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Now a "New York Times" bestselling series, "Even in beautiful
Vermont, Archer Mayor finds shadows . . . and his detective, Joe
Gunther, finds a way to beat them back." --"NPR"
Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation
are alerted to a string of unrelated burglaries across Vermont.
Someone, in addition to flatscreens, computers, and stereos, has
also been stealing antiques and jewelry.
Meanwhile, in Boston, an elderly woman surprises some thieves in
her Beacon Hill home and is viciously murdered. The Boston police
find that not only is the loot similar to what's being stolen in
Vermont, but it may have the same destination. Word is out that
someone powerful is purchasing these particular kinds of items in
the "Paradise City" of Northampton, Mass.
Gunther, the Boston Police, and the vengeful granddaughter of the
murdered old lady convene on Northampton, eager to get to the
bottom of the mystery and find the "responsible parties"--although
each is motivated to mete out some very different penalties.
In "Southern Timberman," Archer H. Mayor traces the legacy of
William Buchanan and the companies he owned along the borders of
Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, from his first lumber mill in the
early 1880s to the sale of the last company in 1979. Like many
self-made men, Buchanan was known for both his compassion and his
relentlessness. To the hundreds of workers who lived in his
company-built mill towns, "Old Man" Buchanan was a caring father
figure. To his business associates, he was a strong-willed
profiteer--a God-fearing, "cut-out-and-get-out" lumberman whose
crews laid waste to thousands of acres of virgin pineland.
Whatever his tactics, William Buchanan had a gift for making
money. By the time he died in 1923, he was one of the wealthiest
men in the South. "Southern Timberman" is also the story of a
strong, volatile family who fought--sometimes among themselves--to
preserve that fortune. Tracing the growth of Buchanan's ventures
from the first acre of virgin pine to the charged atmosphere of the
corporate boardroom, Mayor paints a compelling family portrait set
against the background of America's oil and timber industries.
Archer Mayor's "New York Times" bestselling Joe Gunther series
returns with a complex case involving two corpses, one escaped
mental patient, and a long-held secret that binds them together
""Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." --Ben
Franklin
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"Joe Gunther and his team--the Vermont Bureau of Investigation
(VBI)--are usually called in on major cases by local Vermont
enforcement whenever they need expertise and back-up. But after the
state is devastated by Hurricane Irene, the police from one end of
the state are taxed to their limits, leaving Joe Gunther involved
in an odd, seemingly unrelated series of cases. In the wake of the
hurricane, a seventeen year old gravesite is exposed, revealing a
coffin that had been filled with rocks instead of the expected
remains.
At the same time, an old, retired state politician turns up dead at
his high-end nursing home, in circumstances that leave
investigators unsure that he wasn't murdered. And a patient who
calls herself The Governor has walked away from a state mental
facility during the post-hurricane flood. It turns out that she was
indeed once "Governor for a Day," over forty years ago, but that
she might have also been falsely committed and drugged to keep her
from revealing something that she saw all those years ago. Amidst
the turmoil and the disaster relief, it's up to Joe Gunther and his
team to learn what really happened with the two corpses--one
missing--and what secret "The Governor" might have still locked in
her brain that links them all.
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