Book description
Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, is
called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus. The
mutilated body provides little in the way of clues - and the college
authorities are keen to avoid a scandal - but for Sara and police
chief Jeffrey Tolliver, things don't add up.
Two more suspicious suicides follow, and a young woman is brutally
attacked. For Sara, the violence strikes far too close to home. And as
Jeffrey pursues the sadistic killer, he discovers that ex-police
detective Lena Adams, now a security guard on campus, may be in
possession of crucial information. But, bruised and angered by her
expulsion from the force, Lena seems to be barely capable of
protecting herself, let alone saving the next victim...
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 international
bestsellers
Blindsighted
,
Kisscut, A Faint Cold Fear,
Indelible
,
Faithless
,
Skin Privilege
,
Triptych, Fractured, Genesis
and
Broken.
She is also the author of the darkly comic novella,
Martin Misunderstood
and the editor of and contributor to
Like a Charm
, a collaboration of British and American crime fiction writers. She
lives in Atlanta.
