The Viper
- Published
- 18 July 2023
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9781640095854
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Viper followed On Harrow Hill in July 2023, closing out Dave Gurney as its most recent published installment at 400 pages. It continues John Verdon's run of fair-play puzzle mysteries before the series' announced concluding novel, Ghost Barn, scheduled for September 2026.
Key facts about The Viper
John Verdon wrote The Viper, a novel on our list. It has been out since 18 July 2023. The book has 400 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781640095854 to find the main one.
The Viper is book 8 of 8 in the Dave Gurney series. The series has 8 published books. However, the series starts with Think of a Number (2010). It is also the latest book in the series with a full release date.
That series sits on our mystery shelf. It is also the latest published John Verdon book on file.
About John Verdon
John P. Verdon was born January 1, 1942, in the Bronx, New York, and educated at Regis High School and Fordham University. He spent his early career as a creative director in New York advertising agencies before retiring with his wife, Naomi, to a rural property in the western foothills of the Catskill Mountains, where he spent roughly a decade designing and building Shaker-style furniture. See every John Verdon book in order.
Its place in Dave Gurney
The Viper is book 8 in the Dave Gurney series. It follows On Harrow Hill. See the full Dave Gurney reading order.
Dave Gurney is a retired NYPD homicide detective -- one of the department's most celebrated, with an unmatched closure record -- who moves with his wife Madeleine to a farmhouse in rural upstate New York expecting a quiet retirement, and instead keeps getting pulled back into puzzle-box murder investigations that only his particular gift for pattern recognition can unravel. John Verdon launched the series in 2010 with Think of a Number , in which a stranger mails Gurney's old acquaintance a letter correctly…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781640095854
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781640096493