![]() Blood lines run deep and in unexpected places. ‘It isn’t strangers you need to worry about here. The quote from the blurb sums it up beautifully: Alex is back in town for some very complicated reasons - a pending divorce, and a career as a barrister that's tanking her mother's gentle slip into dementia requiring some difficult decisions to be made and there's family history in Merritt that's complicated and challenging for all. WHEN WE FALL is the story of Alex Tillerson and her mother and the small coastal town of Merritt, as much as it is the story of two murdered women. ![]() To my eye, Clifford is one of the great writers of rural crime in Australia at the moment, and she's right when she says the difference between her books and the more noirish styled ones like THE STONING is her self-professed affection, and sense of hope for the small towns that she sets her action in. ![]() ![]() Given the juxtaposition of this review, and my recent one for THE STONING, I probably should mention that Aoife Clifford was the author I was discussing rural noir versus rural crime with. ![]()
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