Blindsighted
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A tiny Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is establish cruelly mutilated in the local diner. But it’s only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer’s twisted work becomes clear.
Sara’s ex-spouse, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation — a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another local woman is establish crucified a few days later. But he’s got more than a sadistic serial killer on his hands, for the county’s sole female detective, Lena Adams — the first victim’s sister — want to serve her own justice.
But it is Sara who holds the key to finding the killer. A secret from her past could unmask the brilliantly malevolent psychopath .. or mean her death.
Amazon.com Review
In Blindsighted (book one of an anticipated three featuring Grant County, Georgia, pediatrician and coroner Dr. Sara Linton), first-time novelist Karin Slaughter comes out swinging in right medical examiner fashion. That is to say, covered with blood from the get-go.
Lacking warning, the body jerked violently, pitching forwards and slamming Sara onto the floor. Blood spread out around both of them, and Sara instinctively clawed to get out from under the convulsing woman. With her feet and hands she groped for some kind of buy on the polished bathroom floor. Finally, Sara managed to slide out from bottom her. She turned Sibyl over, cradling her head, trying to help her through the convulsions. Suddenly, the jerking stopped.
Sibyl is, or was, Sibyl Adams, a college professor who had the misfortune of being drugged, savagely raped, slashed, and left for dead in the toilet of the local diner, to be coincidentally learned by Sara Linton. Coincidences don’t stop there, and neither do the rapes and murders. The next is, unimaginably, still more gruesome than the first and it, too, is learned by Dr. Linton. Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver is Sara’s ex-spouse, and mercurial detective Lena Adams, another major player in the ensuing drama, was Sibyl’s twin sister.
And the monster behind these increasingly more depraved acts? Suspects abound, from the diner’s jack-of-all-trades, Will Harris, to Victim No. 2’s boyfriend, to Jack Allen Wright who, a dozen years prior, raped Dr. Linton (that rape had been a secret until now). There are additional possibilities, naturally, and it soon becomes apparent that Sara’s an proposed target.
A graduate of the Patricia Cornwell school of mayhem and gore, Slaughter has faithfully stitched together a quick, engaging, and diverting read perfect with a strong-yet-vulnerable heroine. Characters are nicely if to some extent obviously drawn, the plot is inventive, and the narrative’s pacing quickens the pulse straight to the cliff-hanging denouement. And really, what more can you question of an ME thriller? –Michael Hudson
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Nothing original here, not in the setting, plot or characters. Not even the gore is original. But the writing is competent. I reflect it is grossly unfair to say Slaughter is a worse writer than Kathy Reichs, but, since no one is a worse writer than Reichs!
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
….I also reflect that this book is not terrible. It’s not fantastic, either. I would place it in the middle of the couple hundred mystery and thriller books I read. The writing is competent but kind of flat, like the writer was trying too hard to write a bestseller and did not really care what happened to the characters. Dialogue is wasted on stuff that doesn’t matter a lot of the time so it just takes up space. A bunch of plot points are left hanging. The plot is not original and everything that happens in it has been done way too many times before. I am sick of serial killers and even sicker of reading about ones that are 1,000 times smarter than the real ones. The plot twists are pretty sad. But the worst thing about it is the way K. Slaughter goes into too much detail on the graphic violence parts with no warning or erect-up. To compare her to Thomas Harris is untrue because Harris uses the suggestion of violence to make real terror. Slaughter dumps it on your head like a bucket of blood from “Carrie” and it is just like that. It is fake scary and sort of yucky but too obviously proposed to shock. (But like I said nearly all the books out there right now are like that so it is not like she is any different.) The setting was excellent though and better than most books. I would’ve agreed it 3 stars to place it in the middle but because of the planted reviews I am giving it 2 to try and make the overall rating more accurate.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This was clearly written to feed off the public’s seeming desire for gore. It reads like a how-to manual for serial killers, and the ending is straight out of a Lifetime Originals Movie. It’s that cheesy. Save your money and buy something else from a writer who can do more than coat countless pages with blood to hide a thin plot.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Karin Slaughter has made an incredible debut and is showing her right gift for storytelling. From the first chapter I was drawn into this tiny Georgia town and despised to see it go when the book was over. Her character development was so precise and perfect that I felt as if I was visiting ancient friends. The conversations between Dr. Sara Linton and her sister, Tessa, made me laugh out loud while the details of rape and murder were realistic enough to make a TLC special seem like �Small House on the Prairie�. I cannot start to clarify how this book is clever, witty and horrifying all at the same time. At the end of one chapter I was so shocked I tossed the book aside and made a lap around the room adage, �no, no, no�. Ms. Slaughter is a master of building each chapter more intriguing and suspenseful than the one before. This is much more than a murder mystery in a tiny town. It�s a tale of living, loving and learning to forgive while hanging onto a world that is spinning out of control.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Gratuitous gore and violence, cliche characters and plot. The perfect book for all the readers of slasher serial-killer trash novels. After all the excellent things I’d heard about this book, I can’t judge how poorly written and executed it turned out to be. And there’s two more coming? Well at least I can take them off my ‘want’ list. Too terrible Ms. Slaughter couldn’t include some of the better aspects of the female crime-writers and their characters and place the ‘made-for-TV’ movie stuff out.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5