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Indelible by Karin Slaughter (2004, Compact Disc, Abridgement approved by Author)

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Medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver make their fourth appearance in this riveting new back-and-forth thriller that grounds a brutal attack by two young men on the Grant County, Georgia police department in a twelve-year-old Alabama murder case that occurred while Sara and Jeffrey were just beginning their tumultuous romance. En route to a beach vacation shortly after they meet, the couple takes a detour to the small town where Jeffrey grew up and began his law enforcement career. But their carefree holiday is interrupted when his best friend from childhood, a fellow cop, is charged with murder after killing a man who broke into his house. Despite his subsequent confession, Jeffrey believes theres more to the story than Robert is telling him, and when the skeleton of a young woman with whom both Robert and Tolliver were once involved is discovered in a secret cave only they knew about, and Robert admits to her murder too, Tolliver must again confront a past he thought he had long since put behind him. Slaughter unravels a convoluted story deftly and smoothly as the action moves between those long-ago events and the siege of the police station by two young men who are determined to make Jeffrey pay for a crime they believe he committed. Threatening to kill whoever stands between them and their target--including eight children on a school field trip at the station house when the bloody siege begins--they execute a deputy they mistakenly believe is Tolliver. Skillfully blending past and present events and illuminating the equally convoluted relationship between Sara and Jeffrey (who have married and divorced in the intervening years) without interrupting the breathtaking pace of the action or dropping a beat, Slaughter takes this series to a new level of excellence.--Jane Adams

The fourth book in the Grant County series from Karin Slaughter, the New York Times bestselling author of "Pieces of Her." A page-turner . . . Slaughters plot has more twists than a Slinky factory and the characters relationships are sharply drawn.

Scary, shocking and perfectly suspenseful. BookPage

An officer is shot point blank in the police station lobby and sherrif Jeffrey Tolliver is wounded, setting off a terrifying hostage situation with medical examiner Sara Linton at the center. Its up to Lena Adams and Frank Going back and forth between present and past, The narrative takes place in two time frames: present and ten years prior to the shooting. The present narration evolves over one hour; the past takes place over the course of a week. Lena will primarily get the present narration, working outside the station with Frank trying to figure out who the shooter is and how to resolve the hostage situation. Inside the station, Jeffrey has not been fatally wounded, but Sara knows he could easily die if the bleeding is not stopped. He drifts in and out of consciousness and through Sara and Jeffrey we get the past, and the case that leads up to the present day shooting. From Publishers Weekly Complex characters with credible relationships underpin this gripping prequel to Slaughter'sBlindsighted(2001). Georgia pediatrician/medical examiner Sara Linton is visiting her ex-husband, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver, when two malevolent strangers, hauntingly familiar to Sara, pull out guns at the station house, where several schoolchildren are on a class trip, and bloody mayhem ensues. The action shifts to the past, when new lovers Sara and Jeffrey detour to his hometown on their way to a beach weekend. A nostalgic tour of Jeffrey's youth turns sinister as buried secrets and injustices slowly come to light. An ugly midnight encounter with Jeffrey's sloshed mother sends Sara outside in time to hear gunshots from the neighboring house of Jeffrey's childhood friend Robert, a cop, who's found bleeding, gun in hand, across the bedroom from his dead victim. Sara is grateful to perform the autopsy, knowing there's more than meets the eye in this puzzling crime scene. The couple's budding romance is put to the test as Sara tries to coax answers from tight-lipped Jeffrey, whose silence and suspicious actions nourish her doubts. Slaughter's tightly disciplined rhythm and occasional sly humor keep readers hooked right up to the end.

FromBooklist - This fourth entry in Slaughter's Grant County series features meticulous plotting, a cast full of the walking wounded, and gruesome forensic detail. Small-town pediatrician and part-time coroner Sara Linton stops by the police station to give her ex-husband, Chief Jeffrey Tolliver, her much-practiced speech on why they should not get remarried. Sara still loves Jeffrey, but she continues to suffer from the emotional fallout of his infidelity, which broke up the marriage. But their heart-to-heart is soon interrupted by gunfire as two zombie-eyed, heavily armed 20-year-olds enter the station and open fire. In the tense standoff that follows, Sara flashes back 12 years to when she first met Jeffrey. Frenetically cross-cutting from one time frame to another, the novel intersperses the events that occurred then with the dire circumstances in the present, as multiple police officers lie dead and dying. After a few surprising twists and a head-turning appearance by the series' third lead character, officer Lena Adams, the two story lines converge. What's even more disturbing here than the graphically detailed violence is the creepy atmosphere as Slaughter creates a town, and a world, full of the revenge-seeking victims of child abuse.

Joanne Wilkinson

Simply one of the best thriller writers working today. Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of "Gone Girl" A fearless writer. One of the boldest thriller writers working today. Tess Gerritsen Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivaled among thriller writers. Michael Connelly From the Back Cover The internationally bestselling author "squarely in the ranks of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs" (Publishers Weekly) shows off her superb talent with this brilliantly conceived, skillfully executed tale of suspense. In Karin Slaughter's exciting new thriller, an officer is shot point-blank in the Grant County police station and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver is wounded, setting off a terrifying hostage situation with medical examiner Sara Linton at the center. Working outside the station, Lena Adams, newly reinstated to the force, and Frank Wallace, Jeffrey's second in command, must try to piece together who the shooter is and how to rescue their friends before Jeffrey dies. For the sins of the past have caught up with Sara and Jeffrey -- with a vengeance ... Deftly interweaving present and past, Slaughter -- dubbed "the new face of crime" byBookmagazine -- offers another brilliant knife-edge tale of suspense that cements her place among the most outstanding practitioners of crime fiction today.

About the Author

Karin Slaughteris the author of more than twenty instantNew York Timesbestselling novels, including the EdgarnominatedCop Townand standalone novelsThe Good Daughter,Pretty Girls, and Girl, Forgotten. She is published in 120 countries with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe.Pieces of Heris a #1 Netflix original series starring Toni Collette. The Will Trent Series will air on ABC in 2023, andThe Good DaughterandFalse Witnessare in development for film/tv. Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries projecta nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta.

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