If Raymond Chandler wrote Silence of the Lambs, you'd get something like A Falling of Law. Once called the "new queen of mystery," Susan Wingate (writing as JJ Adams) pens a thriller of a detective crime story. Harvey Flemings has discovered not just once, but twice, the same gruesome murder and is up to his neck in guilt. After many years of their small town enduring her abuses, someone has finally killed Leona Malouf. When the investigation turns cold, a sketchy trail leads back to Harvey. And, when there seems no possible way of redeeming his not-so-good name, he learns the identity of the real murderer.