From Publishers Weekly
At the start of Mayor's fine 19th Joe Gunther novel (after 2007's
Chat), Vermont deputy sheriff Brian Sleuter gets shot in the temple while making a routine traffic stop near the Canadian border. The video camera on Sleuter's cruiser taped the murder, so it appears to be a simple case, but Mayor never makes things simple. Since the pair that Sleuter stopped have a drug history, Joe Gunther, head of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, coordinates with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Boston. In a smash-bang arrest attempt, one suspect is killed, the other escapes. Joe follows him to Maine, where a drug distributor was recently murdered, drawing Joe and his staff into a fight for control of the New England drug trade and a vengeful family feud. The plot meanders and relies on coincidence more than usual in this superior regional series, but a surprise resolution to the cop killing and an unexpected final catch, one of many in the story, will leave fans feeling fully satisfied.
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Review
"Mayor is a devil of a plotter...one fine trip." -- New York Times Book Review on The Second Mouse
"Consistently the best police procedural series being written in America." —Chicago Tribune on St. Alban's Fire
"Mayor's skills are equal to the vigor of his imagination, and we take his word for every twist, every turn, every thunderbolt." —The New Yorker on St. Alban's Fire