The Catch: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Mysteries) (2008)

Joe Gunther, a policeman for most of his adult life, gets the call that every cop hates: A fellow officer has been killed in the line of duty. During what appears to have been a routine traffic stop on a dark country Vermont road, a deputy sheriff was shot to death. From what can be seen on the  cruiser’s video recorder, the killers appear to be a couple of Boston-based drug runners.Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation are brought in to identify the killers—and track them down up and down the northeast shoreline. Meanwhile, Alan Budney, the disaffected son of a Maine lobsterman, is a man with big ambitions—to usurp and replace the state’s primary drug kingpin, a plan that will inevitably place him on a dangerous colli... full descriptionsion course with Gunther’s investigation… (less description)

Author: Archer Mayor

Categories: Mystery, Police Procedurals, Mystery & Thrillers