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

Trace: Joe Gunther Series Series, Book 28
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)

Book Cover
Average Rating
Series:
Published:
St. Martin's Publishing Group 2017
Status:
Available from OverDrive
Description

The Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) has been pulled onto three cases at the same time; meanwhile, VBI head Joe Gunther has to take time off to care for his ailing mother.
Those cases are now in the hands of the individual investigators. Sammie Martens is assigned a murder case. The victim is a young woman, the roommate of the daughter of Medical Examiner Beverly Hillstrom. A recent transplant from Albany, New York, Sammie must find out what put a hit man on the trail of this seemingly innocent young woman.
Lester Spinney takes over a famous cold case, a double murder where a state trooper and a motorist were killed in an exchange of gunfire. Or so it has seemed for years. When Lester is told that the motorist's fingerprints were planted on the gun he's supposed to have fired, it opens the question—who really killed the state trooper?
Willy Kunkle's case starts with a child's discovery of three teeth on a railroad track, leading eventually to a case of possible sabotage against critical military equipment.
In cases that lead the team all over Vermont and nearby, Archer Mayor once again shows why his novels featuring Joe Gunther and the VBI team are among the finest crime fiction today.

Also in This Series
Formats
Adobe EPUB eBook
Works on all eReaders (except Kindles), desktop computers and mobile devices with reading apps installed.
Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
OverDrive Read
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
More Copies In LINK+
Loading LINK+ Copies...
More Details
Format:
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Street Date:
09/26/2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781250113276
ASIN:
B06XFZK7W8
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

Archer Mayor. (2017). Trace: Joe Gunther Series Series, Book 28. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Archer Mayor. 2017. Trace: Joe Gunther Series Series, Book 28. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Archer Mayor, Trace: Joe Gunther Series Series, Book 28. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2017.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Archer Mayor. Trace: Joe Gunther Series Series, Book 28. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2017.

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:
4dd9ac8c-adb2-abef-8398-a1b4c33e8502
Go To Grouped Work
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Jun 12, 2018 19:54:42
Date Updated:
Apr 08, 2023 11:56:13
Last Metadata Check:
Apr 14, 2024 11:44:17
Last Metadata Change:
Dec 11, 2023 13:58:31
Last Availability Check:
Apr 14, 2024 11:44:20
Last Availability Change:
Feb 22, 2024 13:34:07
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Apr 19, 2024 02:10:42

OverDrive Product Record

readingOrder
28
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{5F50A518-4D7D-4287-9079-58D6BB64D602}IMG100.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2390-1/{5F50A518-4D7D-4287-9079-58D6BB64D602}IMG200.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2390-1/{5F50A518-4D7D-4287-9079-58D6BB64D602}IMG150.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2390-1/{5F50A518-4D7D-4287-9079-58D6BB64D602}IMG400.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781250113276
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B06XFZK7W8
      • name: Kindle Book
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781250113276
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9781250113269
mediaType
eBook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Archer Mayor
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
Trace
seriesId
535132
dateAdded
2017-09-08T16:35:25.14Z
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=3198688
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
          • id: 1151
sortTitle
Trace Joe Gunther Series Book 28
crossRefId
3198688
series
Joe Gunther
subtitle
Joe Gunther Series Series, Book 28
id
5F50A518-4D7D-4287-9079-58D6BB64D602
starRating
4.1

