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Plot Summary of All Fall Down
"Melanie May is a small-town cop in Whistlestop, North Carolina with big department dreams who stumbles onto a serial killer. She meets Connor Park, a profiler with the FBI with his own obsessions. As they work together to discover the identity of the killer, Melanie struggles with family conflict with her sisters and a new friend she met in the course of the hunt.

As Melanie gets closer to the killer, she and Connor fall in love but the killer has other plans....Melanie is set up by the killer to take the fall for the murders which puts her relationship with Connor and her family on the line.

    "

Andrea Barnes, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of All Fall Down
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Plot

Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10%




Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
How difficult to spot villain? - Challenging
Time/era of story: - present (2000-2010)
What % of story relates directly to the mystery, not the subplot? - 50%
Special suspect? - investigator him/herself
Murder of certain profession? - criminals
Misc. Murder Plotlets - character killed during/after sexing - local police w/ IQ of a houseplant - "All in the family" murder
Kind of investigator - husband/wife boy/girlfriend investigators
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
The crook is.... - stalking/killing innocents
Any non-mystery subplot? - feelings towards family/friends
Crime Thriller Yes
Mostly a criminal POV story Yes
Murder Mystery (killer unknown) Yes
Who's the criminal enemy here? - finding a known killer

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - police/lawman
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How much violence does he/she use? - a little
Ethnicity/Race - White/American
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - none
Profession/status: - killer
Eccentric: Yes - obsessed - deluded - mentally ill - emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.
Motive of antagonist - power
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Deep South

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
How many deaths? - 3-4
Sex Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references
Unusual forms of death - asphyxiation - rough sex
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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