Joe Gunther Mysteries #24
Minotaur Books
September 2014
On Sale: August 26, 2014
Featuring: Joe Gunther
336 pages ISBN: 1250054680 EAN: 9781250054685 Kindle: B00CQYBANE Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
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
โThree can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.โ โBen Franklin
Joe Gunther and his teamโthe Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI)โare 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 wasnโt 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 โGovernor for a Day,โ 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, itโs up to Joe Gunther and his team to learn what really happened with the two corpsesโone missingโand what secret โThe Governorโ might have still locked in her brain that links them all.
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