Open Season, 1st in the Joe Gunther police procedural mysteries by Archer Mayor, is free in two venues, courtesy of re-publisher Gere Donovan Press, who've also kindly given us some
freebie Joe R. Lansdale stories which I encourage you to check out if you like award-winning horror/thriller/sci-fi tales.
Currently free @
Amazon and
iTunes (both available to Canadians). 99 cents @
B&N and not available via Kobo or Sony (it looks like they're going through DTP/PubIt/whatever the iTunes store has for self-publishers).
If you find out you like the story, the 2nd & 3rd in the series,
Borderlines and
Scent of Evil, are regularly priced at $4.99 in all venues, which looks cheap in comparison to the $7-10 that the rest of the volumes by a different publisher are going for.
Except for
Chat, #18, which is currently deep-discounted as what looks like a special promotion by Grand Central Publishing, for $1.99 in all stores:
Amazon,
B&N,
Sony, and
Kobo linked for your 1-click convenience in case you want to stock up in advance.
Description
Lt. Joe Gunther of the Brattleboro, Vermont police force has a serious problem: in a community where a decade could pass without a single murder, the body count is suddenly mounting. Innocent citizens are being killed—and others set-up—seemingly orchestrated by a mysterious ski-masked man.
Signs suggest that a three year-old murder trial might lie at the heart of things, but it’s a case that many in the department would prefer remained closed. A man of quiet integrity, Lt. Gunther knows that he must pursue the case to its conclusion, wherever it leads.
Open Season is the first of Archer Mayor’s Joe Gunther novels, a series of gripping police procedurals set in New England, where small-town charm, stoicism and civility sometimes conceal brutal truths.