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 realize that there is a tainted
batch of heroin and that someone is behind it. As the
hours pass by more and more overdoses occur and Bell and
her colleagues, together with the local police, hunt the
person who is behind it all. But, there are those that
think that the addicts have had it coming and that the
resources should be spent on those that deserve the help.
Once again I'm late to the party as FAST FALLS THE NIGHT
is book six in the Bell Elkins series and the
first book in the series I read. I've been curious about
this series and was thrilled when I got this book to
read. One aspect that I really enjoyed about this book
was that there were a lot of different point of views
in the book, from Bell Elkin's to her
sisters, different people in the town, and the police
officers, etc. This really moved the story forward at a
fast-paced tempo and I was engrossed in not only the hunt
for the person behind the tainted heroin batch, but
everything that was going in the town.
I felt at ease with the story right from the start,
despite this being book six and that I had no previous
knowledge of the characters in the book. The main
characters are likable and I felt that I cared about
them. I was especially curious to learn more about Bell
and her sister, especially since Bell's sister had a big
secret she wanted to tell Bell. The ending of the book
was shocking many ways. I was totally blindsided when it
came to figuring out who was behind it all and it didn't
end there. Let's just say the book ended in a way that
really makes me eager to read the next book!
Based on a real-life event, Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia
Keller’s latest 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.a
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