by Archer Mayor

In the 16th Joe Gunther mystery, the cop must discover if a series of fires is motivated by real estate developer greed or whether some more personal motive is at stake. Seventeen-year-old Bobby, upset and made restless by his recent breakup from his girlfriend, takes a late-night stroll into his family’s dairy barn, where he faces two unexpected events: the early delivery of a calf and his own incineration when someone sets fire to the barn. Joe Gunther and Willy Kunkle of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation follow the trail of the arsonist, which, oddly enough, leads to Newark, New Jersey.