Indelible - Karin Slaughter

Indelible is my fourth Karin Slaughter book and although was one I read quickly as I enjoyed it, it didn't quite live up to the last three in my opinion. Jeffrey Tolliver Chief of Police and his ex-wife (divorced but seeing each other again) Sara Linton are in Jeffrey's office heatedly discussing the point of not getting re-married when Jeffrey is summoned to the front desk by the secretary as there is a young man waiting to see him. Sara gives up the argument and follows Jeffrey through intending to leave the station and carry on with her days work as local paediatrician and county coroner. That is until the young man at the front desk, blasts his ...  Read the complete review

Indelible by Karen Slaughter actually tells two stories within one book however the events in the present story are linked to the one set in the past so there are a series of flash backs to allow the reader to make some sense of the present day goings on. When two heavily armed gunmen burst into a small town police station both medical examiner Sara Linton and her former husband police chief Jeffrey Tolliver are caught up in the cross fire. Tolliver is left seriously wounded and a number of his fellow officers are dead, Linton is left as one of the hostages along with two other police staff and a few school children who were on a school trip. It soon becomes ...  Read the complete review