All That Fall by Kris Calvin – a Review

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Description:
Emma Lawson must race against the clock to rescue a kidnapped child and stop a killer whose master plan only begins with murder.

When Emma Lawson, the youngest lead government ethics investigator in California’s capital, takes a day off to help her best friend, Kate, prepare for the opening of her new business, Rainbow Alley Preschool, the morning takes a shocking turn.

The school’s most high-profile enrollee–Vivian Lange, the governor’s granddaughter–is kidnapped, at the same time Kate’s teenage son, Luke, goes missing. Emma is quickly drawn to a web of clues that point toward sordid secrets and a cold-case murder in a shadow world of bigotry and hate.

Over a desperate and harrowing forty-eight hours, Emma races against the clock to solve the most important investigation of her life. But will she be in time to bring the child to safety and to stop a calculating killer whose plan threatens all that Emma holds dear?

Review:

All That Fall by Kris Calvin is a standalone thriller.  The story starts off with a young girl watching for her brother late at night, then gunshots can be heard, and she discovers her brother is dead.  The following morning, the girl threatens to kill herself, but notices a cop, who she feels is the man who killed her brother. Chaos breaks loose which will begin an investigation that will have so many different elements and characters to follow throughout.    

Emma Lawson, our heroine, has just received a promotion as youngest head of the government ethics investigator in California.  Emma has the day off, to work to help her best friend, Kate with the grand opening of her new daycare, Rainbow Alley.  Emma is a bit late, but Kate has things going smoothly, until people start getting shot at and one of the children is kidnapped.  When Emma arrives on the scene, a few people, including a bodyguard for the child, and one of the kidnappers was killed, and Kate is down with a serious head injury.  Emma notices that Kate’s son Luke, is missing.

What follows is a wild, exciting, tense story with the police, Detectives, and Emma trying to find the clues to figure out the why and who is behind this attack, which is filled with many secrets and murder.   The above book description sounded like Emma Lawson is the main character, however, though she plays an integral part in the book, there are so many characters that lead this story. Emma was a great heroine, especially in the last 1/3 of the book. The lead detective, Alibi was very good and played a major part in the story.  I loved Luke, who happened to be at the attack scene, and ended up going with the attackers on a false identity, and watching over the young girl. 

Emma is doing everything to find Luke and the kidnapped child, as the danger escalates putting all their lives at risk.  It was a wild, exciting and desperate race to the climax, holding my breath as to who will survive.  It was during this time that Emma rose up to heroine status to fight the enemies, despite so many enemies.   With all that is going on, to say too much more would be spoilers. All that Fall was an exciting and engrossing thriller, and very well written by Kris Calvin. I do suggest if you like mystery thrillers, you should read this book.

Reviewed by Barb

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