They All Fall Down

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by Rachel Howzell Hall


  Anyone alive? Raul said, “No. They’re all dead.”

  “So…” Andreas cleared his nose, then spat on the polished wood floor. “What do we say?”

  Irritated, Raul glared at the kid. “We did our job, just like Mr. Omeke wanted. We came on the day and time we were told to come. We found her like this, in the water, floating, dead. The end.”

  “The end.” Andreas nodded, then ran his hand through his wet hair. He stood, then limped to the ladder that led up to the communications room. “I’ll call the coast guard.”

  Raul watched the kid disappear up to the second deck, then prayed, “Lord our God, receive our supplications…” After reciting the novena, Raul slipped his fingers over Miriam Macy’s eyes. He had noticed them Friday afternoon back at the office.

  She’d had such pretty eyes.

  Green like the Sea of Cortez.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  I wanted to see what would happen if I took seven Americans to an island and revealed their secrets—and had them pay the ultimate price for that. Cruel, yes, but that’s entertainment. Thanks to Jill Marsal, my brilliant and supportive agent, who also wanted to see what would happen, too. Thank you, Kristin Sevick, my awesome editor, who helped me abuse my darlings. My family has always supported my career and my nature and I want to thank you Mom, Dad, Gretchen, Terry, and Jason for being my support. David and Maya Grace, my travel buds and my loves, thank you for adventuring with me and sending inspirational texts and pictures of people doing and saying stupid stuff. My pages are stuffed with your donated lunacy. To readers everywhere, thank you for picking this up and always giving me a chance to make you breathless.

  ALSO BY RACHEL HOWZELL HALL

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  Trail of Echoes

  City of Saviors

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  RACHEL HOWZELL HALL is the author of the acclaimed Lou Norton series and coauthor of The Good Sister with James Patterson, which appeared in the New York Times bestselling anthology The Family Lawyer. She is a senior donor relations officer with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Currently she serves on the board of directors for the Mystery Writers of America, is a member of Sisters in Crime, and has participated as a mentor in the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ Writer to Writer mentorship program. She lives in Los Angeles

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  We Have a Winner!

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Purgatory

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Twisted

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  The Joker

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Torpedo, Away!

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Epilogue

  Acknowledgments

  Also By Rachel Howzell Hall

  About the Author

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  THEY ALL FALL DOWN

  Copyright © 2019 by Rachel Howzell Hall

  All rights reserved.

  Cover art by Daniel Cullen

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  First Edition: April 2019

 

 

 


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