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Proof Positive (2014)

by Archer Mayor(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1250026393 (ISBN13: 9781250026392)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Minotaur Books

series

Joe Gunther

review 1: Archer Mayor continues to write suspenseful and enjoyable books about Vermont. In this case, a senator sends hit men into Vermont to kill a recluse who is a hoarder. The dead man, Ben Kendall, served as a photographer in Viet Nam, and is a relative of Joe Gunther's current girlfriend, Beverly Hillstrom, the medical examiner of Vermont. Beverly's daughter, Rachel, has been doing a video documentary of Kendall and has convinced the art museum of the University of Vermont to exhibit some of Ben's photographs of Viet Nam and some of hers of Ben's house. Soon, Rachel is in danger;Joe has his work cut out to catch the hit men and to find the person who hired them, as well as why the person wants Rachel and others killed.
review 2: "Proof Positive" is a fine piece... more of writing about the work of the Vermont-based detective Joe Gunther and his cohorts. Pretty tightly written. I get the idea (I can't recall offhand the other "Gunther" book in the series I've read)that the hero's a pretty nice fellow, while being a competent and creative law enforcement officer and suited to his environment. Maybe looking at the photo of the author scrunched into his pose with his little doggie (a poodle?) helps. This story is not bloated with pages of self-aggrandizing, foul-mouthed, descriptions of the protagonist's sad and twisted life's experiences, and for a change I enjoyed, too, the restraint Archer Mayor demonstrates in sharing sex and intimacy scenes just to explain that his characters are sometimes appealing human beings. Thumbs up. But, hey, now, did the butler have anything to do with this? less

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