Indelible (Grant County)
by Karin Slaughter
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Author: Karin SlaughterEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-27
ISBN: 0060567112
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Harper
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Book Review: My Favorite of the Series
Summary: 5 Stars
Indelible by Karin Slaughter is a two story novel, one taking place in the present as two men take the Grant County Police Station hostage in a brutal shoot out, the other taking place in the past when Jeffrey Tolliver and Sara Linton stop by his home town soon after they meet on their way to a Florida vacation and get bogged down in a murder involving one of Jeffrey's oldest friends. With their relationship very new, Sara is bombarded by stories of Jeffrey's womanizing and misbegotten youth on all sides, and has to work through the stories to sort out her own feelings about him.
Slaughter deftly weaves the two stories together, going back and forth between the past and the present until it is apparent that the present has its roots in the past. It's not an easy novel-- there is plots of brutality, very graphic violence and strong language, but all of it is relevant to the story. As always, Slaughter's strength is in her characters-- Tolliver and Sara and the other people in the book have depth and you can see how their life experiences have shaped them into who they are.
I enjoyed this book a lot and found it hard to put down. I've enjoyed all the books I have read in this series but this one is my favorite.
Summary of Indelible (Grant County)
The internationally bestselling author 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" by Book magazine -- offers another brilliant knife-edge tale of suspense that cements her place among the most outstanding practitioners of crime fiction today.
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 there?s 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
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