Marked Man by Archer Mayor
A year after Nathon Lyon died of seemingly natural causes in the former mill which he converted into a 150,000-square foot living space, it’s discovered that he was murdered. Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation team are called in and soon discover that Nathan is not who he appeared to be. He has a past drenched in mob connections and the relationship among his family members who live and work in the converted mill is a complicated web. When more family members begin dying, Joe knows he and the VBI have some work in front of them to unravel this mystery.
Mayor lays all the pieces of this mystery out like a jigsaw puzzle. A private investigator hired by one of the family businesses headquartered in the former mill and a pair of old mobsters looking into a mob hit add more pieces to the puzzle. Mayor’s real skill comes when he begins to assemble all these disparate puzzle pieces into a solution that is both surprising and satisfying. The characters are well-drawn, each with distinctive traits and real personality. The members of Joe’s VBI team particularly so. They all have very different styles but their shared curiosity and thoughtfulness provide a common thread that makes it easy to understand why they function so well as a team.
The story is a little slow at times, particularly in the middle, but great characters and a skillfully assembled mystery make this a book and series worth checking out.
I was provided a copy of this book by the publisher.
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