All Fall Down

When the savagely mutilated body of a local teenager is found in the woods near a West Virginia town, a woman wrongly accused of killing her husband is fingered for the crime. Original.

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