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BookBrowse Reviews St Albans Fire: Joe Gunther is up against one of his deadliest opponents to date. Police Procedural/Mystery

St Albans Fire
A Joe Gunther Mystery
by Archer Mayor
Paperback, Oct 2006,
352 pages.
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From the book jacket: Winter is on the wane in northwestern Vermont. The moon hangs bright and cold in the silvery night sky over hundreds of square miles of a peaceful, dormant landscape of dairy farms. Young Bobby Cutts enters the family barn to tend to the beasts within…and encounters a nightmare. Suddenly surrounded by bolts of fire, Bobby and the entire herd perish in a stampeding, hellish circle of flames.

Called to the scene to investigate, Joe Gunther instantly recognizes arson. But by whom? And for what possible reason? There is little insurance, the family is loving and tightly knit, and there are few neighborhood animosities.

Yet murder this...
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When asked why he writes what he writes, Mayor says he's boiled down his answer to, 'ignorance and curiosity - I am driven to find out more about the world I inhabit, but about which I will always know too little.' 

In addition to writing a novel each year, Mayor also finds time to be a town constable, an interior attack fire fighter, moderator at the annual town meeting, on the board of trustees of a nearby hospital, captain the local Rescue Squad, and has applied to join the state's...
This review was originally published in November 2005, and has been updated for the October 2006 paperback release. Click here to go to this issue.
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