Trace Now Available in Paperback, Book #28

Released May 15, 2019.

The Vermont Bureau of
Investigation (VBI) has been pulled onto three cases at the same time;
meanwhile, VBI head Joe Gunther has to take time off to care for his
ailing mother.

Those cases are now in the hands of the individual
investigators. Sammie Martens is assigned a murder case. The victim is a
young woman, the roommate of the daughter of Medical Examiner Beverly
Hillstrom. A recent transplant from Albany, New York, Sammie must find
out what put a hit man on the trail of this seemingly innocent young
woman.

Lester Spinney takes over a famous cold case, a double
murder where a state trooper and a motorist were killed in an exchange
of gunfire. Or so it has seemed for years. When Lester is told that the
motorist’s fingerprints were planted on the gun he’s supposed to have
fired, it opens the question―who really killed the state trooper?

Willy
Kunkle’s case starts with a child’s discovery of three teeth on a
railroad track, leading eventually to a case of possible sabotage
against critical military equipment.

In cases that lead the team
all over Vermont and nearby, Archer Mayor once again shows why his
novels featuring Joe Gunther and the VBI team are among the finest crime
fiction today.