For some reason that I haven’t quite discovered none of the Large Chain
Bookstores carry books by this author. Even Small Independent Bookstores
don’t stock her work unless they have a used section. A pity, because she
writes award winning mysteries that are excellent for suspense without
all the guts and gore you find in a great many of what is on the shelves
these days. I don’t like guts and gore. Plus, I’ve read 5 or 6 of her
mysteries now and she hasn’t repeated a plot. Usually after that many,
the mediocre start getting repetitious.

Fall From Grace centers on the relationships of 5 people who went to
high school together way back when. The Good Looking Bad Boy, Bobby
Ransome, is back in Sechelt after doing a stint in prison. And for some
reason, the school nerd and photographer, Stephen Grayson, who hasn’t
shown his face in Sechelt since leaving right after high school, has
decided to come back to visit his elderly widowed mother. And then there
is Annabelle, Wanda and poor frustrated Warren, who are just trying to
live their lives with messed up relationships and none too hot marriages.
So when Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg finally gets his girlfriend,
Cassandra, on a boat to go sailing for a day, it seriously interrupts his
romantic visions to find Stephen Grayson lying at the bottom of cliff
with all the signs that he has been pushed and a whole crew of people who
could have done it.

This is one of those mysteries where you know who did it but you can’t
figure out why. The pleasure from reading it comes from watching Alberg
work his way thru all the leads and clues. And with this one, the
solution is delightfully ambiguous. Did he or didn’t he?