A Faint Cold Fear
The gripping crime mystery thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author (Grant County Series, Book 3)
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4.3 • 223 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
A suicide on a college campus.
A tragic case with a simple resolution.
But for medical examiner Sara Linton, it just does not add up. When two more suspicious deaths follow and a young woman is brutally attacked, it soon becomes clear that she is looking for a murderer.
The college authorities are reluctant to cooperate and Sara isn't any closer to finding the answers she needs.
With the violence triggering memories of a past she would rather forget and the clues pointing ever closer to home, can she uncover the truth in time to save the next victim?
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'I would follow her anywhere' GILLIAN FLYNN
'One of the boldest thriller writers working today' TESS GERRITSEN
'Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled' MICHAEL CONNELLY
'Passion, intensity, and humanity' LEE CHILD
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'A great writer at the peak of her powers' PETER JAMES
'Raw, powerful and utterly gripping!' KATHRYN STOCKETT
'With heart and skill Karin Slaughter keeps you hooked from the first page until the very last. . .' CAMILLA LACKBERG
'Amongst the world's greatest and finest crime writers' YRSA SIGURÐARDÓTTIR
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the coldly captivating tradition of Cornwell and Reichs, Slaughter (Blindsighted; Kisscut) returns to Grant County, Ga., to offer a third installment in the adventures of smalltown pediatrician and part-time medical examiner Sara Linton. Called in to investigate the apparent suicide of a male Grant Tech student, Sara brings along her pregnant sister, Tessa, who wanders away from the scene and is brutally attacked. The distraught Sara must work side by side with her ex-husband, Det. Jeffrey Tolliver, whom she loves despite his past infidelity, but it's Lena Adams, formerly a cop and now a campus security guard, whose story the novel follows most closely. Still mourning the murder of her sister and recovering from her own torture and rape by the same man, Lena is looked on with suspicion by her ex-boss, Jeffrey. With reason: she's hiding a few key facts. The dead boy's mother is her therapist and Lena is involved with an abusive young man with a shady past. Campus gossip Richard Carter further confuses investigators; meanwhile, police discover the bodies of two more students, their deaths potentially suicides but more likely murder. Slaughter provides grisly variations on the themes of sibling rivalry, sexual abuse and campus politics in a story not for the faint of heart. Readers who can stomach gruesome details and like fitting together multiple stories of physical and psychological abuse will savor the way Slaughter can evoke sympathy for perverse, even criminal, behavior by tracing its origins, and those who make it through the complexities and the gore will be rewarded with a satisfyingly chilling ending.
Customer Reviews
A feint cold heart
Excellent, a page turner for sure. However I feel that the necessity to keep going over the layout of the town -hospital - and the lives of the people who have already featured in previous episodes is such a waste of time. If someone starts to read one of the series and the feel like they missed something then they need to go back and start reading from book 1. The other aggravating thing is the constant arguments between Jeffrey and Sarah as well as the jealousy issues.
Garbage plus
I bought the first 3 books in this series going on other people’s reviews and I wish I had stuck with it buying the other two until I had actually read the first book in this series. She doesn’t come close to the calibre of the writing that’s done by Cody McFayden’s Smokey Barrett series. I definitely won’t be reading the last 3 books in this series after the first 3 being such garbage to read