We look forward to seeing you on your next visit to the library. Find a location near you.

The Sniper's Wife
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)

Book Cover
Average Rating
Author:
Mayor, Archer
Series:
Joe Gunther mysteries volume 13.
Published:
Grand Central Publishing 2008
Status:
Available from OverDrive
Description
The harrowing call comes from the NYPD. Willy's ex-wife, Mary, has been found dead in her Lower East Side apartment and Willy is asked to identify the body. Torn from his beloved Vermont, Willy returns to the city of his hard-drinking youth with misgivings that deepen when he sees Mary's sad corpse on a gurney. Because of a fresh puncture mark in her arm, the police think she overdosed. Yet Willy has doubts. Driven by loss and guilt, he searches deeper and deeper into his past, to a long-ago Vietnam where he was a merciless loner known as the Sniper. Soon Willy will answer for his old sins...and live up to his chilling nickname.
Also in This Series
Formats
Adobe EPUB eBook
Works on all eReaders (except Kindles), desktop computers and mobile devices with reading apps installed.
Sample Sample 
Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
Sample Sample 
OverDrive Read
Sample Sample 
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
More Like This
Other Editions and Formats
Choose a Format
Hoopla eAudiobook
      Show Edition
Available Online
Online Hoopla Collection
Check Out Hoopla
OverDrive eAudiobook
      Show Edition
Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 2
  Quick Copy View
Check Out OverDrive
OverDrive eBook
      Show Edition
Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection
Check Out OverDrive
More Copies In LINK+
Loading LINK+ Copies...
Subjects
Subjects
Fiction
African American Fiction
Mystery
Thriller
More Details
Format:
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Street Date:
12/14/2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780446554497, 9781599956237
ASIN:
B001N2ZWYI
Librarian Reviews
Published Reviews
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

Archer Mayor. (2008). The Sniper's Wife. Grand Central Publishing.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Archer Mayor. 2008. The Sniper's Wife. Grand Central Publishing.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Archer Mayor, The Sniper's Wife. Grand Central Publishing, 2008.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Archer Mayor. The Sniper's Wife. Grand Central Publishing, 2008.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Copy Details
LibraryOwnedAvailable
Shared Digital Collection11
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
7523acbc-3b8a-179f-0066-96f2169bc75a
Go To Grouped Work
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Jun 12, 2018 18:28:57
Date Updated:
Mar 16, 2023 05:22:55
Last Metadata Check:
Apr 28, 2024 09:58:59
Last Metadata Change:
Jun 04, 2023 15:25:05
Last Availability Check:
Apr 28, 2024 09:59:02
Last Availability Change:
Aug 04, 2023 17:59:41
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
May 02, 2024 02:13:31

OverDrive Product Record

images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0017-1/{2708BAC2-47F3-44DA-86EC-ADAB6461C55C}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0017-1/{2708BAC2-47F3-44DA-86EC-ADAB6461C55C}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0017-1/270/8BA/C2/{2708BAC2-47F3-44DA-86EC-ADAB6461C55C}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0017-1/270/8BA/C2/{2708BAC2-47F3-44DA-86EC-ADAB6461C55C}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780446554497
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781599956237
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B001N2ZWYI
      • name: Kindle Book
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780446554497
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9780892967674
mediaType
eBook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Archer Mayor
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
The Sniper's Wife
seriesId
535132
dateAdded
2012-09-28T18:17:10.827Z
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=202153
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
          • id: 1151
sortTitle
Snipers Wife Joe Gunther Mystery Series Book 13
crossRefId
202153
series
Joe Gunther
id
2708BAC2-47F3-44DA-86EC-ADAB6461C55C
starRating
3.6

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain
False
formats
      • fileName: TheSnipersWife_9780446554497_202153
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 1548940
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780446554497
      • rights:
            • type: Copying
            • value: 0
            • type: Printing
            • value: 0
            • type: Lending
            • value: 0
            • type: ReadAloud
            • value: 0
            • type: ExpirationRights
            • value: 0
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • onSaleDate: 12/14/2008
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/270/8BA/C2/SnipersWife9780446554497.epub
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2708BAC2-47F3-44DA-86EC-ADAB6461C55C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: TheSnipersWife_9781599956237_202153
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781599956237
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B001N2ZWYI
      • name: Kindle Book
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • onSaleDate: 12/14/2008
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/270/8BA/C2/SnipersWife9780446554497.epub
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2708BAC2-47F3-44DA-86EC-ADAB6461C55C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: TheSnipersWife_9780446554497_202153
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780446554497
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 12/14/2008
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/270/8BA/C2/SnipersWife9780446554497.epub
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2708BAC2-47F3-44DA-86EC-ADAB6461C55C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Mayor, Archer
      • bioText:

        Archer Mayor lives in Newfane, Vermont. He writes full time and volunteers as a firefighter/EMT. He is also a death investigator for the state's medical examiner and a part-time police officer for the Bellows Falls Police Department. Mayor has lived all over the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and has been variously employed as a scholarly editor, a researcher for TIME-LIFE Books, a political advance man, a theater photographer, a newspaper writer/editor, and a medical illustrator. He won the New England Independent Booksellers Award for Best Fiction in 2004. He has also written short stories, two books on American history, and many articles.
        You can learn more about Mayor at www.archermayor.com.

