The Sniper's Wife - (Joe Gunther Mysteries) by Archer Mayor (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Detective Willy Kunkle is pulled back to New York City to the dead body of his ex-wife, Mary and he is the only person a disinteredsted NYPD can find to vouch for her remains.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The harrowing call comes from the NYPD. Willy's ex-wife, Mary, has been found dead in her Lower East Side apartment and Willy is asked to identify the body. Torn from his beloved Vermont, Willy returns to the city of his hard-drinking youth with misgivings that deepen when he sees Mary's sad corpse on a gurney. Because of a fresh puncture mark in her arm, the police think she overdosed. Yet Willy has doubts. Driven by loss and guilt, he searches deeper and deeper into his past, to a long-ago Vietnam where he was a merciless loner known as the Sniper. Soon Willy will answer for his old sins...and live up to his chilling nickname.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"[An] intricate, first-rate thriller... Mayor's understanding of human behavior make his tortured protagonist and unforgettable character. His powers of description not confined to Vermont, the author embues well-known and obscure New York neighborhoods with a sparkling sense of place. A riveting plot and exceptional writing will surely enhance Mayor's reputation." </p> <p>Publisher's Weekly (starred review)</p> <p></p> <p> "Mayor, a master of the slow-paced, relationship-driven, small-town mystery, proved equally capable here of tightening his grip around the neck of the hard-boiled novel but without losing his feel for the subtlety of human interaction." </p> <p> Booklist</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Archer Mayor is the author of the highly acclaimed Vermont-based series featuring detective Joe Gunther, which the <i> Chicago Tribune </i> describes as "the best police procedurals being written in America." He is a past winner of the New England Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Fiction--the first time a writer of crime literature has been so honored. In 2011, Mayor's 22nd Joe Gunther novel, TAG MAN, earned a place on <i> The New York Times </i> bestseller list for hardback fiction. </p><p> Before turning his hand to fiction, Mayor wrote history books, the most notable of which, <i> Southern Timberman: The Legacy of William Buchanan, </i> concerned the lumber and oil business in Louisiana from the 1870s to the 1970s. This book was published in 1988 and very well received; it was republished as a trade paperback in 2009. </p><p> Archer 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 he travels the Northeast giving speeches and conducting workshops. He has 25 years of experience as a volunteer firefighter/EMT. Mayor was brought up in the US, Canada and France and had been employed as a scholarly editor, a researcher for TIME-LIFE Books, a political advance-man, a theater photographer, a newspaper writer/editor, a lab technician for <i> Paris-Match Magazine </i> in Paris, France, and a medical illustrator. In addition to writing novels and occasional articles, Mayor gives talks and workshops all around the country, including the Bread Loaf Young Writers conference in Middlebury, Vermont, and the Colby College seminar on forensic sciences in Waterville, Maine. </p><p> Mayor's critically-acclaimed series of police novels feature Lt. Joe Gunther of the Brattleboro, Vermont, police department. The books, which have been appearing about once a year since 1988, have been published in five languages (if you count British), and routinely gather high praise from such sources as <i>The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, </i> and others, often appearing on their "ten best" yearly lists. </p><p> Whereas many writers base their books only on interviews and scholarly research, Mayor's novels are based on actual experience in the field. The result adds a depth, detail and veracity to his characters and their tribulations that has led <i>The New York Times</i> to call him "the boss man on procedures".</p>
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