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Printing Date: 2001-09
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A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work becomes clear.
Sara's ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation -- a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another local woman is found crucified a few days later. But he's got more than a sadistic serial killer on his hands, for the county's sole female detective, Lena Adams -- the very first victim's sister -- want to serve her own justice.
But it is Sara who holds the key to finding the killer. A secret from her past could unmask the brilliantly malevolent psychopath .. or mean her death.
Amazon.com Review:
In Blindsighted (book one of an anticipated three featuring Grant County, Georgia, pediatrician and coroner Dr. Sara Linton), first-time novelist Karin Slaughter comes out swinging in true medical examiner fashion. That is to say, covered with blood from the get-go.
Without warning, the body jerked violently, pitching forward and slamming Sara onto the floor. Blood spread out around both of them, and Sara instinctively clawed to get out from under the convulsing woman. With her feet and hands she groped for some kind of purchase on the slick bathroom floor. Finally, Sara managed to slide out from underneath her. She turned Sibyl over, cradling her head, trying to help her through the convulsions. Suddenly, the jerking stopped.
Sibyl is, or was, Sibyl Adams, a college professor who had the misfortune of being drugged, savagely raped, slashed, and left for dead in the toilet of the local diner, to be coincidentally discovered by Sara Linton. Coincidences don't stop there, and neither do the rapes and murders. The subsequent is, unimaginably, still more gruesome than the very first and it, too, is discovered by Dr. Linton. Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver is Sara's ex-husband, and mercurial detective Lena Adams, another major player in the ensuing drama, was Sibyl's twin sister.
And the monster behind these increasingly more depraved acts? Suspects abound, from the diner's jack-of-all-trades, Will Harris, to Victim No. 2's boyfriend, to Jack Allen Wright who, a dozen years prior, raped Dr. Linton (that rape had been a secret until now). There are other possibilities, naturally, and it soon becomes apparent that Sara's an intended target.
A graduate of the Patricia Cornwell school of mayhem and gore, Slaughter has faithfully stitched together a fast, engaging, and diverting read complete with a strong-yet-vulnerable heroine. Characters are nicely if somewhat obviously drawn, the plot is inventive, and the narrative's pacing quickens the pulse straight to the cliff-hanging denouement. And really, what more can you ask of an ME thriller? --Michael Hudson
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I think these writers are at the point that they have to outgun each other on the blood and gore. This book was more about that than a plot. I never quite figured out why he killed the college student..where did she fit in?
Anyway, I cant recommend it
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Make sure you Pollyanna video is close by when you pick this one up to read. Karin Slaughter has taken it upon herself to set the world of thrillers on fire. This start to the Grant County series is dynamic! This author has taken the time to let us get to know the characters we will be spending time with, while simultaneously ripping their lives apart with evil.
And let's talk about evil, the villain of this tale is so...evil...I can't think of a more horrible word to describe him. The story is a humdinger, from one page to the next, your mind is whirling with questions, and doubts, and more questions. While I did guess, and I do mean guess, who the villain was, until the very moment the why is revealed, I did not have a clue how I guess correctly.
This book is frightening and hypnotic. I read it on my Palm T/X and my thumb will never be the same for turning those pages as fast as I could to get to the subsequent one. An excellent read. No doubt!
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Karin Slaughter has written an excellent book. She is one of my new favorite authors.
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Yes, it is violent. Unfortunantly, so is life sometimes. As far as the rape victims reactions to their rapist, this is an essential part of the plot. They were drugged, and this was part of the effects.
I enjoyed this book greatly. In fact, I went to the library for the subsequent installment before I finished this one because I did not want to wait on delivery.
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Karin Slaughter's debut mystery novel, "Blindsighted," is set in Heartsdale, a sleepy small Georgia town, where fairly young Dr. Sara Linton, its protagonist, is both pediatrician and county coroner. As the book opens, Linton is meeting her plumber sister Tessa for lunch at the town's only diner, and it appears that her life's no more out of joint than that of any ordinary woman who reads women's magazines: an uneasy relationship with her forceful ex-husband Jeffrey Tolliver,local sheriff; and a low-key flirtation going with low-voltage town pharmacist Jeb McGuire. Then Sibyl Adams, also a rather young local college professor, who is blind, turns up dying, brutally sexually abused, for the doctor to find in the diner's ladies' room. And Julia Matthews, student at the college, goes missing, only to turn up in a few days, also having been brutally sexually abused, and, in addition, apparently crucified. And we are suddenly in noirish, gruesome, Southern Gothic country, which, let me tell you now, is no place for the more sensitive souls among us, who might find they'd sleep better without making the acquaintance of the sexually sadistic serial killer the writer has created.
The book has, as you can imagine, a powerful opening that will hook you right away, if you are amenable to that kind of thing. It moves fast, and the closing pages are also pitched pretty high. It's well-written, the dialogue is good, and the narrative and descriptive writing are fine, particularly as they deal with the peculiarities of the American South. But the author has a nasty way of suckering readers, at least female ones, in with some fairly titillating sex scenes; then punches her readers by subjecting her female characters to sadistic treatment. It can surely be said that these things happen in real life. However, this caused me to remember recent comments by Ian Rankin, currently highly-successful dean of Scottish mystery writers, who wondered at the number of recent violent, particularly sexually violent, books written by women. At any rate, it's certainly no way to treat a lady, let alone a Southern belle.
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