Called to the scene of a young woman's supposed suicide, Joe Gunther becomes suspicious about the death, but his investigation is hampered by the local medical examiner and by a trio of dangerous criminals on a crime spree.

Investigating the death of a Vietnam veteran whose PTSD culminated in a hoarding disorder, Joe Gunther learns that the victim's collection of combat photos contains information that a sinister adversary desperately wanted to keep hidden.

"During the height of a particularly brutal Vermont winter, one morning a woman's body is found hanging high above the interstate. The woman, found with the word "dyke" carved on her chest is quickly determined to be the victim of a brutal murder. That alone is enough to bring in Joe Gunther and his VBI (Vermont Bureau of Investigation) team. But when the victim is identified not only as a state senator, bus as an intimate friend of the governor's,...

A frightened old woman kills a man at her door in the middle of the night and Detective Joe Gunther discovers they were co-jurors on a sensational murder trial three years earlier. Several more vicious assaults make Joe suspect that all of the jurors from that trial are now in danger.

When a deputy sheriff is killed during a routine traffic stop--a murder preserved on the cruiser's videotape recording--Joe Gunther, now head of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, is called in to find the killers.

When a nuisance burglar who breaks into the heavily secured homes of wealthy Vermont citizens discovers evidence of a string of murders in one of the homes, Joe Gunther untangles conflicting evidence while the burglar flees for his life.

In Vermont, Lieutenant Joe Gunther seeks the rapist of his girlfriend, who was attacked shortly after Gunther left her bed. All the signs point to a local drunk who has raped before, but precisely because everything is so obvious, Gunther suspects a copycat. By the author of Borderlines.