Bury the Lead
A Joe Gunther Novel
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A murder, an arson, and an outbreak of Ebola - the latest case for Joe Gunther and the VBI team is a deadly and complex puzzle.
When the body of a young woman is found near a trail at a popular ski mountain, the case falls to Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI). They quickly have a suspect, Mick Durocher, and a confession, but not everyone on the team is convinced. Despite Mick's ready admission, investigators sense there might be more to the case than meets the eye.
At the same time, a large local business is targeted with escalating acts of vandalism—a warehouse fire, a vandalized truck, a massive cooling system destroyed—resulting in loss of life. Intriguingly, Mick Durocher, the confessed murderer, was once employed by this very company.
These two puzzling cases—now possibly connected—are further complicated when a key member of VBI, Willy Kunkle, undergoes surgery at a hospital that appears to be having an unlikely—and suspiciously timed—outbreak of Ebola.
As Joe and his team dig deeper, they uncover motives that might link the crimes, realizing that trust betrayed can be a toxic virus, turning love into murderous loathing. With another victim's life on the line, Joe must unravel a tragic history before it's too late in this gripping addition to Archer Mayor's acclaimed Joe Gunther mystery series.
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Bestseller Mayor's solid 29th Joe Gunther novel (after 2017's Trace) opens with an autopsy conducted by chief medical examiner Beverly Hillstrom, Joe's trusted associate for decades and, more recently, his lover, on the body of an unidentified young woman found near a resort on Bromley Mountain. Joe and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation soon have a suspect, thanks to security camera footage that caught logger Mick Durocher, who's also a small-time crook, disposing of the woman's body. Mick readily confesses that he hit the victim a woman named Teri Parker he picked up in a bar with a two-by-four in a drunken quarrel, but his story doesn't hold up, and finding the real killer isn't easy. Meanwhile, arson strikes the GreenField Grocers, and further sabotage has fatal results. Beverly's daughter, Rachel Reiling, newly hired as a photographer for the Battleboro Reformer, does her own, predictably dangerous, investigating into the GreenField case. This enjoyable ensemble effort is sure to please Mayor's many fans.)
