![]() The action shifts from one character and one story to another, often within a chapter, and reading the book is like sitting in front of the television, flipping back and forth among four or five channels and trying somehow to keep abreast of the plots of each of the stories. Gunther serves as the ringmaster and makes an occasional appearance most of the other usual cast members have very small roles. We also have an artistic thief who is suddenly on the verge of a major score.Įach of these characters has their own story arc and ultimately, the book is so convoluted that even the subplots have subplots. whose father figured prominently in a couple of earlier books. ![]() In particular, in this book we have a young female reporter who is the daughter of the woman to whom Gunther is currently attached. Particularly in the more recent books, Mayor has expanded the cast of characters and he has brought some of the new and younger characters into this book at the expense of Gunther and the original cast. The book opens with the seemingly routine murder of a low-level drug dealer and then mushrooms into a series of different stories that proceed along their own individual paths until they finally come together in what is, to be charitable, a climax that I found impossible to believe. His role is now more of a supervisory one, and he spends much less time actually investigating crimes himself. ![]() Gunther is now the leader of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, with responsibilities far beyond those of his earlier days. Thirty-one years down the road, Gunther returns in Bomber’s Moon, the thirtieth book in the series, which, at least in my view, is not nearly as good as most of the earlier ones. As the years and the books progressed, readers got to know rural Vermont and the cast of characters extremely well. It was an excellent, tightly plotted mystery with a great sense of place, and it also introduced several of the core characters who would accompany Gunther through the series. In 1988, Archer Mayor introduced Joe Gunther, a detective on the Brattleboro, Vermont P.D, in Open Season a regional mystery from which would grow a series that now runs to thirty books. A malevolent force, the common link in all this death and chaos, is hard at work sowing mayhem to protect its ancient, vicious, very dark roots. While Gunther and the VBI set about solving the two murders, Sally Kravitz and Rachel Reiling combine their talents and resources to go where the police cannot, from working undercover at Thorndike Academy, to having clandestine meetings with criminals for their insider's knowledge of Vermont's unexpectedly illicit underbelly.īut there is a third element at work. Uneasy allies from completely different walks of life, they work together-around and sometimes against Joe Gunther and his VBI cops-in an attempt to connect the murders of a small town drug dealer, a smart, engaging, fatally flawed thief, and the tangled, political, increasingly dark goings on at a prestigious prep school. One, an investigative reporter, the other a private investigator. Two young women form the heart of this tale. Often with dire consequences.īomber's Moon is Archer Mayor's latest entry in the Joe Gunther series and it may just be his best yet. But beware what you wish for: What you can see at night can also see you. It is said a bright and clear bomber's moon is the best asset to finding one's target. The murder of a small-time drug dealer snowballs into the most complex case ever faced by Joe Gunther and his VBI team.
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