Book description
Crime fiction obsessive Martin Reed is the proverbial butt of
everyone's jokes. Working as a glorified accountant at Southern Toilet
Supply and still living with his cantankerous mother, he has become
resigned to the world in which he lives - the school bullies now pick
on him in the workplace, women still spurn him and his arch enemy is
now his supervisor.
But then he arrives at work one morning to find the police on site.
A co-worker has been brutally murdered and her body abandoned in a
ditch. And the overwhelming evidence points to Martin - especially
when he can't or won't admit that he has an alibi.
When a second victim is found in the company bathroom, things really
conspire against Martin. The one bright star on his otherwise bleak
horizon is the beautiful and sympathetic Detective Anther Albada, but
even she's beginning to have her doubts about his innocence. Could
Martin be guilty? Or is he just misunderstood?
Karin Slaughter grew up in a small south Georgia town and has been
writing since she was a child. She is the author of the Grant County
series of international bestsellers
Blindsighted
,
Kisscut, A Faint Cold Fear,
Indelible
,
Faithless
and
Skin Privilege
,
and the bestselling thrillers set in Atlanta,
Triptych
and
Fractured.
She is also the editor of
Like a Charm
, a collaboration of British and American crime fiction writers. She
lives in Atlanta.
