All Fall Down - Softcover

Thompson, Carlene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312984626 ISBN 13: 9780312984625

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2004

Synopsis

When the brutally mutilated body of a local teenager is found in the woods near a West Virginia town, a young widow must uncover the true killer to save herself and her daughter.

About this title

About the Authors

Carlene Thompson was born in West Virginia and has an academic background in English. She lives in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where she teaches part-time for Marshall University. The author of eight books, she spends her free time caring for her many dogs and cats, including a black, golden-eyed feline named Rhiannon.

Carlene Thompson is the author of Last Whisper, Black for Remembrance, Nowhere to Hide, and Don’t Close Your Eyes, among other books. She attended college at Marshall University and earned her Ph.D. in English from Ohio State University. She taught at the University of Rio Grande before leaving to focus on her writing full-time. Besides writing, she spends her time caring for the many dogs and cats she's adopted. A native West Virginian, she lives with her husband Keith in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

From the Back Cover

Blaine Avery longed to live happily ever after in the picturesque West Virginia town where she was born. She never imagined she might also die there--any day now...

Few locals believe Sinclair's wealthy golden boy Martin Avery actually took his own life-or that his beautiful young widow had nothing to do with his death. Well aware of the rumors behind her back, Blaine Avery is focused on managing her late husband's finances and raising her adolescent stepdaughter...until her serene woodland property yields a gruesome discovery.

For the second time in six months, Sheriff Logan Quint has been called out to the Avery place, where another corpse has been found. This time, it belongs to a teenage girl who had everything to live for. But if Rosie Van Zandt didn't kill herself...who did?

As the once sleepy town reels from the rash of so-called suicides, Blaine regrets the day she ever came home. Only Logan is willing to accept her innocence-or her suspicions. For Blaine is desperate to clear her name, and dead certain somebody intends to destroy it. Somebody who calls her in the dead of night, taunting her with the childhood rhyme: Ring around the rosy, a pocket full of posey, ashes, ashes, we...

All Fall Down

"Had me guessing to the end. All Fall Down will keep you turning the pages until you reach the startling conclusion. A real spine-chiller."
-Judith Kelman, author of Summer of Storms

Edition details

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312984626
• ISBN 13: 9780312984625
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 304