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The Marble Mask (2000)

by Archer Mayor(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

MarchMedia

series

Joe Gunther

review 1: Vermont is a new setting for my reading adventures. Part of Vermont's interest is the shared border with Canada. Joe Gunther is the sleuth, the head of a new division of Vermont police called the Vermont Bureau of Investigation. The cream of the various police agencies in the state make up this new force. While this is the eleventh novel in the series it is the first I have read. Joe Gunther is a surprise. Other series main characters I have read are meloncholic, alcoholic, have barely surpresed anger issues, part-hermit, or stubborn to the point of uncooperation. Joe is not. He works through each clue carefully following it to the next. He deploys his co-workers to maximize their effectiveness. There is violence but it is generated by the bad guys. He has a social life wi... moreth an independent woman, who doesn't seem to make demands. They make the most of their time together. Very unusual hero. The plot was also very interesting. A body is found high on a Vermont mountain, frozen but not frozen to death. Cause of death a common ice pick. What is very unusual is the man has been dead for 50 years. If he had been at that location all 50 years he would have experienced many freeze-thaw cycles and would have deteriorated. Not so. He is easily identified as a French Canadian head of a prohibition era gang. Now Joe and crew must figure out who done it, and where the body had been all these years.
review 2: This is an international thriller-placed in Stowe, Vermont on top of Mt. Mansfield! A corpse found frozen in a mountain crevice-who did it? Follow Joe Gunther, head of Vermont Bureau of Investigation. Body found with an outdated driver's license ie: expired 1947. He's identified as Jean Deschamps, Quebec? He is found with a puncture wound to his heart and limbs missing?? Who murdered him? It's complex but a page turner. How did he end up preserved on a mountain top for 50 years--read & find out? (pgs. 309) less

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