After We Fall: A dark, gripping psychological thriller, by Emma Kavanagh
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After We Fall: A dark, gripping psychological thriller, by Emma Kavanagh
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Blood stains the carpet of an empty house. A front door slams behind a mother with a suitcase full of secrets. Someone screams. A plane falls out of the sky.
What happened the night flight 2940 crashed? And is the shocking murder of a policeman's daughtersomehow related to this tragic event-or is it simply a devastating coincidence?
Four people, who have never met but are permanently linked by these disasters, will be forced to reveal the closely guarded secrets that unlock the answers to these questions. But once the truth is exposed, it may cause even more destruction.
After We Fall weaves together the stories of those who lost something of themselves in a tragic incident and explores how swiftly everything can come crashing down.
A stunning combination of mystery, thriller, and suspense, After We Fall is an intense, complex, and emotional debut that will enthrall fans of Tana French, S.J Watson and Alice LaPlatne.
What readers are saying about After We Fall
"The way it was written truly blew me away."
"An outstanding, highly character-driven chiller."
"Incredibly well written, riveting, multi-layered thriller."
"Brilliant story that had me gripped from beginning to end. Brilliant story line and characters and kept you guessing til the end."
What reviewers are saying about After We Fall
''Dark, tense and convincing, this is a brilliantly executedand engrossing thriller.'' –Sunday Mirror
"After We Fallis an intense, psychological thriller that delves into the lives of four unique individuals battling both secrets and loss. It's a book that will keep readers on the edge of their seats..."-Okie Dreams
"A book that you will enjoy and contemplate long after you have finished the last page."-Celtic Lady's Reviews
"After We Fall is a gripping thriller that will have readers on the edge of their seats and devouring every page."-A Dream Within a Dream
"It was a real page turner as well; I could not put it down. I had to find out the connection, it was killing me."-NetGalley Reviewer
After We Fall: A dark, gripping psychological thriller, by Emma Kavanagh- Amazon Sales Rank: #546268 in Books
- Brand: Kavanagh, Emma
- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Released on: 2015-06-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.30" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
Review "A brilliant debut" - Marie Claire (UK)"We predict big things for Emma Kavanagh ... addictive." - Good Housekeeping (UK)"Dark, tense and convincing, this is a brilliantly executed and engrossing thriller." - Sunday Mirror"Solid debut...Packed with high emotion, this novel about bad choices and vexed relationships reveals a born storyteller with room to grow." - Publishers Weekly"That the author's debut book is this well thought out and plotted is just outstanding. I highly recommend this book to mystery fans...It's always a good mystery for me when I can't figure the end out easily." - Pure Textuality"Absolutely gripping read..If you like a good psychological thriller, something that holds your attention, I recommend this." - Read Along with Sue"After We Fall is an intense, psychological thriller that delves into the lives of four unique individuals battling both secrets and loss. It's a book that will keep readers on the edge of their seats, wondering until the very end how it all connects." - Okie Dreams"It is a nail biting experience to come to understand how these people's lives are intertwined, but it's a journey that I am glad that I took... " - For the Love of Fictional Words"After We Fall is a very intriguing, character driven novel. Emma Kavanagh seamlessly blends past and present into a compelling story that is impossible to put down. The mystery element of the storyline is superbly written and it is quite fascinating seeing the various story arcs come together. " - Book Reviews and More by Kathy"This book moved along at a steady pace, with great character development, and real feelings and emotions...A book that you will enjoy and contemplate long after you have finished the last page." - Celtic Lady's Reviews
About the Author Emma Kavanagh was born and raised in South Wales. After graduating with a PhD in Psychology from Cardiff University, she spent many years working as a police and military psychologist, training firearms officers, command staff and military personnel throughout the UK and Europe. She started her business as a psychology consultant, specializing in human performance in extreme situations. She lives in South Wales with her husband and young son.
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Chapter 1
Cecilia: Thursday, March 15, 6:08 p.m.
A shrieking of wind, screeching of metal as the plane ripped apart, the wicked cold tearing at her throat. Cecilia Williams gripped the seat, fingers burning with pain. She tried to close her mouth, but the sound pried it open, stealing her breath. A giant's hand pinned her to the bulkhead. Tumbling, tumbling...she couldn't determine the floor from the ceiling.
She couldn't see the people. Just black night air where there should have been a plane, space where there should have been seats. She squeezed her eyes shut. If she leaned this way, she could pretend she was sleeping.
