Archer Mayor Books in Order
Archer Mayor has written 36 books, published between 1988 and 2022. The first book is Open Season (1988) and the newest is Fall Guy (2022). Publication order is the reading order below. 33 of the 36 books listed here are in the Joe Gunther series, which has its own page: Joe Gunther books in order.
- Books
- 36
- Published
- 1988–2022
- Confirmed
- 36 of 36 titles
- Pages on record
- 8,698 in 28 of 36 books
- Reading time
- 145–217 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 8,698 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 28 of 36 titles with a page count on record.
Joe Gunther is the Vermont policeman at the centre of Archer Mayor's procedurals. Open Season (1988) starts a run of 36 catalogued books reaching Fall Guy in 2022, with Brattleboro and the state's drug trade recurring in the subject records. Short stories and non-fiction sit beside the novels, and nothing later than 2022 is catalogued.
How many Archer Mayor books are there?
Archer Mayor has 36 books, released between 1988 and 2022. 33 of them belong to the Joe Gunther series.
Archer Mayor Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 36 Archer Mayor books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 119883303/4
- 219882883/4
- 319902763/4
- 41991–3/4
- 519922943/4
- 619932903/4
- 719943103/4
- 81995–3/4
- 919963523/4
- 1019973143/4
- 111999–3/4
- 122000–3/4
- 1320012463/4
- 1420023393/4
- 1520033523/4
- 1620042943/4
- 1720053413/4
- 1820062453/4
- 1920073783/4
- 2020082063/4
- 2120093083/4
- 2220103043/4
- 2320114213/4
- 242012–3/4
- 2520123203/4
- 2620133363/4
- 2720143203/4
- 2820153043/4
- 2920173043/4
- 3020173363/4
- 3120182913/4
- 322019–3/4
- 3320193113/4
- 3420202883/4
- 352021–3/4
- 362022–3/4
Archer Mayor series and characters in order
The character linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Joe Gunther books in order 35 books
Archer Mayor books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. A group whose heading is a link has its own reading-order page; the other groups have no page of their own on this site.
Joe Gunther books in order
33 books by Archer Mayor- 1. Open Season
- 2. Borderlines
- 3. Scent of Evil
- 4. The Skeleton's Knee
- 5. Fruits of the Poisonous Tree
- 6. The Dark Root
- 7. The Ragman's Memory
- 8. Bellows Falls
- 9. The Disposable Man
- 10. Occam's Razor
- 11. The Marble Mask
- 12. Tucker Peak
- and 21 more in the table above
Joe Gunther Short Stories/Novellas
2 books2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Archer Mayor Non-Fiction
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Archer Mayor books in order?
You only need to read Archer Mayor books in order within the Joe Gunther series, which holds 33 of the 36 Archer Mayor books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Archer Mayor
Start with Open Season (1988), the first Joe Gunther book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest Archer Mayor book?
Fall Guy (2022) is the newest Archer Mayor book released so far.
Is there a new Archer Mayor book coming?
No next Archer Mayor book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Archer Mayor at a glance
- Paused
- No new Archer Mayor title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Archer Mayor books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 8,698 pages across the 28 of 36 books with a recorded length, a median of 309 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Archer Mayor books, 12 of 36, were published in the 2010s.
What the Archer Mayor books are about
25 of the 36 Archer Mayor books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: gunther, joe (fictitious character) is tagged on 14 of 25. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Gunther, joe (fictitious character) 14 of 25 books
- Joe Gunther (Fictitious character) 14 of 25 books
- Police 13 of 25 books
- Mystery & detective, police procedural 12 of 25 books
- Vermont 10 of 25 books
- Crime 7 of 25 books
- Investigation 7 of 25 books
- Murder 7 of 25 books
- Mystery & detective 6 of 25 books
- Brattleboro (vt.) 4 of 25 books
- Burglars 2 of 25 books