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain
False
formats
      • fileName: Trace_9781250113276_3198688
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 3900002
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781250113276
      • 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: 9/26/2017
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5f50a518-4d7d-4287-9079-58d6bb64d602&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: Trace_3198688
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B06XFZK7W8
      • name: Kindle Book
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • onSaleDate: 9/26/2017
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5f50a518-4d7d-4287-9079-58d6bb64d602&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: Trace_9781250113276_3198688
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 2849713
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781250113276
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 9/26/2017
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5f50a518-4d7d-4287-9079-58d6bb64d602&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
keywords
      • value: investigator
      • value: Crime Thrillers
      • value: city
      • value: mayor
      • value: conspiracy
      • value: Mayors
      • value: undercover
      • value: murder mysteries
      • value: Justice
      • value: Organized Crime
      • value: crime
      • value: Deputy
      • value: Detective Stories
      • value: California
      • value: detective
      • value: sheriff
      • value: enforcement
      • value: police detective
      • value: Romantic Suspense
      • value: crime stories
      • value: NYC
      • value: killer
      • value: coroner
      • value: spy
      • value: suspect
      • value: Genre
      • value: trace
      • value: author
      • value: whodunit
      • value: Manhattan
      • value: FBI
      • value: officer
      • value: suspenseful
      • value: Colorado
      • value: haunting
      • value: cops
      • value: sleuth
      • value: serial killer
      • value: Vermont
      • value: homicide
      • value: Law Enforcement
      • value: NYPD
      • value: forensics
      • value: criminal
      • value: mystery writers
      • value: mystery series
      • value: mystery thriller suspense
      • value: mystery authors
      • value: ex cop
      • value: archers
      • value: vermont novels
      • value: archer mayer
      • value: brattleboro
      • value: new england writers
      • value: vermont authors
      • value: vermont murder
      • value: awaiting his return
      • value: tough streets
      • value: literary publications
      • value: investigate family
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Mayor, Archer
      • bioText: ARCHER MAYOR, in addition to writing the New York Times bestselling Joe Gunther series, is an investigator for the sheriff's department, the state medical examiner, and has twenty-five years of experience as a firefighter/EMT. He lives near Brattleboro, Vermont.
      • name: Archer Mayor
imprint
Minotaur Books
publishDate
2017-09-26T00:00:00-04:00
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
Trace
fullDescription

The Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) has been pulled onto three cases at the same time; meanwhile, VBI head Joe Gunther has to take time off to care for his ailing mother.
Those cases are now in the hands of the individual investigators. Sammie Martens is assigned a murder case. The victim is a young woman, the roommate of the daughter of Medical Examiner Beverly Hillstrom. A recent transplant from Albany, New York, Sammie must find out what put a hit man on the trail of this seemingly innocent young woman.
Lester Spinney takes over a famous cold case, a double murder where a state trooper and a motorist were killed in an exchange of gunfire. Or so it has seemed for years. When Lester is told that the motorist's fingerprints were planted on the gun he's supposed to have fired, it opens the question—who really killed the state trooper?
Willy Kunkle's case starts with a child's discovery of three teeth on a railroad track, leading eventually to a case of possible sabotage against critical military equipment.
In cases that lead the team all over Vermont and nearby, Archer Mayor once again shows why his novels featuring Joe Gunther and the VBI team are among the finest crime fiction today.

seriesId
535132
reviews
      • premium: False
      • source: Booklist (starred review)
      • content:

        "Trace is one of the best of a very fine series."

      • premium: False
      • source: Publishers Weekly (starred review)
      • content: "Outstanding... Mayor keeps the suspense high as he showcases each of his detectives' special talents... in this welcome addition to the long-running series."
      • premium: False
      • source: Library Journal

      • content: "Excellent."
      • premium: True
      • source: Publisher's Weekly
      • content:

        Starred review from July 3, 2017
        Bestseller Mayor’s outstanding 28th Joe Gunther novel (after 2016’s Presumption of Guilt) takes the field force commander of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation almost completely out of the picture while spotlighting the work of three subordinates in three separate cases. First, VBI agent Lester Spinney reexamines a closed case, in which a state trooper and motorist killed each other in a shoot-out, after a forensic scientist uncovers a disturbing anomaly in the evidence. Second, a Windsor policeman calls in cop Willy Kunkle after a girl discovers three bloodstained teeth on a stretch of railroad tracks. Third, Samantha Martens, who lives with Willy and their child, investigates the murder of Gunther’s romantic partner’s daughter’s roommate. Mayor keeps the suspense high as he showcases each of his detectives’ special talents—Spinney’s patience and doggedness, Kunkle’s unorthodox but effective rule-bending, and Martens’s bravery and resourcefulness—in this welcome addition to the long-running series. Agent: Molly Friedrich, Friedrich Agency.

      • premium: True
      • source: Kirkus
      • content:

