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Fall Guy: A Joe Gunther Novel (Joe Gunther Series, 33) Hardcover – September 27, 2022

by Archer Mayor (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 508 ratings
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In Archer Mayor's Fall Guy, a body found in the trunk of a stolen car leads Joe Gunther and his team to crucial evidence in an infamous unsolved case from years past.

A high-end stolen car is discovered in Vermont. A car filled with stolen items from a far-flung two state burglary spree. But it's what is in the trunk that brings Joe Gunther and his team from the Vermont Bureau of Investigation. In the trunk is the body of burglar in question - one Don Kalfus. Complicating matters, while the body was found in Vermont, it appears he was probably killed in the next state over, New Hampshire.

The task force charged with finding out why Kalfus is murdered soon faces another problem. Within the pile of stolen cell phones found in the car is evidence of a notorious unsolved child abduction case from years earlier.

Now the seemingly simple case has become more complicated and deadly, leading Gunther's team to be pulled from the New Hampshire coast to near the Canadian border as they attempt to find and capture the psychopath responsible for a tangled, historical web of misery, betrayal, and loss.

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  1. Book 33 of 33
    Joe Gunther Mysteries
  2. Print length
    304 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Minotaur Books
  5. Publication date
    September 27, 2022
  6. Dimensions
    6.55 x 1.35 x 9.55 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    1250224187
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1250224187
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"Another winner in one of the best American procedural series." --Booklist (starred review)

"A heart-pounding tale in which every character, clue, and subplot comes together with purpose... New and returning readers alike will be richly rewarded." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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ARCHER MAYOR, in addition to writing the New York Times bestselling Joe Gunther series, is an investigator for the sheriff's department, the state medical examiner, and has twenty-five years of experience as a firefighter/EMT. He lives near Brattleboro, Vermont.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Minotaur Books (September 27, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250224187
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250224187
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.03 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.55 x 1.35 x 9.55 inches
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Archer Mayor is the author of the highly acclaimed Vermont-based series featuring detective Joe Gunther, which the Chicago Tribune describes as “the best police procedurals being written in America.” His 28th book, TRACE, is now in stores (Sept. 2017 – Minotaur/St. Martin’s Press). He is a past winner of the New England Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Fiction—the first time a writer of crime literature has been so honored. In 2011, Mayor’s 22nd Joe Gunther novel, TAG MAN, earned a place on The New York Times bestseller list for hardback fiction.

Before turning his hand to fiction, Mayor wrote history books, the most notable of which, Southern Timberman: The Legacy of William Buchanan, concerned the lumber and oil business in Louisiana from the 1870s to the 1970s. This book was published in 1988 and very well received; it was republished as a trade paperback in 2009.

Archer Mayor is currently a death investigator for Vermont’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Over the past thirty years, he has also been a detective for the Windham County Sheriff’s Office, a volunteer firefighter/EMT, the publisher of his own backlist, and a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers.

Mayor was brought up in the US, Canada and France and had been employed as a scholarly editor, a researcher for TIME-LIFE Books, a political advance-man, a theater photographer, a newspaper writer/editor, a lab technician for Paris-Match Magazine in Paris, France, and a medical illustrator. In addition to writing novels and occasional articles, Mayor gives talks all around the country, and has been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Young Writers conference in Middlebury, Vermont, and the Colby College seminar on forensic sciences in Waterville, Maine.

Mayor’s critically-acclaimed series of police novels feature Lt. Joe Gunther of the Brattleboro, Vermont, police department. The books, which have been appearing about once a year since 1988, have been published in five languages (if you count British), and routinely gather high praise from such sources as The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, and others, often appearing on their “ten best” yearly lists.

Whereas many writers base their books only on interviews and scholarly research, Mayor’s novels are based on actual experience in the field. The result adds a depth, detail and veracity to his characters and their tribulations that has led The New York Times to call him “the boss man on procedures”.

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Brian Lewis
5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the Lot
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2023
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I have come to really enjoy this police procedural series set in northern New England. As a native New Englander now transplanted to California, it offers a taste of home for me. Normally I would feel that having read 5-6 of the books in the series qualified me as an expert, however this is the 33rd novel featuring Joe Gunther that Archer Mayor has written.

I will say it is the best of the group that I have read and represents a refreshing return to form after the series began to drift away from its core four characters in the Vermont Bureau of Investigations that Joe founded in an earlier book. This is a true police procedural, following the group as they crack a case. Joe is not a rogue cop or a one man band. Readers can follow what is really a pretty complicated plot line because the group discusses the case in frequent meetings that are required to keep the team on track.

