TUCKER PEAK by Archer Mayor
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In the newest installment of Archer Mayor’s Vermont based series our hero Joe Gunther is still adjusting to his new job with the VBI (Vermont Bureau of Investigation). Testing the limits of the new department’s boundaries as opposed to those of the local police departments are a rash of burglaries occurring at lux condos located in the ski resort Tucker’s Peak. Joe and his team go undercover and find that the resort has been also dealing with sabotage as it makes ready to open a new slope to attract the average New York/Boston millionaire who just wants to get away from it all. People are missing. Dead bodies turn up. There are too many suspects. Joe and his team weed through the smoke and the mirrors with the aid of local police. Archer Mayer gives his reader a very look at the Vermont ski industry. The business of it and the players who make a skiing community work. From weekending wealthy to the snow makers we meet them all. We also get a good look at the economic struggles these communities. All served up with Mayor’s widely praised police procedural prose. this book is one for the shelves.
Ruth Jordan