The plane almost hadn't taken off at all. It had been touch and go. The air had thickened days ago, gray clouds massing as temperatures plummeted far below the March average. Then the snow, thick and bulbous. A blizzard, wrapping around Cardiff Airport, climbing into mountainous drifts. Flights canceled one after the other. Cecilia had no reason to believe that this flight would be any different. Except that it would be, because it had to be. Cecilia had sat in the crew room, sipping harsh black coffee, beads of sweat breaking out beneath her blunt-cut bangs as a potted ficus continued to wilt and die in the fierce heat charging from the radiators. She had pulled at her turquoise polyester jacket, letting it drop to the floor beside her. She hated that uniform. Saw the other flight attendants looking at the crumpled pile. Drank her coffee. She wouldn't wear that uniform again.
"Gonna cancel it, you think?" The copilot looked at her, running knuckled fingers through his curtained hair. Rope thin, all teeth and nostrils. He was new, coming in as she was going out. Cecilia didn't know his name, didn't really see the point in learning it, not now. She had handed in her notice. This would be her final flight. She stared out the window, watched the falling snow. She didn't answer.
"They'll cancel," the copilot mumbled, almost like he was whispering a prayer. "They'll cancel."
The pilot, Oliver Blake, glanced up at him, then back down. Staring at the ground. Jaw tight.
Made everyone tetchy, a night like this.
The plane kept tumbling, over, over. Seemed to be no end to it. There were things she should be doing as the wind whipped past her, the ground rushing closer. Her arms wanted to fold themselves over her head, mouth to scream, "Brace!" But she couldn't move her arms and she couldn't move her mouth, and the rest of her just didn't care. It would be over soon, anyway.
They had waited in the crew room, roll-on cases lining the wall in a chain gang. Cecilia's at the end, bigger than the rest. She blew on her coffee and thought about her diploma. She'd left it in a frame, displayed in the study that they used to hang laundry. She should have brought it. But then the interview wasn't for another month. Ground crew. She would be based out of London again, if she got the job. There would be a lot of applicants, would always be a lot of applicants for a job like that. But she had worked there before, and she knew people, and hopefully that would be enough. It didn't really matter about the diploma; she would have to speak to Tom again. Eventually.
"We'll never fly tonight. No chance." The copilot was working his jaw, teeth grinding against the hum of the radiators.
Cecilia had never thought she would want to go back to the chaos and the London smog and the phone-booth-red uniforms. Never thought that at thirty years old she would pack up her life, walk out on her husband and her almost three-year-old son. Something stuck in her throat, almost choking her. She had looked out the window at the snow and tried not to think about that.
She wondered if Tom knew that she had left, if he had found the closet door hanging open, all of her most prized belongings gone. She should have left a note. Should have done that at least.
The crew room phone rang, and they all looked up. Oliver pushed himself to his feet, trudging to the phone as though walking through a snowdrift.
Watching. Waiting.
He hung up the phone, turning back.
"We're on."
She hadn't kissed her son good-bye. She should have kissed him good-bye.
Then it was all hurry, hurry, hurry. She had grabbed her bags, a quick slick of lipstick even though her fingers were shaking, pulled her skirt straight, then click, clack, click, out into the terminal. Passengers' heads bobbed up like meerkats, the whisper running through the terminal in a bow wave behind them. Cecilia raised her chin and looked straight ahead.
Suddenly there was no time. It was a narrow window. There was more snow coming in. We go now or we don't go. And Cecilia very much wanted to go.
"Hello, hi, welcome, straight to the back, please." With a pasted smile, Cecilia gestured with French-tipped nails along the line of the plane. She bit her lip as they shuffled their way in, buffeting one against the other with their thick anoraks, all clumsy in heavy gloves. "If you could move out of the aisle, please." Smiling, smiling. "Let me help you with that." She moved alongside the Jude Law look-alike with his Armani shirt, open at the collar, and reached up to angle the carry-on into the overhead bin, not looking at the thin-lipped, flat-eyed woman who stood beside him.
Then the doors were shut and they were moving, and all eyes were on her as she pirouetted through the safety briefing. Smiling. Always smiling.
Trying not to smell the smoke rising from the bridges that she had burned behind her.
They were taxiing, building pressure pinning her to her seat. Cecilia turned her head, watching pinprick lights skittering against the dark night sky. She sighed. She had straightened her hair three times today, teasing the bangs that curled from the damp of the snow, pulling at it with fingers that trembled, ever so slightly, knowing that it would do no good. But doing it anyway, because it was better than thinking. Anything was better than that. Then the lift. Flickering lights giving way to black sea. A turn, climbing, climbing.
