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Book Review of All Fall Down

All Fall Down
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Blaine Avery longed to live happlily 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 that the golden goy Martin actually took his own life - rather his young beautiful widow, Blaine had nothing to do with his death. Well aware of hte rumors behind her back, she is focused on managing her late husband's finances and raising her teenaged stepdaughter... until her serene woodland property yields a gruesome discovery. For the 2nd time in 6 months Sheriff Quint has been called to the Avery place where a body has been found. This time belonging to a teenage girl, but if Rosie 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 moved home. Only Sheriff Quint is willing to accept her innocence. Somebody calls her in the dead of night taunting her with the childhood rhyme: Ring around the rosy, a pocket full of posy, ashes, ashes, we.... ALL FALL DOWN