Faithless - Karin Slaughter

FAITHLESS is Karin Slaughter’s fifth book, which once again is set in the sleepy town of Heartsdale in Grant County, Georgia. (‘Sleepy’? Hah, I’d hate to see what the inhabitants get up to when fully alert!) The story, apart from the suspects, centres around three main characters: local Paediatrician and Medical Examiner on-the-side, Sara Linton and her ex-husband, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver and Lena Adams “the only female Detective on the force”. It took me just over a day to read (would have been less, but a girl has to sleep). Why? Well it’s obvious, isn’t it? I couldn’t put it down. *** A Smidgeon of the Plot*** Sara ...  Read the complete review

“Faithless” is number five in a series of crime fiction novels by author Karin Slaughter. Being a fan of the genre, I was delighted when I first discovered her work and have read each book in the series, most recently “Faithless”. The series centres on Medical Examiner, Sara Linton, and her husband, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver. THE PLOT Sara and Jeffrey stumble upon the dead body of a young woman who appears to have been literally scared to death; her autopsy reveals a terrible and sinister means of death. They trace the girl to an isolated farming community outside Tolliver’s jurisdiction – a community where, it seems, religion is used to ...  Read the complete review

Dr Sara Linton and her husband Chief Jeffrey Tolliver are arguing in the woods backing on to Sara's parent's house when Jeffrey falls over a metal pipe coming out of the ground. They look closer and realise there is something hard buried under the ground. Digging down with their bare hands they find a wooden box and prying open the boards reveals a young girls dead body - hands still in claw shapes as she scratched to be let out of her make shift coffin. Someone had buried her alive and Sara and Jeffrey had their work cut out finding out who did this. The young girl's family are a secluded bunch who run a soy bean farm and employ ex-cons as they get out of ...  Read the complete review

Synopsis During a walk in the woods Sara Linton finds out that her boyfriend, Jeffrey Tolliver, may have contracted hepatitis from the woman he had an affair with years ago, and who broke up their marriage. Sara runs from the situation and Jeffrey runs after her, but suddenly he comes flying into her from behind. On closer inspection he finds that he's tripped over a pipe sticking up out of the ground. Almost immediately they realize there's only one reason for a pipe to be sticking out of the ground like that, and scrabble through the mud, revealing a coffin in the ground, inside are the remains of a young girl, whose face shows the torment of her last few ...  Read the complete review

I love a good crime fiction novel so when I was presented with a buy one get one free voucher on crime fiction novels, this was one of the ones I chose. I had previously bought one of Karin Slaughter's novels on audio CD and really enjoyed it, so I thought I would read one of her books. This book is part of a series featuring Detective Jeffrey Tolliver and a part time medical examiner Sarah Linton. It is number 5 of her series featuring these characters. Although I started half way through the series it wasn't too daunting as the story started with lots of history about what had happened in other novels and effectively filled the reader in on the ...  Read the complete review