        August 15, 2017
        Can the Vermont Bureau of Investigation get along without Special Agent Joe Gunther (Presumption of Guilt, 2016, etc.)? Joe's 28th case gives them a chance to find out.The Green Mountain State is a beautiful place, but it's not the best spot to recuperate from the Lyme encephalitis afflicting Joe's mother. So Joe squires her to a specialized Missouri facility for state-of-the-art care. While he's away, crime doesn't accommodatingly cease. Jayla Robinson, on the run after nearly killing her seriously abusive boyfriend back in Albany, gets off a bus in Burlington and is promptly hit by a car driven by Rachel Reiling, the daughter of Joe's girlfriend, state medical examiner Dr. Beverly Hillstrom. Dr. Tina Sackman brings to Special Agent Lester Spinney unwelcome new evidence that the traffic stop three years ago that led to the deaths of both Senior Trooper Ryan Paine and Kyle Kennedy, the driver he pulled over, was anything but a routine case of mutually assured destruction. And a 10-year-old girl brings three teeth she's found along the railroad tracks to Sgt. Colin Guyette of the Windsor Police Department. As Joe sits by his mother's bedside cheering her every improvement, Rachel plunges herself into danger back home by inviting Jayla to sleep on the couch in her place till she gets settled; Lester patiently interviews everyone he can imagine might throw some light on that 3-year-old shooting; those teeth lead the VBI on a winding path to an unusually inventive case of sabotage; and Joe returns just in time for a celebratory barbecue. Solid, unspectacular work from all hands, including Mayor, who as usual forgoes high-concept mystery for the slow-burning pleasures of the multitrack regional procedural.

        COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

      • premium: True
      • source: Library Journal
      • content:

        September 1, 2017

        In this latest series entry (after Presumption of Guilt), Joe Gunther's mother has serious health issues, so he leaves the Vermont Bureau of Investigation in Sammie Martens's capable hands. While he's gone, the team juggles multiple cases. Readers who appreciate step-by-step investigations mixed with stories about the team's personal lives will appreciate this excellent procedural.--LH

        Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

      • premium: True
      • source: Booklist
      • content:

        Starred review from September 1, 2017
        Needing to attend to his ailing mother, Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) field commander Joe Gunther appoints Sammie Martens to lead VBI in his absenceand VBI is immediately swamped with potentially big cases. Sammie draws the murder of a young African American woman who had just become the apartment mate of Rachel Reiling, daughter of Beverly Hillstrom, the state's medical examiner and Joe's lover. Willy Kunkel ponders several broken, bloodied teeth found on railroad tracks in a small town, and his investigation leads him to a potential national security crime. Lester Spinney finds something anomalous in the forensic evidence in the case of a routine traffic stop that resulted in the death of a cop and the car's driver. The incident's notoriety makes the possibility of investigatory failures a political bombshell. Gunther's absence from a VBI novel will make fans wonder if Mayor can pull off a series entry without the series star. Mayor can and does. Without Joe's always-interesting musings about his state, Mayor uses Lester to muse in Joe's place. The normally ultra-collaborative team must go solo, and Mayor uses Joe's absence to greatly enrich his readers' understanding of characters they thought they knew. Trace is one of the best of a very fine series.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

popularity
622
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/5f50a518-4d7d-4287-9079-58d6bb64d602/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
id
5f50a518-4d7d-4287-9079-58d6bb64d602
starRating
4.1
readingOrder
28
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{5F50A518-4D7D-4287-9079-58D6BB64D602}IMG100.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2390-1/{5F50A518-4D7D-4287-9079-58D6BB64D602}IMG200.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2390-1/{5F50A518-4D7D-4287-9079-58D6BB64D602}IMG150.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2390-1/{5F50A518-4D7D-4287-9079-58D6BB64D602}IMG400.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
subjects
      • value: Fiction
      • value: Mystery
      • value: Historical Fiction
publishDateText
09/26/2017
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9781250113269
mediaType
eBook
shortDescription

The Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) has been pulled onto three cases at the same time; meanwhile, VBI head Joe Gunther has to take time off to care for his ailing mother.
Those cases are now in the hands of the individual investigators. Sammie Martens is assigned a murder case. The victim is a young woman, the roommate of the daughter of Medical Examiner Beverly Hillstrom. A recent transplant from Albany, New York, Sammie must find out what put a hit man on the trail of this seemingly innocent young woman.
Lester Spinney takes over a famous cold case, a double murder where a state trooper and a motorist were killed in an exchange of gunfire. Or so it has seemed for years. When Lester is told that the motorist's fingerprints were planted on the gun he's supposed to have fired, it opens the question—who really killed the state trooper?
Willy Kunkle's case starts with a child's discovery of three teeth on a railroad track, leading eventually to a case of...

sortTitle
Trace Joe Gunther Series Series Book 28
crossRefId
3198688
series
Joe Gunther
subtitle
Joe Gunther Series Series, Book 28
publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
bisacCodes
      • code: FIC022020
      • description: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
      • code: FIC022060
      • description: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical
      • code: FIC050000
      • description: Fiction / Crime