Darkness Falls Author:Joyce Anne Schneider Psychiatrist Amanda Hammond returns to her sleepy but monied hometown of Grand Cove, Connecticut, to set up a practice and is immediately confronted by the possible murder of a patient, a death that recalls that of Amanda's mother years before.
The body of a lovely blond girl drifted in on the tide. Her name was Kelly Payne and her parents were, as usual, unavailable--even for her death. So it fellt o Amanda to identify the remains of her young patient. Marks ofn the body suggested not accidental drowning, but murder. In the fatal undertow a number so suspects began to emerge--among them, Amanda.