Author: Archer Mayor Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Fiction
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ISBNs: 9780979812231 0979812232 |
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When a reclusive market gardener's death proves to stem from a 20 year-old bullet wound, Lt. Joe Gunther is presented with a very cold homicide to solve. But who was the victim exactly? A deeply private man eking out an ascetic existence from a hardscrabble mountain field, Abraham Fuller was virtually unknown to his neighbors, in the manner of someone pursuing more than mere solitude. The discovery of a duffle of unmarked bills and a body buried in the garden patch suggests that Fuller had motives beyond misanthropy. Nor is it such a cold case either, as someone seems willing to kill to ensure that old secrets remain buried.The fourth Joe Gunther mystery, The Skeleton's Knee sends Lt. Gunther on an investigation spanning thousands of miles and reaching back decades, to solve a crime whose deepest roots seem to lie in Chicago's troubled summer of 1968. It's easy to see why the New York Times bestselling Mayor has been described as producing "the best police-procedural series being written in America."
This book is part of the "Joe Gunther" series. Here are some other books from this series:
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 | "The Catch" First published in 2008 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Chat" First published in 2007 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Second Mouse" First published in 2006 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Surrogate Thief" First published in 2004 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Gatekeeper" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Sniper's Wife" First published in 2002 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Occam's Razor" First published in 1999 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Disposable Man" First published in 1997 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Bellows Falls" First published in 1996 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Ragman's Memory" First published in 1995 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Dark Root" First published in 1994 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Scent of Evil" First published in 1991 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Borderlines" First published in 1990 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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 | "Tag Man" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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