermont from Canada, presumably carrying a load they didn’t want interdicted by the cop. This shooting gets Joe Gunther and the VBI involved in the investigation, pursuing the two bad guys, and headed toward a rendezvous, of sorts, with Budney and his plans to usurp and replace Maine’s biggest drug lord. (And that’s just the beginning…)
St. Martin’s is a venerable publishing house, and being a part of their Minotaur Press mystery imprint is feeling great.
Video clips of Archer Mayor appearances – recorded by Treasured Memories Video – Bedford, NH:
- “What’s wrong with Maine?”
- Hear about the reason behind why Joe Gunther’s next adventure takes place in Maine.
- “The Author as Hardware Store.”
- Why Archer took his inventory into his own hands.
- “We can do anything we want with this language.”
- Hear how Archer’s love of language impelled him to write.
- “This is a place I want to be a part of.”
- Why Archer Mayor and Joe Gunther call Vermont home.
- “Hi officer!”
- Would you like a doughnut?” The truth about cops and doughnuts.
- “I am not a math major.”
- Why Archer chooses the topics he writes about.
- “I wrote Open Season three times.”
- The importance of discarding your first drafts.
- “This is possibly the worst book I’ve ever read.”
- This author’s answer to working in a cubicle.
Character Contest Winner.
Congratulations to Karen Putnam of Claremont, NH! Karen is the lucky winner of the April Character Contest. Karen visited the site and purchased some books, and was entered into a drawing. She will find her place in immortality as a character in the next book after The Catch, which will be Joe Gunther’s 20th adventure and will come out in 2009. You’ll have to wait until then to see Karen’s fate.
Finally, I’d like to thank you yet again for being a fan and supporting me and Joe. If you send an email with your mailing address in it to ampress@sover.net, Elaine, my publisher/publicist/partner-in-crime, will send you a very nifty Vermont Bureau of Investigation oval bumper sticker. Only the coolest people have them. Meanwhile, I will be immersing myself in writing Joe’s 20th adventure, tentatively entitled, The Price Of Malice. Thanks again, keep reading, and I’ll see you on the road this fall during my book tour for The Catch.
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The Joe Gunther detective series
The Joe Gunther detective series began in 1988 with Open Season, and now includes Borderlines, Scent of Evil, The Skeleton's Knee, Fruits of the Poisonous Tree, The Dark Root, The Ragman’s Memory, Bellows Falls, The Disposable Man, Occam's Razor, Marble Mask, Tucker Peak, The Sniper's Wife, Gatekeeper, The Surrogate Thief, St. Albans Fire, The Second Mouse and Chat. The Catch. The Los Angeles Times featured Scent of Evil in its 1992 year-end list of recommend readings and proclaimed The Skeleton's Knee “one of the best ten mystery books of the year” in 1993. That book also prompted the New York Times to call Mayor “one of the most sophisticated stylists in the genre,” and in 1997, to proclaim The Ragman's Memory one of only eleven “Notable” mysteries of the year—an honor it repeated in 2002 with The Sniper's Wife.
What the critics are saying
“Mayor is a devil of a plotter and… (The Second Mouse)… is one fine trip.”
— Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
“Superb”
— Publisher's Weekly (starred review)
“Mayor's elegiac tone and his insights into the human condition make The Second Mouse a fine addition to one of the most consistently satisfying mystery series going.”
—Thomas Gaughan, Booklist