Kisscut - Karin Slaughter

Kisscut - Karin Slaughter: Like a Lamb to the Slaughter (887 words)
by wendybull - written on 06.03.08 (Very useful, 100 readings)
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Chief Jeffrey Tolliver and his protégée Lena Adams work at Grant County Police Force. Their usual day does not involve much past parking tickets and robberies in the local store, so when Chief Tolliver is forced to shoot thirteen year old Jenny Weaver before she shoots another young teenager, Mark Patterson, at the ice rink in front of near enough the whole town, his week takes a turn for the worse. His ex-wife (who he is dating again) is the local paediatrician and also the town's county coroner. Her autopsy on Jenny reveals far more to her character than anyone could ever have guessed and the reasons behind the culmination of her death are tantalisingly ...

Female or Male authors? Who do you prefer? (860 words)
by samueltyler - written on 07.12.06 (Very useful, 110 readings)
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What difference does the sex of an author make? Does one or the other dominate a genre? It’s probably true that the vast majority of Romance fiction is written by women, whilst Westerns remain the domain of men. This theory falters is certain genres though, and specifically in crime fiction. For every Harlan Coben there is a Patricia Cornwell, for Michael Connelly, a Ruth Rendell. It seems that the genre is equally divided by authors of both sexes, so how come I rarely read the books written by women? It must be some chauvinistic tendency I have that the books written by women will not be aimed at me. With this in mind I decided to read a book by Karin Slaughter, ...