About the book...
You tried to save a life. Now you’re fighting to save your own.
It’s the perfect Sunday. Summer sunshine, a barbecue with the kids.
But a knock on the garden gate and two words, ‘HELP ME’, changes everything.
When loving parents Rob and Wendy Turner let a dying man into their home, and do their best to help him, they think pure chance led him to their house. But soon their lives are threatened in ways they could never have imagined … and then the first anonymous letter arrives, forcing them to question all they know.
Someone is watching.
Someone is waiting.
They will stop at nothing.
Rob and Wendy will do anything to keep their family safe, but their children Georgia, Josh and Evan are teenagers now, with their own hidden lives.
Everyone has secrets, but how can you save your family, if you don’t really know them?
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About the author...
Tom Bale decided that he wanted to be an author from the age of seven but, after another career got in the way, it wasn’t until much later that his dream was fulfilled. After several books with Random House, Tom signed with Bookouture for two stunning ‘everyman’ thrillers.
Read more about the author: www.tombale.net
My thoughts...
I am hugely, honoured to be part of the blog tour for this book, All Fall Down by Tom Bale. I received an ecopy from Bookouture Tom's publisher in exchange for an honest review which I'm more than happy to give.All Fall Down is the second novel I have read by Tom Bale and most definitely won't be the last. I don't know how he does it - he's a family man and he has managed to manifest every parents worst nightmares onto paper, almost like if they are out there and shared they could never happen - could they? His graphic attention to detail is stomach churning and heart attack inducing. Once again he has feared me half to death, made me sick with suspense and still I kept turning the pages - although I have to admit I started this book whilst eating my salad one lunchtime at work and had to switch to a christmas story I felt so ill and all within the first few pages.
Sunday is the archetypical day, a day for families, a summer bbq in the garden. But, for the Turners it's the day when their lives as they know them implodes. A knocking on the garden gate and a whispered plea for help reveals a brutally attacked man - why is he at their gate and who attacked him? Surely nothing to do with their family and his arrival just a random circumstance of chance. Think again!
This was an incredible book that I found myself compulsively reading. I read faster and slower as the pace of the story ebbed and flowed. As Tom peels back the layers of the story, me as well as the Turner family get more than a little jumpy with the thought, then knowledge that somebody is watching them, someone has lit the touch paper and is sitting back waiting for the explosion. Tom builds the tension as the family question first themselves, then each other it becomes apparent that there is more to each of the characters than was originally portrayed. Rob and Wendy are keeping secrets from each other and their children and their three teenage children Georgia, Josh and Evan are no different.
I'm not quite sure how he does it but reading a book by Tom Bale makes me sick to the stomach, the adrenalin pumping around my veins and still I go back for more. He knows how to pack a punch and doesn't hold back - All Fall Down was every bit as good as See How They Run. Another book that left me physically drained, feeling like I'd run the race of my live. I can only thank God it was 'just a book' and not my life really!
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