Blindsighted - Karin Slaughter

Karin Slaughter, Blindsighted Paperback 416 pages (3 October, 2002) Publisher: Arrow; ISBN: 0099421771 It is set in Heartsdale, Georgia, a small city in a southern rural area of the US. The main characters are Sara Linton, a medical examiner and paedatrician, Jeffrey Tolliver, police chief, and Lena Adams, a police detective. At the start of Blindsighted, Sara Linton finds a local woman, Sibyl brutally murdered in the toilets of the local diner. It becomes clear from examining the body later that Sibyl was raped. She contacts Jeffrey, the local police chief, who doesn't believe the rapist/killer will stop at one victim. Lena ...  Read the complete review

Anyone who enjoys thrillers and horror combined should read this book. I have not been able to sit and read a whole book for a few years now since the years of harry potter but this book kept me captivated and i finished it in a day. The story looks at a pediatrician slash coroner and her ex husband the towns sherrif trying to find a serial killer who is rather warped i must add. This book should definatley come with an age limit as there are some scenes that made my stomach churn and that is very hard to do. The book is the first in a series and believe me once you read it you will want to read the rest. i dont really want to tell you much about ...  Read the complete review

Sara Linton has a history. She has a history with her ex-husband, Jeffrey Tolliver, chief of police and she has a history in medicine, being the town’s coroner as well as paediatric doctor. But her biggest history is her secret history, something that happened 12 years ago and is still haunting her today. When Sybil Adams is found by Sara in a toilet cubicle of the local café, mutilated, raped and barely alive from a deep cross shaped cut in her abdomen, Sara does everything she can to save her life, but unfortunately she dies in Sara’s arms. Horrendously involved in the case, both from her locality to Sybil at the time of death and the fact that she performs ...  Read the complete review