Compelling.
Atmospheric.
Unputdownable.
Pub Date
March 2022
Cost
$32.99
Format
Paperback
Extent
336pp
ISBN
9781761150197
Rights
ANZ
When We Fall
Aoife Clifford
The gripping new novel from award-winning Australian crime writer, Aoife Clifford.
It isn’t strangers you need to worry about here. Blood lines run deep and in unexpected places. Every victim, every accused, we’ll know. The past runs alongside us all the time. Some days it spills into the open.
In the wild, coastal town of Merritt, Alex Tillerson and her mother make a shocking find on the beach. The police claim it’s an accidental death but there are whispers of murder and that it is not the first.
Bella Greggs was found dead at the bottom of a ravine but drowned in salt water. Maxine McFarlane was pulled from the ocean but with no water in her lungs. Black feathers were found with both bodies but what do they mean?
As 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.
Alex discovers the truth never dies but it can kill…
Category
Fiction
Themes
Crime
Small town
Mystery
Praise
‘A vivid, twisting story that keeps you guessing to the end. This is top-shelf Australian crime.’
Mark Brandi, author of The Others
‘Atmospheric and absorbing, When We Fall is an absolute page-turner.’
Sara Foster, author of The Hush
‘A wonderful storyteller. The combination of art, death and small town secrets makes for a sinister, complex tale that I could not put down. I’ve loved all of Aoife’s books but I think this is the best yet.’
Sarah Bailey, author of The Housemate
About the author
Aoife Clifford was born in London of Irish parents, studied Arts/Law at the Australian National University, and now lives in Melbourne. Aoife is the author of best selling literary crime novels, Second Sight, runners up in 2019 for Crime Book of the Year in the Davitt Awards, and All These Perfect Strangers, which was long listed for both the ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year and the Voss Literary Prize. She has been shortlisted for the UK Crime Association’s Debut Dagger among other prizes. Her award-winning short stories have been published in Australia, UK and US.