      • name: Archer Mayor
publishDate
2008-12-14T00:00:00-05:00
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
The Sniper's Wife
fullDescription
The harrowing call comes from the NYPD. Willy's ex-wife, Mary, has been found dead in her Lower East Side apartment and Willy is asked to identify the body. Torn from his beloved Vermont, Willy returns to the city of his hard-drinking youth with misgivings that deepen when he sees Mary's sad corpse on a gurney. Because of a fresh puncture mark in her arm, the police think she overdosed. Yet Willy has doubts. Driven by loss and guilt, he searches deeper and deeper into his past, to a long-ago Vietnam where he was a merciless loner known as the Sniper. Soon Willy will answer for his old sins...and live up to his chilling nickname.
seriesId
535132
reviews
      • premium: True
      • source: Publisher's Weekly
      • content:

        Starred review from September 30, 2002
        This intricate, first-rate thriller delves into the troubled past of Mayor's most complex character, Detective Willy Kunkle, of Joe Gunther's Vermont Bureau of Investigation. When Kunkle learns that his ex-wife Mary overdosed on heroin in Manhattan, he hastens there to identify her body. Suspecting murder, he convinces Ward Ogden, a high-ranking NYPD detective, to reopen the case. In tracing Mary's life in New York, Kunkle revisits his own Manhattan childhood, membership in the NYPD, the trauma of Vietnam and strained relations with his dysfunctional family. When he's arrested during a raid on an illegal club, Joe and Detective Sammie Martens, Kunkle's lover, come to New York, and the two country cops prove they're as astute as their city counterparts. As the plot becomes more convoluted—but never confusing—Kunkle's quest for Mary's killer parallels Ogden's and Joe's. A harrowing chase through New England leads them all to the defunct Portsmouth Naval Prison in New Hampshire and a heart-stopping finale. Mayor's understanding of human behavior makes his tortured protagonist an unforgettable character. His powers of description not confined to Vermont, the author imbues well-known and obscure New York neighborhoods with a sparkling sense of place. A riveting plot and exceptional writing will surely enhance Mayor's reputation. (Oct. 22)FYI:Mayor's last Joe Gunther mystery was
        Tucker Peak (Forecasts, Oct. 15, 2001).

      • premium: True
      • source: Booklist
      • content:

        September 15, 2002
        In this surprising change of pace for Mayor's Joe Gunther series, the setting moves from rural Vermont to some of New York's meanest streets, and the protagonist switches from the easygoing Gunther to one of his detectives, loose cannon Willy Kunkle. When Kunkle is asked to identify his ex-wife's body in Manhattan, he embarks on what quickly becomes a journey of self-discovery, with the tightly wound former Vietnam sniper forced to confront not only his wartime experiences and postwar alcoholism but also some even darker secrets from his childhood. It's all part of proving that his ex-wife did not die of an accidental drug overdose but was murdered. Tagging along for support but forced to keep to the background are Gunther and Sammie Martens, also a cop and the woman in Kunkle's troubled life. Mayor, a master of the slow-paced, relationship-driven small-town mystery, proves equally capable here of tightening his grip around the neck of the hard-boiled novel--but without losing his feel for the subtlety of human interaction.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2002, American Library Association.)

popularity
228
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/2708bac2-47f3-44da-86ec-adab6461c55c/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
id
2708bac2-47f3-44da-86ec-adab6461c55c
starRating
3.6
readingOrder
13
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0017-1/{2708BAC2-47F3-44DA-86EC-ADAB6461C55C}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0017-1/{2708BAC2-47F3-44DA-86EC-ADAB6461C55C}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0017-1/270/8BA/C2/{2708BAC2-47F3-44DA-86EC-ADAB6461C55C}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0017-1/270/8BA/C2/{2708BAC2-47F3-44DA-86EC-ADAB6461C55C}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
subjects
      • value: Fiction
      • value: African American Fiction
      • value: Mystery
      • value: Thriller
publishDateText
12/14/2008
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9780892967674
mediaType
eBook
shortDescription
The harrowing call comes from the NYPD. Willy's ex-wife, Mary, has been found dead in her Lower East Side apartment and Willy is asked to identify the body. Torn from his beloved Vermont, Willy returns to the city of his hard-drinking youth with misgivings that deepen when he sees Mary's sad corpse on a gurney. Because of a fresh puncture mark in her arm, the police think she overdosed. Yet Willy has doubts. Driven by loss and guilt, he searches deeper and deeper into his past, to a long-ago Vietnam where he was a merciless loner known as the Sniper. Soon Willy will answer for his old sins...and live up to his chilling nickname.
sortTitle
Snipers Wife Joe Gunther Mystery Series Book 13
crossRefId
202153
series
Joe Gunther
publisher
Grand Central Publishing
bisacCodes
      • code: FIC031010
      • description: Fiction / Thrillers / Crime
      • code: FIC049050
      • description: Fiction / African American & Black / Mystery & Detective
      • code: FIC050000
      • description: Fiction / Crime