All Fall Down
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Men are dying unexpectedly in Charlotte, North Carolina-all victims of bizarre accidents. No one will call these deaths murder.
No one except small-town cop Melanie May. She sees the pattern: a serial killer targeting men who have slipped through the fingers of justice. Alone with her awful certainty, Melanie risks her career to convince Connor Parks, a troubled FBI profiler, that she's right.
Suddenly Melanie is in the limelight, lauded for uncovering the Dark Angel. But her involvement makes her a target. For as she and Connor study the victims, their deaths, the signature the murderer leaves at every scene, Melanie comes face-to-face with the terrible truth. The profile Connor's created fits someone in her own life...a profile of a cunning killer, one without remorse and bent on vengeance.
A killer who will not stop until... All Fall Down.
Erica Spindler
No matter how innocent the story being relayed to me is, I can twist it into something pretty damn frightening. I've learned the real trick is not sharing these versions with those relaying the story. It tends to make people avoid me.” ~ Erica Spindler A New York Times and International bestselling author, Erica Spindler's skill for crafting engrossing plots and compelling characters has earned both critical praise and legions of fans. Published in 25 countries, her stories have been lauded as “thrill-packed page turners, white- knuckle rides and edge-of-your-seat whodunits.” Raised in Rockford, Illinois, Erica had planned on being an artist, earning a BFA from Delta State University and an MFA from the University of New Orleans in the visual arts. In June of 1982, in bed with a cold, she picked up a romance novel for relief from daytime television. She was immediately hooked, and soon decided to try to write one herself. She leaped from romance to suspense in 1996 with her novel Forbidden Fruit, and found her true calling. Her novel Bone Cold won the prestigious Daphne du Maurier Award for excellence. A Romance Writers of America Honor Roll member, she received a Kiss of Death Award for her novels Forbidden Fruit and Dead Run and was a three-time RITA® Award finalist. Publishers Weekly awarded the audio version of her novel Shocking Pink a Listen Up Award, naming it one of the best audio mystery books of 1998. Erica lives just outside New Orleans, Louisiana, with her husband and two sons and is busy at work on her next thriller.
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Reviews for All Fall Down
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I think I have read this one...
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To me this book was not as good as some of Spindler's previous novels, However I really enjoy the characters and their development. I liked the basic idea of the story, the climax and conclusion were well put together and very suspenseful. I don't know about anyone else who has read this book, but I knew who the killer was all along, which I sometimes don't like in a book. It was shocking that Mia turned the way she did, I was not expecting that. I felt bad for Ashley, that girl sure had been through alot. One thing I notice about Erica Spindler's writing style is that if someone is getting murdered, sexual assulted etc, she is very vivid in describing what is going on, in the form of sexual details and so forth...however when she writes a love scene between two characters who are falling in love, there is no detailed love scene at all. They start to kiss, head to the bedroom and it's over with. I don't like this. Can't she write a love scene?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Melanie May is a small-town cop with dreams of being bigger, and Connor Parks is an FBI profiler on his way down. They meet investigating the case of a local golden girl, and form a mutual respect. When Melanie discovers a fatal rash of apparent accidents happening to local men, she notices that all of them were abusers and batterers. Connor is the only one who believes her theory that they might have a serial killer on the loose. This book read like an extended, more intimate and detailed episode of "Criminal Minds." That is a compliment. What I was struck most by while reading this book was the authenticity of it. Spindler's characters are extremely real, even her heroine. Many mystery/thriller novels feature a protagonist who is so perfect and brilliant that they don't seem like real people. Even when they are 'flawed,' their flaws make them a better cop/prosecutor/investigator. Melanie's flaws actually impede her investigation at times, which is how things would be in real life. Also, in other novels, every lead pans out, every suspect talks, and every hunch is right. I understand that these are conventions to move the plot along, but the investigation in Spindler's novel takes months, almost a year, and while some parts of the book are almost a 'montage,' we are treated to a lot of the fits and starts of the reality of investigating a crime like this. Of course, all the plot points have to come to a cohesive conclusion at the end, but Spindler's conclusion does not feel hasty or forced, rather it's exhilarating. While I had figured out who the Dark Angel was by page 300, I was also surprised by a lot of the information revealed at the end. Also, I read this more than 500 page novel in less than two days. It was quite the page turner, but not one of those where the chapters are like a paragraph and most of the pages are blank space between chapters, so you feel like the whole thing could have been condensed into 120 pages had not there been a 'cliffhanger' after each paragraph. Another added bonus is the benefit of the story being told from many different perspectives, not just the main character and the killer. Melanie's sisters and other officers involved have chapters where we learn about their thoughts and motivations. Sometimes this is hard to keep track of or feels disjointed, but this author manages it quite smoothly. I recommend this book quite highly.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of her best. Great twist!