โ Scribed by Slaughter, Karin
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Heart-stopping suspensecutting-edge forensic detailflawless
storytellingthese are the hallmarks of Karin Slaughter's novels. From Faithless to Triptych,
Slaughter's gritty, gripping thrillers have dazzled critics, who crown
her one of the best crime novelists in America.* Now the #1
internationally bestselling author returns to rural Grant County,
Georgia, in a riveting tale of murder in a small town, a troubled woman
cop at the center of it all, and the shocking secrets that keep a killer
just beyond reach
In a stifling jail cell in a hardscrabble
Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams sits in stubborn silence: bruised,
angry, and the only suspect in a horrific murder that left a woman
incinerated beyond recognition. A hundred miles away, Police Chief
Jeffrey Tolliver has gotten the call that his young detective has been
arrested. Jeffrey's wife, pediatrician and medical examiner Sara Linton,
has little patience for Lena or her dramas. Fighting a heartbreaking
malpractice suit, struggling to pick up the pieces of a shattered
career, the last thing Sara needs is to see Jeffrey playing Lena's
knight in shining armor. Sara cannot guess that within days she herself
will be at the center of a bizarre and murderous case.
For Lena
has fled back to the place where she grew up hard, careening back
through the shadows of her past and into a shocking underground world of
bigotry and rage. The man who raised her is slowly killing himself with
drugs. The man who beguiled - and beat - her is reaching out from
prison. And now only Jeffrey and Sara can free Lena from the web of
lies, betrayal, and brutality that has trapped her - as this powerhouse
of a novel races toward its shattering climaxand a final, unforgettable
twist.
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