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St Albans Fire by Archer Mayor

St Albans Fire

A Joe Gunther Mystery

by Archer Mayor
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  • First Published:
  • Oct 1, 2005, 304 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Oct 2006, 352 pages
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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 assistant medical examiner program this fall!   For more about Mayor, read his interview and biography at BookBrowse.

The Joe Gunther series in publication order (based on USA hardcover version):
Open Season (1988), Borderlines (1990), Scent of Evil (1992), The Skeleton's Knee (1993), Fruits of the Poisonous Tree (1994), The Dark Root (1995), The Ragman's Memory (1996), Bellows Falls (1997), The Disposable Man (1998), Occam's Razor (1999), The Marble Mask (2000), Tucker Peak (2001), The Sniper's Wife (2002), Gatekeeper (2003), The Surrogate Thief (2004), St Albans Fire (2005).

Just released: The Second Mouse (October 2006).  Described by PW as "superb" and "entirely accessible to new readers".

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