They All Fall Down
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Hannah had a perfect life in London—a loving husband, a great job—until she did something shocking. Something that she doesn’t quite understand herself; and now she has landed herself in a high-risk psychiatric unit.Since Hannah has been admitted, two women have died, including Charlie, one of her closest friends in the institution. It’s a high-risk unit, the authorities say. Deaths happen. But Hannah knows Charlie wouldn’t have killed herself. She is convinced there’s a serial killer picking off the patients one by one, passing their deaths off as suicides. But why? And who will believe her?Corinne, Hannah’s mother, is worried sick about her eldest daughter. She hates that she’s ended up in the unit, though she knows it’s the best place for her to get the treatment she needs. At first, Corinne assumes Hannah’s outlandish claims about a killer in the unit are just another manifestation of her psychological condition, but as she starts to uncover strange inconsistencies surrounding the unit's charismatic director, Dr. Roberts, she begins to wonder if her daughter might have stumbled upon the truth.But who can Corinne trust, when she doesn’t even trust her own daughter?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this tense psychological thriller from British author Cohen (Dying for Christmas), Hannah, a young married woman living in London, did something bad that has led to her confinement at the Meadows, a private psychiatric clinic in the country. Hannah's psychiatrist, Dr. Oliver Roberts to her "guru, Svengali, saint, sage, saviour" is disturbed by her insistence that her fellow patients are being murdered. Despite efforts to persuade Hannah that the deaths were unfortunate suicides, neither the staff nor her family can get Hannah to drop the matter and focus on her recovery. Corrinne, Hannah's mother, hopes to assuage her daughter's fears by looking into Hannah's suspicions about Dr. Roberts and his past. As the evidence builds against the psychiatrist and those around him, Corinne must decide whom to trust: her daughter and her fragile sense of reality or the professionals at the Meadows. Cohen convincingly portrays Hannah's shaky belief in her own perceptions and Corinne's determination to risk all to help her child. Only the tangled ending disappoints.
