by Archer Mayor
Part of Joe Gunther, book 12
First published 2013
Lt. Joe Gunther faces a puzzle at a high-end Vermont ski resort where condos keep getting robbed. The sheriff handling the case is drowning in work, so Gunther and his team from the newly formed Vermont Bureau of Investigation step in to help. They expect to find a simple thief, but the main suspect has vanished and his girlfriend turns up murdered. The investigation pulls Gunther deeper into a web that includes drug trafficking, environmental extremists, and murder attempts. To crack the case, Gunther and his officers must go undercover in a company town where wealthy residents kill time while service workers keep the resort running. Not everyone in this closed community is who they claim to be. As Gunther navigates between bored millionaires and suspicious employees, he discovers that beneath the resort's polished surface lies a network of secrets that someone will kill to protect.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, closed-community, secrets
Setting: Vermont, Tucker Peak
320 pages · Kindle Edition · MarchMedia LLC
Content warnings: murder, violence