Highly recommended. This is a series where you can jump in just about anywhere and be sure of a solid murder mystery. I feel the same way about the series, but as noted, I haven't read them all. Yet.
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Jacquel Goodnight
5.0 out of 5 stars JOE GUNTHER >>IMMORTAL??
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2023
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I’ve read all the Joe Gunther series and love the scenic descriptions, the history lessons, and the team closeness. I do however have realism issues. For a man born in 1933, Joe has a lot of stamina and athleticism, both on the job and off. Judging by the improved modern tech used as well as some of the factual dates( say the floods of 2011), that’s gonna put him long overdue for retirement.
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Michelle7723
4.0 out of 5 stars Series Mystery/Thriller
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2023
A task force at the VBI is trying to solve the murder of a man found in the trunk of a car. The dead man is a known common criminal who’s known for petty thefts, but his body is found with a cell phone of a missing boy from years ago. As the team digs into the murder they find the victim may have been involved in a lot more than petty thefts. This death may just be the catalyst to other crimes that involve some rich and powerful people who have been able to fly under the radar for years.
I enjoyed this book and it seems as if it will the last in a series. I definitely would read more books in this series as the characters on the task force were all eclectic and interesting.

Thank you Minotaur Books and NetGalley for this ARC
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Peter Hildreth
5.0 out of 5 stars Another great read from Atcher Mayor
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2022
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Through use of his actual experience, character development and great writing, Archer gave us another complex and fascinating story. The many twists and turns take you on a roller coaster ride to the surprising but logical conclusion.
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fernflower
5.0 out of 5 stars Great series!
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2023
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I love the Joe Gunther Series. I listened to all 33 of them on Audible. Was sad to run out of them.
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Orion16
5.0 out of 5 stars Back to the main 4 VBI characters
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2023
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Loved it! The thing I liked most was that Mayor centered the book around his VBI team. In some of the later Gunther books, too much writing centers around Rachel, Sally (somewhat), etc. To read a book centering around Joe, Willie, Sam and Lester was refreshing. I loved it!
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Susan Mills
4.0 out of 5 stars It'll make you wonder about peaceful Vermont - fun police procedural
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2022
I picked up this book after listening to Archer Mayor at a small bookstore near Brattleboro which filled beyond its capacity for his author talk. He thoroughly entertained us with amusing anecdotes, charm, and fun facts about local happenings. He’s claimed to be happily rising in age and considering that this may, possibly, be his last Joe Gunther novel. Without reading so much as a paragraph from the new novel, he told us, correctly as it turned out, that he was only giving away the first page or so in his rambling talk.
His police procedural novel is somewhat similarly full of facts: about local Vermont culture and politics, along with New Hampshire, and about high-end police work. I felt like he knew what he was talking about all through the novel; the realism definitely makes it all the more enjoyable.
The whole story was a quick and fun read. As someone else below pointed out, the point of view shifted continuously and rapidly among the members of his investigative team, including but not principally Joe Gunther. The characters are all well-drawn, but because of the skipping about, this book doesn’t really bring out the individual quirks and appeal of each. Willy, perhaps, more than the rest. I think Mayor is a good enough writer to build the suspense and put together a highly readable crime thriller. I wouldn’t nominate him for a Pulitzer, but no matter. There’s wit, subterfuge, rapidly shifting theories of the case (by Gunther and the reader), plenty to keep the reader going.
I found the complexity of the case(s) they were working on to be part of the appeal. One crime led to another and to another, with multiple bad guys intertwined. Complicated, like life, like a more involving story, which this is.
I will do my best to catch up and read a few more in the series. No need, though; each one is sufficient unto itself.
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Snowboard Racer
5.0 out of 5 stars 33 books in the series and they keep getting better!
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2022
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Archer Mayor has done it again. Marked Man was going to be hard to top but Fall Guy has done it. Once again, the characters aren't always as you're led to believe. Character development and interpersonal relationships can make your head spin in a good way. Following several plot lines requires that you pay close attention to the narrative and it all makes sense in the end. The only downside is that I'll have to wait a year for the next one!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Delivery
Reviewed in Canada on November 24, 2023
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I did not like fact that I ordered two books at the same time and they were shipped in two different boxes and delivered at two different times. Surely there is a more efficient way of doing this. I am pleased with the books
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