ALL THAT FALL

A young man is gunned down in the night for no apparent reason, an ambitious state ethics investigator helps her friend open a day-care facility, and a teenage boy has begun hanging out with the wrong kinds of people. Multiple storylines and a packed cast of characters make this a busy mystery, and narrator Caitlin Davies's myriad accents don't serve to clarify the details for the listener. Davies employs a delightful Irish lilt to portray the day-care owner, but her Hispanic and Jamaican accents are distracting. When the governor's granddaughter is kidnapped from the day care, Davies's animated pace keeps the listener engaged. A serial killer known as The Gambler, a ruthless gang of white supremacists, kidnappers apparently seeking ransom--they all could be connected. N.M.C. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE 2021]