Village Square Booksellers is located in the village of Bellows Falls in Southeastern Vermont, along the Connecticut River, bordering New Hampshire. Hours: M-Th 9-5, Fri 9-6, Sat 9-4, Sun 10-3
ISBN-13: 9780312381929 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Minotaur Books, 09/01/2009
Wayne Castine was found brutally murdered and the murderer remains at large. Castine, a suspected child predator, was killed in Brattleboro where he was involved with a tangled network of an extended family living in a local trailer park. Any member of the clan would have had the opportunity to kill him, and, as he was involved with both the mother and her 12 year old daughter, reason to commit the murder. At the same time, Joe Gunther has learned that his girlfriend Lyn Silva's fisherman father and brother, believed lost at sea off the coast of Maine, might have actually been murdered. Without enough solid information to warrant law enforce ment involvement, Lyn returns to Maine to try and investigate Gunther's findings. Gunther periodically puts his on-going murder investigation on hold--irritating his colleagues and angering his bosses --to go and help Lyn in Maine. It appears increasingly possible that her father and brother weren't the good guys that Lyn always believed them to be and that they might have been involved with vicious smugglers who murdered them--and might do the same to Lyn if she keeps pushing. Torn between his conscience and his heart, a murder invest - igation and a personal search for the truth, Gunther finds that betrayal and loyalty are often a matter of viewpoint. ...Preorder your book- if you want it personalized, be sure to let us know. We carry Archer Mayor's full line of Joe Gunther books, so we can have any of them autographed for you. Preorder online and pick up in the store or have a book shipped out of town. You can also preorder a book by coming in or calling the bookstore at 802-463-9404.
ISBN-13: 9780312365158 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 09/01/2009
Joe Gunther, head of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, and his team are brought in to not only find and bring down the killers of a fellow officer, but also to infiltrate and shut down the major drug-running operation going through Vermont. 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 collision course with Gunther's investigation... ...Preorders can be autographed. Preorder online or come in or call the bookstore at 802-463-9404.