Fast Falls the Night

Name: Fast Falls the Night
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Julia Keller
ISBN: 9781511328548

Author: Julia Keller

Series: Bell Elkins #6

Narrator: Shannon McManus

Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 08/22/2017

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Traditional British

Synopsis

In the powerful mystery from Julia Keller, a murder investigation leads West Virginia prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins to the shattering truth about her own past.Based on a real-life event, Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Keller’s Bell Elkins novel Fast Falls the Night takes place in a single 24-hour period, unfurling against the backdrop of a shattering personal revelation that will change Bell’s life forever.The first drug overdose comes just after midnight, when a young woman dies on the dirty floor of a gas station bathroom. To the people of the small town of Acker’s Gap, West Virginia, it is just another tragedy. It is sad―but these days, depressingly familiar.But then there is another overdose. And another. And another.Prosecutor Bell Elkins soon realizes that her Appalachian hometown is facing its starkest challenge yet: a day of constant heroin overdoses from a batch tainted with a lethal tranquilizer. While the clock ticks and the bodies fall, Bell and her colleagues desperately track the source of the deadly drug―and engage in fierce debates over the wisdom of expending precious resources to save the lives of self-destructive addicts.

About Julia Keller

JULIA KELLER spent twelve years as a reporter and editor for the Chicago Tribune, where she won a Pulitzer Prize. A recipient of a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, she was born in West Virginia and lives in Chicago and Ohio. Julia is the author of the Bell Elkins Novels, beginning with The Devil's Stepdaughter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Holly on July 02, 2017

I really enjoyed how this story took place within a 24-hour period. It began at 12:04 am when a woman was found dead from a heroine overdose in a gas station restroom. It ends at 11:58 pm with a bit of a cliff-hanger. This is a fictional story which is based on true news account that took place in a......more

Goodreads review by Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede on March 18, 2018

The story in FAST FALLS THE NIGHT takes place during 24 hours. It all starts with a young woman overdosing on the floor of a gas station bathroom in Acker's Gap. For the police in the town it is one tragic event, but then they got called to another overdose and then another. Prosecutor Bell Elkins r......more

Goodreads review by Lindsey on August 23, 2017

Thank you to Minotaur books for my advance copy in exchange for an honest review. This book is the sixth installment in the Bell Elkins series. I have not read the first five. That being said, I don't think it affected the story at all. It worked perfectly as a stand alone for me. I was hooked insta......more

Goodreads review by Aristotle on October 19, 2018

Suffer the Needle Chill "Addicts were ghosts. They drifted in and out of people's lives, just as they drifted in and out of their own lives." Heroin. The story takes place in the course of a single day. A bad batch kills 3 and 33 overdose. The hunt is on to find the dealer before more die. This just did......more