Contents ( 19)
The Company She Kept
Proof Positive
Three Can Keep a Secret
Paradise City
Tag Man
Red Herring
The Price of Malice
The Catch
Chat
The Second Mouse
St. Albans Fire
The Surrogate Thief
Gatekeeper
The Sniper’s Wife
Tucker Peak
The Marble Mask
Occam’s Razor
The Disposable Man
Bellows Falls
The Ragman’s Memory
The Dark Root
Fruits of the Poisonous Tree
The Skeleton’s Knee
Scent of Evil
Borderlines
Open Season
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ARCHER MAYOR, in addition to writing the New York Times bestselling Joe Gunther series, is a death investigator for the state medical examiner and has twenty-five years of experience as a firefighter/EMT. He lives near Brattleboro, Vermont. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Chapter Eleven
- Chapter Twelve
- Chapter Thirteen
- Chapter Fourteen
- Chapter Fifteen
- Chapter Sixteen
- Also by Archer Mayor
- About the Author
- Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
First published in the United States by Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group
FALL GUY. Copyright © 2022 by Archer Mayor. All rights reserved For information, address St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.
www.minotaurbooks.com
Cover design by Rowen Davis and David Baldeosingh Rotstein
Cover art: people, car, mist, and trees © Drunaa/Trevillion Images
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Mayor, Archer, author.
Title: Fall guy : a Joe Gunther novel / Archer Mayor.
Description: First Edition. | New York : Minotaur Books, 2022. | Series: Joe Gunther series ; 33
Identifiers: LCCN 2022019724 | ISBN 9781250224187 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250224194 (ebook)
Subjects: LCGFT: Mystery fiction. | Novels.
Classification: LCC PS3563.A965 F35 2022 | DDC 813/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022019724
eISBN 9781250224194
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First Edition: 2022