Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady returns in this outstanding new mystery set in the beautiful desert country of the Southwest...

With a baby on the way, sudden deaths in the family from which to recover, a re-election campaign looming, and a daughter heading off for college, Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady has her hands full when a puzzling new case hits her department, demanding every resource she has at her disposal.

Two women have fallen to their deaths from a small nearby peak, referred to by Bisbee locals as Geronimo. What’s the connection between these two women? Is this a case of murder/suicide or is it a double homicide? And if someone else is responsible, is it possible that the perpetrator may, even now, be on the hunt for another victim?

On the one hand, Downfall is about the corrosive and potentially fatal power of family secrets. On the other hand, it’s a book about the upheaval of losing a parent and about how, as it says in that old song, we don’t know what we’ve got ’til it’s gone.

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