Dave Gurney · Book 8

The Viper

by John Verdon

Published
18 July 2023
Pages
400
ISBN-13
9781640095854
Type
novel

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Cover of The Viper

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.

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…

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