Cecilia leaned back in her seat. Was staring off into space when she realized someone was staring at her. The little girl was three, four maybe. Chocolate streaked across the tip of her nose, solemn jaw moving up and down. She was twisted around in her chair watching the flight attendant. She was beautiful. Dark eyes. Like Ben's.
Cecilia looked away.
They were climbing through the clouds. The plane shimmied, but she was looking at her reflection again, where the mascara had smudged. She was thinking about Ben's smell, his velvet skin, the way he slept with his mouth ever so slightly open, snoring a little boy's snore. She felt sick.
A murmur rippled through the cabin, and Cecilia glanced up, waiting for something, anything, so that she didn't have to think about the little boy she had left behind. The little girl had turned around, curling into her mother as they leafed through the pages of a book. But there were others glancing back at her. Cecilia tugged her shirt straight. An attractive girl, maybe twenty, maybe a little more, her oversized hoop earrings swinging, looked at Cecilia. It was like she wanted to say something, but she didn't, and, biting her lip, she lowered her eyes to look down into her lap where her hands twisted one inside the other.
Then the plane bucked. The murmur replaced with a "whoa" of riders on a roller coaster. Cecilia flung out her hand, bracing herself against the window.
"It's only crosswinds. Nothing to worry about." Her words were lost in the groaning of engines. But she said them again, whispering to herself.
The engines whirred, singing in an unfamiliar key. The girl with the hoop earrings was looking at her again, eyes wide, willing her to say something. Another buck. A high-pitched whining she hadn't heard before. There was nothing beyond the windows. A sea of gray cotton breaking into darkness.
The engine was straining, a dog pulling at its leash; they seemed to be tilting, not climbing, but pointing upward, steep, steeper than she had ever seen it. A solitary bottle of Dr Pepper had shaken itself loose from somewhere. It rolled down the aisle, rattling, bouncing, all eyes watching as it drifted to a stop at her feet. Then the chaos of noise vanished into a deafening silence.
And she knew.
She hadn't said good-bye to her son. She had stood on the threshold, where the murky blue glow of Ben's Toy Story night-light met the darkness of the hallway, and watched him sleep with his arms thrown up over his head, the way he had slept ever since he was a baby. And she had turned and walked away.
Someone screamed. Then they were falling.
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33 of 36 people found the following review helpful. 6 star novel! By Christine Terrell I want to thank Net Galley, Sourcebooks, and Emma Kavanagh for an advanced copy of this novel in exchange for an unbiased review.I am awarding this book 6 stars. I don’t care if I can’t give it 6 stars. I am giving it 6 stars. After We Fall, a moody psychological mystery, is the superb debut novel by British author Emma Kavanagh. It is by far my favorite read of 2015.Four narrators tell the story, which takes place over about a week, in rotating fashion. Tom is a DC for the South Wales police department. Jim has just lost his young adult daughter to murder. Freya is the daughter of the airplane pilot who was at the controls when a commercial airline crashed, killing over 100 people. Cecelia, Tom’s wife, is one of 13 survivors of the plane crash. For uncertain reasons Cecelia relates much better with strangers than with her husband and young son.Over the course of the book these people and their stories are slowly weaved together. The mood of the story is pensive and reflective. It progresses like an onion peeling its layers, very agonizingly so (in a good way), towards the many answers of the many questions raised as the story is told. The ending is not Hollywood, but definitely satisfying.What I liked most about this book was that it centered on the characters’ reactions to what was happening and how the events affected them personally. Yes, there were multiple mysteries, and there were terrific twists and surprises, but the introspective framing of the story absolutely captivated me. I could not be away from this book for very long before I just had to pick it up again not only to see what was happening to these people, but especially how they were reacting to what was going on.There were times when I had to read over a part to get my bearings as Ms. Kavanagh occasionally makes an intentionally abrupt change of time or scenery right in the middle of a paragraph. Once I became familiar with this technique, I could adjust quickly.Overall, I found this novel to be an outstanding, highly character-driven chiller. Ms. Kavanagh is clearly qualified to write such a book because of her background working as a police psychologist. I strongly recommend After We Fall (titled Falling in the UK) to all mystery, suspense and thriller readers, especially those who prefer character development to pure action. Remember the name. Emma Kavanagh. She is definitely one to watch.