| Chat with Archer Mayor |
 Archer Mayor is the author of the highly acclaimed, Vermont-based series featuring detective Joe Gunther, which the Chicago Tribune
describes as "the best police procedurals being written in America." He is also the 2004 winner of the New England Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best  Fiction--the first time a writer of crime literature has been so honored.
In addition, Archer is a death investigator for Vermont's Chief Medical Examiner, and a Deputy Sheriff for Windham County, VT.
Archer Mayor's Joe Gunther detective series, 19 books in all, is one of the most enduring and  critically acclaimed police procedural series being written today. For years,
Archer has integrated actual police methodology with intricately detailed plot lines into novels that The New York Times has called "dazzling," and Booklist has said are "among the best cop stories being written today."
 Whereas many writers base their books on only interviews and scholarly research, Mayor's novels are based on actual
experience in the field. The result adds a depth, detail and veracity to his characters and their tribulations that has led The New York Times to call him "the boss man on procedures," and the Arizona Daily Star to write, "Few deliver such well- rounded novels of such consistent high quality."
Archer Mayor--who was brought up in the US, Canada and France--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, a lab
 technician for Paris-Match Magazine in Paris, France, and a medical illustrator. He is a graduate of Yale University. Before turning his hand to fiction, Archer wrote history books.
The Joe Gunther detective series began in 1988 with Open Season, and now includes Borderlines, Scent of Evil, The 
Skeleton's Knee, Fruits of the Poisonous Tree, The Dark Root, The Ragman's Memory, Bellows Falls, The Disposable Man, Occam's Razor, Marble Mask, Tucker Peak, The Sniper's Wife, Gatekeeper, The Surrogate Thief, St. Alban's Fire, The Second Mouse, Chat and The Catch. The Los Angeles
Times featured Scent of Evil in its 1992 year-end list of recommend readings and  proclaimed The Skeleton's Knee "one of the ten best mystery books of the year" in 1993. That book also prompted The New York Times to call Mayor "one of the most sophisticated stylists in the genre," and in 1997, to proclaim The Ragman's Memory
one of only eleven "Notable" mysteries of the year--an honor it repeated in 2002 with The Sniper's Wife.
  
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| Door Prize |
| Archer has donated a copy of "The Catch". This will be award to a lucky chatter during the chat. Remember, you MUST be present to be eligible!
Please feel free to pass this announcement on to anyone or any groups that you think may be interested. Thank you. |
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