A Faint Cold Fear

Karin Slaughter always lives up to her name in her novels. There is a lot of gore and graphic violence and some of the people are rather disgusting humans and you would not want to be around them in real life. This small Georgia town seems to be filled with troubled souls and serial killers and would be too much to take except for the author’s brilliant writing that ***** you into the book and won’t let you go until the end. The book is intense and gripping and doesn’t really have a “happy ending” and leaves more questions than answers. A great read for suspense fans but not for the faint-hearted.

3.5 to 4 stars Slaughter continues to be brutal with the third installment of the Grant County series. Every character has skeletons in their closet. Every relationship is troubled. Nothing is as it seems to be. I am not going higher with my rating on this because I still feel like this book, like the......more

I really struggled to finish this book for a number of reasons. Firstly there is practically no character development. In the last book, Lena was screwed up and Jeffrey and Sara were flirting about not knowing how to commit to their relationship. In this book, nothing had changed! I got bored of Len......more

Sarah Linton is called to the scene of an apparent student suicide and allows her very pregnant sister, Tessa, to accompany her. What happens next sets off a series of tragic and mysterious events that calls into question whether the dead student was a suicide. Most of the story was akin to watching......more

4 Stars Wowza! Talk about Heart-stopping and Gut-wrenching! When Sara Linton is called to a crime scene on a College campus, it appears to be an apparent death by suicide. Then another crime happens, right under her nose. This time it’s personal and it’s bad. Really bad and Sara can’t help but blame h......more