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brents 's review for:
Open Season
by Archer Mayor
For a long time I've been looking for a detective series that has the qualities I like in the Bosch novels. Namely police procedural with a good character for the main homicide detective and a plot that reads as a whodunit style mystery. I've tried several with varying degrees of success, but not really checked all those boxes. I stumbled upon these Joe Gunther books by Archer Mayor because they are all included in the Audible plus catalog so they are free with my membership. I tried one of the more recent entries, Bomber's Moon, and it was good enough so I decided to go back to the beginning of the series and try book 1.
Open Season was a really nice surprise and a much better book than Bomber's Moon. The case starts out in a very intriguing way with a string of crimes that are much more than what they first appear to be at face value. The plot gets more layered from there involving a mysterious masked man, a violent murder for which the person in prison may be innocent, and a cover-up conspiracy. It's on the main character of Lt. Joe Gunther to sort it all out. The story is told from his POV only similar to the Bosch novels, and we get to see him walk through every step of the investigation and unravel the multiple threads. The plot is resolved in a way that is satisfying if not perfect in my opinion. What was most surprising is that this book was written in 1988 yet, with some minor details of the forensics not withstanding, this story doesn't really feel that dated at all.
If you like a good detective mystery I think you would like this book, and the entire series seems to available on Audible if you have a subscription.
Open Season was a really nice surprise and a much better book than Bomber's Moon. The case starts out in a very intriguing way with a string of crimes that are much more than what they first appear to be at face value. The plot gets more layered from there involving a mysterious masked man, a violent murder for which the person in prison may be innocent, and a cover-up conspiracy. It's on the main character of Lt. Joe Gunther to sort it all out. The story is told from his POV only similar to the Bosch novels, and we get to see him walk through every step of the investigation and unravel the multiple threads. The plot is resolved in a way that is satisfying if not perfect in my opinion. What was most surprising is that this book was written in 1988 yet, with some minor details of the forensics not withstanding, this story doesn't really feel that dated at all.
If you like a good detective mystery I think you would like this book, and the entire series seems to available on Audible if you have a subscription.