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful. After We Fall By coccotoro "After We Fall" by Emma Kavanagh is an amazing debut psychological thriller, that you will not be able to put down until you finish it. It is written by a former police psychologist, and her knowledge and experience in the field, is very apparent, in this well written novel. Be prepared to pay attention to the plot, clues and characters, so as not to miss some of the reveals.A plane crash, a murder, and four people who all come together...with secrets.This novel explores four people, whose lives fall apart, in the aftermath of the plane crash.Jim is a retired police officer.His daughter is missing, and he senses something is wrong.Tom, a father, husband and police officer, is investigating the murder case while also struggling with parenthood and a marriage that never should have happened.Cecilia, Tom’s wife and flight attendant on the crashed plane, has to deal with the grief of surviving the plane crash. But it was on this day that she had walked out on her husband and young son, to start a new life...but now everything has changed. Her life had changed on a dime, and now she has no way out.She has many secrets from her past.Freya, the daughter of someone who died in the plane crash, trying to find out who her father was and what secrets he had to hide.The novel deals with the emotional state of the characters throughout the book. They are all troubled, they all have secrets,and they are all trying to figure out how to deal with their lives. The author devotes each chapter to each character and immediate family, thereby developing four POV's and sub-plots. They each tell their story, starting at the same point in time. As the story progresses we also get flashbacks to their lives before the plane crash and we get to see everything that made them the person they are now. This made them all human. It is a story about good people who make bad decisions, and how they deal with the consequences.I highly recommend reading this novel.I wish to thank Netgalley, the publisher and the author for the advanced copy, in exchange for an honest review.
19 of 23 people found the following review helpful. A Gripping Thriller with a Complex Storyline and Magnificent Writing! By Stephanie Ward 4.5 Stars'After We Fall' is a gripping thriller that will have readers on the edge of their seats and devouring every page. The story follows four different characters - all of whom were deeply affected by the plane crash of flight 2940. Each of their lives is irrevocably altered and they all must learn to adapt to their new realities in order to survive. The author takes us inside each of the characters' private lives to reveal dark secrets and lies they've been hiding. We must follow the investigation into the plane crash, along with a murder case. By getting to the bottom of each, we'll discover the secrets each character has been hiding - along with answering several questions that have been haunting them for ages.Thrillers are one of my favorite genres, and after reading the synopsis for this book - I knew I had to read it. I wasn't sure what to expect - especially with the four main characters and having the story told from each of their perspectives. I'm so glad that I gave this one a chance though - I was pleasantly surprised at how easily the author immersed me into the world she created and at the incredibly detailed writing. I'm a huge fan of the first person point of view - which this was not written in. It was done in third person with the narrator jumping between each of the four main characters throughout the whole book. The thing is - I honestly believe that this was the best way for the novel to be written. If it had been done in the first person POV, things would have gotten confusing and messy very fast - and the story would have lost the reader early on. By writing in the third person, the author was able to keep each of the main characters' storylines separate, but maintained a clear main plot that connected them all. It wasn't confusing or overwhelming this way and it also allows the reader to really get to know and understand the different characters and how their lives connect during the story.The plot itself was incredibly detailed and multi-layered - which I loved. So much happens during the story that it just continues to draw you in deeper - even as things get more complicated and intertwined. Due to the fact that there are four different main characters whose stories are told alongside the main plot line of the plane crash - and then the added murder investigation, it's nearly impossible to touch on everything that happens during the book. It would take a ton of time and way too much space - so I'll simply say that each of the characters were incredibly well written and realistic. I found myself empathizing for each of them in different ways - and their independent stories were intriguing and added a depth to the book that couldn't have been achieved any other way. As I mentioned earlier, the writing was impeccable. The author was able to weave together so many smaller storylines into the main plot - and did so without confusing the reader. In fact, I found that it only enhanced my reading experience. The book would have been good if done simply from one person's point of view - but the way it was written truly blew me away. The amount of detail, description, and vivid imagery came together perfectly to suck the reader into the lives of these people - as well as the world the author created around the event of the plane crash (and everything that happens afterwards). I very highly recommend this book to fans of mysteries, suspense, and thrillers - this is definitely a book you'll want to get your hands on! I also think fans of other genres will enjoy the realistic characters, complex storyline, and magnificent writing that make up this novel. I'll definitely be reading more of this author's other books!Disclosure: I received a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
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