Because if they’re meant to be a reflection of the young adult, it’s a rather one dimensional view of us. However, this is A case where the killer seems to always be one step ahead of the police and the victims.

Lanning’s notoriety is not overlooked, as he was one of a number of teenage schoolchildren who escaped the clutches of Daniel King eight years earlier. King abducted them and was prepared to kill them all, when all but one was able to escape and make it to the authorities. Once again, this book is written in short, fast paced and tense chapters which means despite my best intentions of “just one more chapter” I ended up reading it for hours and hours – however this isn’t a complaint – as with everything going on in the crazy world right now All Fall Down was a welcome distraction and escape from reality. As to the killer they are one twisted, cruel individual, and as slippery as a snake, always staying one step ahead of the investigation team.Arlidge has worked in television for the last twenty years, specializing in high-end drama production, including prime-time crime serials Silent Witness, Torn, The Little House and, most recently, the hit ITV show Innocent. We get to learn a lot more about relative newcomer to the team, DS Joseph Hudson, and the development of his relationship with Helen.

uk/landing-page/orion/orion-company-information/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Orion Publishing Group Limited. They would also only drop off a case of books and leave us to run it – it was so lovely to have you on hand to chat to the children and recommend them books, as well as the small (but appreciated! A body has been found on a building site, a well-known man, mainly due to his traumatic past has turned up dead with ligature marks around his neck.The Black Death was the deadliest epidemic in human history and this wonderful book is a powerful and inspirational story of survival in the face of a real-life creeping horror. All Fall Down has everything I love and expect from a good crime fiction novel: fast pace, full of action and suspense, a brilliant police procedures and well crafted characters.

The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. The friendship between her and Charlie is especially endearing and if anything, I feel like we are seeing a more vulnerable side to the character lately. All Fall Down kept me guessing, second guessing and doubting myself throughout and I thoroughly enjoyed every page of this book.

She immediately refuses but becomes more open to the idea after Ms Chancellor gets Noah and her old friend Megan to help her prepare. DS Joseph Hudson has an air of trouble to him, selfishness and anger that simmers beneath the surface. Not Alexei, the Russian boy next door, who is keeping his eye on Grace for reasons she neither likes nor understands. The book begins as the author means to go on – bringing that intrigue and tension that is going to hook the reader.

Grace finds friends to help her and tells them what she knows about when she saw her mother die in front of her own eyes.The age level is a little lower than I usually read, I would classify this book as a middle grade for ages 12-16. Today those 4 are now living their own individual lives, some are moving on, some are successful entrepreneurs and some are profiting from their experience by writing a memoir of that tragic event. Lack of food was not a problem for medieval peasants – in fact, many peasants had enough to eat for the first time in their lives.