The Marble Mask, Archer Mayor
The Marble Mask, Archer Mayor
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The Marble Mask

Author: Archer Mayor

Narrator: Tom Taylorson

Unabridged: 9 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/06/2018

Synopsis

Joe Gunther, a Brattleboro, Vermont, cop, is the head of the new Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI), a joint task force charged with statewide responsibility for major crimes. In The Marble Mask, the VBI’s first case takes the force north to Stowe, where a fifty-year-old corpse has turned up in a crevasse on Mt. Mansfield. Some of the more interesting minor characters in author Archer Mayor’s long-running series about the amiable elder sleuth make return appearances here as Joe’s teammates—like one-armed Willy, a former wife-beater who’s now playing footsie with Sammie Martens, one of Joe’s favorite colleagues. When the frozen stiff turns out to have been a big-time Canadian crime boss named Jean Deschamps who disappeared after World War II, Joe and his gang cross the border to work with the Mounties, the Sûreté, and the local cops in Sherbrooke, where Deschamps’ son Marcel is involved in a turf war with the Hell’s Angels and a rival gang of thugs. Old secrets and intrigues come to light while an intricate plan to frame a dying man for a half-century-old crime forms an interesting puzzle that’s not fully revealed until the very end.

About Archer Mayor

Archer Mayor is the New York Times bestselling author of the highly acclaimed Vermont-based series of mystery novels featuring detective Joe Gunther. He is a past winner of the New England Book Award for his body of work, the first time a writer of crime literature has been so honored. He also works as a death investigator, a sheriff’s deputy, and a volunteer firefighter and EMT in Vermont.

About Tom Taylorson

Tom Taylorson is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and Chicago-based actor with over a decade of stage experience. In that time he also built a voice-over career and now primarily works as a voice actor. Tom is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College Chicago, teaching voice-over for interactive media.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Phyllis on November 19, 2012

Too much time spent on the complexities of the various Vermont law enforcement groups. Also too much time describing where everything was in Vermont and Quebec when a map would have sufficed (a picture is worth a 1000 words!). Completely unrealistic was how often Joe Gunther just missed dying. And g......more

Goodreads review by Steve on December 31, 2013

An OK book, but not my favorite by far in the Joe Gunter series. This one dragged a little bit and in fact, a couple of times I felt myself wondering what was going on. Like I said, it is OK of you are reading the series, but if you just want an Archer Mayor book to read, I'd skip this one.......more

Goodreads review by Cindy B. on December 26, 2018

Like the series and it’s main character and his team. Plots are always well thought out. No cliffhangers, graphics (sex or language), well narrated by Tom Taylorson. Recommended.......more

Goodreads review by Jim on June 10, 2017

So Mayor has found a way to broaden Joe Gunther's territory outside of Brattleboro and open up lots of new plot lines. These are fun to read although Gunther gets the crap beat out of him constantly (and bounces back well for a man his age). Always fun stuff to be found here if you don't take it too......more

Goodreads review by Cindy B. on December 27, 2018

Like the series and characters. Good plot however although main character doesn’t usually use profanity, he does say the f word once in this one. Well narrated. Recommended with that provision.......more

Quotes

“Mayor excels at painting a picture of a time and place that’s as authentic as maple syrup, and in Joe he’s created a Cooperesque character who’s almost as enigmatic as the mist-shrouded mountains of his beloved state.” Amazon.com, editorial review

“Thoroughly entertaining…Imaginatively conceived and executed with the polish Mayor has honed over the life of the series.” Publishers Weekly

“The broader turf serves only to energize what was already an outstanding series.” Booklist

“Warmhearted, streetwise Joe, the quintessential good cop, continues to be the strength of this estimable series.” Kirkus Reviews

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