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Two armed men enter the police station in tiny Heartsdale, Georgia, and open fire. When the shooting stops, an officer is dead, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver is seriously wounded, and the survivors — including a class of grade-school children and medical examiner Sara Linton — are held hostage. In a tense standoff that could erupt at any moment into more bloodletting — with her ex-spouse on the threshold of death — Sara must search for answers and an escape in the memories of a time at the start of their relationship when another brutal, shocking crime shattered their tiny-town world. Because the sins of the past have caught up with Sara and Jeffrey … with a vengeance.
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Medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver make their fourth appearance in this riveting new back-and-into the world thriller that grounds a brutal attack by two young men on the Grant County, Georgia police department in a twelve-year-ancient Alabama murder case that occurred while Sara and Jeffrey were just beginning their tumultuous romance. En route to a beach trip before long after they meet, the couple takes a detour to the tiny town where Jeffrey grew up and started his law enforcement career. But their carefree holiday is interrupted when his best friend from childhood, a fellow cop, is charged with murder after killing a man who broke into his house. Despite his subsequent confession, Jeffrey believes there’s more to the tale than Robert is telling him, and when the skeleton of a young woman with whom both Robert and Tolliver were once involved is learned in a secret cave only they knew about, and Robert admits to her murder too, Tolliver must again confront a past he thought he had long since place behind him.
Slaughter unravels a convoluted tale deftly and smoothly as the action moves between persons long-ago events and the siege of the police station by two young men who are determined to make Jeffrey pay for a crime they judge he committed. Threatening to kill whoever stands between them and their target–including eight children on a school meadow trip at the station house when the bloody siege starts–they do a deputy they mistakenly judge is Tolliver. Skillfully blending past and present events and illuminating the equally convoluted relationship between Sara and Jeffrey (who have married and divorced in the intervening years) lacking interrupting the breathtaking pace of the action or dropping a beat, Slaughter takes this series to a new level of excellence. –Jane Adams
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