I say deaths, but perhaps all of them were murders. Actually more, if you go back far enough. But Pen never can run far enough and when friendships are betrayed, her secrets are revealed. The perfect place to run away from your past and reinvent yourself. Only Pen knows the reason why.Ĭollege life had seemed like a wonderland of sex, drugs and maybe even love. Within six months of Pen Sheppard starting university, three of her new friends are dead. You don’t have to be a murderer to be guilty. You don’t have to believe in ghosts for the dead to haunt you. That you can fill them in and everything will return to normal.” p.130
Rather, it begins with a minute crack, and then another and another, until they join together, getting bigger and wider and all the time you keep fooling yourself that this can still be fixed.
There isn’t one single moment when the world suddenly splits in two. I've loved all of Aoife's books but I think this is the best yet.Things don’t go wrong in an instant. The combination of art, death and small town secrets makes for a sinister, complex tale that I could not put down. 'Atmospheric and absorbing, When We Fall is an absolute page-turner.' - Sara Foster, author of The Hush This is top-shelf Australian crime.' - Mark Brandi, author of Wimmera and The Others 'A vivid, twisting story that keeps you guessing to the end. Black feathers were found with both bodies but what do they mean?Īs Alex fights for answers to honour the dead, and to discover why her mother fled town as a teenager, good people keep looking the other way, memories become unreliable and secrets threaten to reveal the past.Īlex discovers the truth never dies but it can kill. Maxine McFarlane was pulled from the ocean but with no water in her lungs. The police claim it's an accidental death but there are whispers of murder and that it is not the first.īella Greggs was found dead at the bottom of a ravine but drowned in salt water.
In the wild, coastal town of Merritt, Alex Tillerson and her mother make a shocking find on the beach. Blood lines run deep and in unexpected places. ' It isn't strangers you need to worry about here.
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