All Fall Down ebook out now – just 99p
All Fall Down, the third Voss and Edwards novel, was published today as an ebook. It’s a significant day for us because this is our first new novel since we were self-published; in fact, because Killing Cupid and Catch Your Death had already been around for a long time before that, All Fall Down is the first new brand book we’ve written in almost a decade.
It might have been nerve-wracking when we sat down to write it – but we didn’t have time to feel nervous. We had a short deadline and very limited time, so we wrote the book at a pace that we think is reflected in the novel itself. (The thing we pride ourselves on most in our books is the pace; the pages should turn themselves.) We still missed the deadline by miles, but it’s a miracle that we managed to write it in around nine months when you consider that we both had full-time jobs, Mark did all his writing on his 30 minute commute and in his lunch break, Louise did hers in a coffee shop between the school run and work, and that between us we had a newborn baby, a mother with Alzheimers, a detached retina and two house moves to deal with.
But here it is at last, our big blockbuster novel, a book that has already been described as “a juggernaut of a thriller… Die Hard meets Outbreak.” We like to think of it as Catch Your Death turned up to eleven.
Here’s a brief alternative ‘blurb’ for All Fall Down:
Kate Maddox, virologist, is living in Oxford with her partner Paul and young son, Jack. She and her research partner, Isaac, are working on a vaccine for the Watoto virus that killed Kate’s parents when she was a child. It’s her life’s work. Then a face from the past turns up: former MI6 agent Jason Harley, who tells Kate that a new strain of Watoto has broken out on an Indian reservation in California. It’s contained, he says, but we need you to come to the States to join a team of scientists who are searching for a cure for this deadly new virus. Kate is conflicted – she doesn’t want to disrupt her son’s life – but then a bomb goes off at an immunology conference in San Diego, and Isaac is among the dead. And as soon as Kate arrives in the US she learns that the virus is not contained after all…
From that point on, the novel is pure action – as Kate and her fellow scientists race to develop a cure, Paul goes searching for the man he believes is responsible for his brother’s death, and LA is put under quarantine. Meanwhile, our favourite characters in the book – a group of murderous women called the Sisters – are plotting the end of the world and killing anyone who gets in their way. And Kate is their No.1 target.
We hope you enjoy it.
Happy Christmas
Mark and Louise
