An unusually adept and daring housebreaker, who apparently steals nothing and leaves Post-it notes, initially is merely an annoyance to the Brattleboro, VT, police. Things change rapidly when the burglar stumbles across a grisly secret and becomes the target of assassins. In Mayor's 22nd Joe Gunther novel, the Vermont Bureau of Investigation head has relatively little to do, leaving the legwork to his staffers and the local police. After a slow start providing back stories for the protagonists, Mayor ups the tension. VERDICT William Dufris provides distinctive voices for the characters, but his Gunther sounds too much like his comical narrator of Steve Hockensmith's "Holmes on the Range" series. Fans of Mayor, police procedurals, and New England-based mysteries should find plenty to like. [The Minotaur hc, published in September, was a New York Times best seller.—Ed.]—Michael Adams, CUNY Graduate Ctr. Lib.
Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high security, alarm-equipped homes to find a Post-It note stuck to their bedside tables reading, "You're it." There is little sign of disturbance anywhere, nothing stolen (that anyone admits) and only a bit of expensive food eaten as a signature. The press loves the story and dubs the burglar the Tag Man. But who is he? And what's he actually doing? In fact, he's quickly running for his life, for what he discovers in one of these houses appears to be proof of a heinous string of murders. But is it?
Joe Gunther, struggling to recover from a devastating personal loss, leads his VBI team to untangle the many conflicting pieces of evidence, while the burglar himself struggles for survival in the no-man's land between the police and the villains. No one knows what to believe or who to trust. Tag Man is running for his life in a way he never imagined possible. No one knows who's watching as they sleep-or who truly did what.
Tag Man is critically acclaimed author Archer Mayor at his very finest.
Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high security, alarm-equipped homes to find a Post-It note stuck to their bedside tables reading, "You're it." There is little sign of disturbance anywhere, nothing stolen (that anyone admits) and only a bit of expensive food eaten as a signature. The press loves the story and dubs the burglar the Tag Man. But who is he? And what's he actually doing? In fact, he's quickly running for his life, for what he discovers in one of these houses appears to be proof of a heinous string of murders. But is it?
Joe Gunther, struggling to recover from a devastating personal loss, leads his VBI team to untangle the many conflicting pieces of evidence, while the burglar himself struggles for survival in the no-man's land between the police and the villains. No one knows what to believe or who to trust. Tag Man is running for his life in a way he never imagined possible. No one knows who's watching as they sleep-or who truly did what.
Tag Man is critically acclaimed author Archer Mayor at his very finest.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940169913361 |
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| Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 10/01/2011 |
| Series: | Joe Gunther Series , #22 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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