Description: After journalist Rachel Childs suffers an on-air mental breakdown, she lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel's marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness, Rachel must find the strength within herself to conquer unimaginable fears and mind-altering truths.
Brief description:
Dennis Lehane is the author of thirteen novels--including the New York Times bestsellers Live by Night; Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given Day--as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He grew up in Boston, MA and now lives in California with his family.
Review Quotes:
"With sharply acute characterization, this is classic Lehane." - The Guardian
"A ride you won't want to miss." - New York Journal of Books
"A riveting exercise in psychological suspense." - Providence Journal
"[Since We Fell] should have crime fiction fans busting out the bottle rockets and champagne. . . . It's impossible not to succumb." - Lithub
"Endlessly surprising. . . . [A] twisty tale." - Wall Street Journal
"[Lehane] remains one of the great, diabolical thriller kings who seems intimately acquainted with darkness and can make it seep from the page." - New York Times
"Lehane has written two books-one, an insightful examination of the search for identity and belonging, and two, a thriller that constantly leaves you guessing-and then smashed them together into one terrific read." - Gillian Flynn
"One doesn't 'read' Since We Fell so much as plunge and tumble through its pages like a raft in white water. A sweet bullet of a book." - Richard Price
"A pleasantly twisted character study and a love story. . . . Lehane is in command of what he's doing." - Washington Post
"Lehane writes expert, compelling thrillers. . . . He's one of the game changers who smashed the imaginary boundary between genre and literature, proving that we can have the best of both at once." - Tana French, Washington Post
"The mystery and intrigue never let go; the twists and turns are engaging and unexpected all the way down the track." - James Lee Burke
"Once you pick up a Dennis Lehane novel, you're hooked. It's just that simple. Since We Fell is a complex, compelling, page-turner of a novel from a master storyteller at the top of his game." - Kristin Hannah
"Lehane has written two books--one, an insightful examination of the search for identity and belonging, and two, a thriller that constantly leaves you guessing-and then smashed them together into one terrific read. Lehane is the master of complex human characters thrust into suspenseful, page-turning situations. I'll read anything he writes." - Gillian Flynn
"Make no mistake, Since We Fell is crime fiction, filled with con men, murder, greed and revenge. But the love story gives this novel its heart." - Associated Press
"[Lehane's] work always combines pulp thrills with literary heart and sophistication." - Entertainment Weekly
"Complex, tense, compelling, and an emotional and strategic hall of mirrors, where nothing is what it seems--but I would follow Dennis Lehane anywhere." - Lee Child
"Another winner from the author of Mystic River. . . . A raucous mix of lust, greed, and betrayal." - AARP Magazine
"The surfeit of plot twists and emotional baggage are buoyed by Lehane's hard-boiled lyricism and peerless feel for New England noir." - USA Today
"The most thrilling novel I'll read all year. Since We Fell is simmering with emotion, menace, and humor. I loved it." - Kate Atkinson