They All Fall Down
A Thriller
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3.2 • 66 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
For fans of thrilling contemporary suspense, Rachel Howzell Hall’s brilliant stand-alone novel brings seven sinners to a private island for a reckoning that will leave you breathless.
It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime.
Delighted by a surprise invitation, Miriam Macy sails off to a luxurious private island off the coast of Mexico with six other strangers. Surrounded by miles of open water in the gloriously green Sea of Cortez, Miriam is soon shocked to discover that she and the rest of her companions have been brought to the remote island under false pretenses—and all seven strangers harbor a secret.
Danger lurks in the lush forest and in the halls and bedrooms of the lonely mansion. Sporadic cell-phone coverage and miles of ocean keeps the group trapped in paradise. And strange accidents stir suspicions, as one by one . . .
They all fall down
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APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Rachel Howzell Hall’s masterful thriller is equal parts Agatha Christie and The Twilight Zone. When Miriam Macy gets an invitation to be a reality TV contestant on an isolated Mexican island, it seems too good to be true. It soon turns out Miriam and the six other invitees have been misled—and people start dropping like flies. What do these seven very different travelers have in common, and who wants to kill them? Miriam is a wonderfully complex heroine who’s sometimes sympathetic and sometimes contemptible. By the end of the book, everything you thought you knew going in will be turned upside down. They All Fall Down is an edgy and intense thrill ride.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This cleverly updated version of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None from Hall (A Quiet Storm) stars Miriam Macy, who's going through a difficult patch: her husband has left her for her teenage daughter's dance teacher, she has been let go from her job writing aspirational copy for a clothing catalogue, and she's wanted for questioning by the police for reasons that only become gradually clear to the reader. The one person who has shown her any understanding is her lawyer, Phillip Omeke, and now he's not taking her calls. When she receives an invitation out of the blue to participate in the pilot of a new reality TV show, she sees it as a lifeline. She agrees to the show's conditions and flies from L.A. to Puerto Pe asco, Sonora, Mexico, where a yacht is waiting to whisk her to exclusive Mictlan Island. The other invitees are a former policeman, a coke-sniffing chef, a snooty financial adviser, a nervous nurse, a bitchy lawyer, and a sexy merry widow, whose respective secrets emerge in tantalizing installments. When people start to die, Miriam turns sleuth. Hall slips from funny to darkly frightening with elegant ease.
Customer Reviews
If I could give zero stars, I would
This is quite possibly the worst book I have ever read. There is not a single likable character. There is no plot to speak of. The story is built on implausibilities and unlikelihoods. There are hanging chads and loose ends galore. It is an insult to the reader’s intelligence. I don’t know that I’ve ever before been angry at an author for writing so bad a book, but I am this time.
Not worth your time
This is one of the worst books I’ve ever read. Pointless. Somehow I hung on in hopes that the thin plot and undeveloped characters would thicken, but it was confusion and disappointment from cover to cover.