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Indelible (Sara Linton, bk 4)
Author: Karin Slaughter

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Publisher: HarperTorch
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780060567118 - ISBN-10: 0060567112
Pages: 352


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover, Audio CD, Hardcover, Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Audio CD

Book Description:
The internationally bestselling author "squarely in the ranks of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs" (Publishers Weekly) shows off her superb talent with this brilliantly conceived, skillfully executed tale of suspense.

In Karin Slaughter's exciting new thriller, an officer is shot point-blank in the Grant County police station and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver is wounded, setting off a terrifying hostage situation with medical examiner Sara Linton at the center. Working outside the station, Lena Adams, newly reinstated to the force, and Frank Wallace, Jeffrey's second in command, must try to piece together who the shooter is and how to rescue their friends before Jeffrey dies. For the sins of the past have caught up with Sara and Jeffrey -- with a vengeance ...

Deftly interweaving present and past, Slaughter -- dubbed "the new face of crime" by Book magazine -- offers another brilliant knife-edge tale of suspense that cements her place among the most outstanding practitioners of crime fiction today.

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Top Member Book Reviews

Kara B. (kizabee) wrote on 12/12/2007...

3 member(s) found this review helpful.

I just love this series. I am so glad that she went into more depth about Jeffery and Sara and the beginning of it all. It definately sheds some light on the other books. I would recommend this book to anyone, but I think you need to read it in order

Shannon Y. (dolphinlover) wrote on 1/14/2007...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

Great ending, whole story was very suspenseful and gave some insight on the characters backgrounds

Teresa H. (WarEagle78) wrote on 11/16/2006...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

This book is the fourth of the Grant County series, and I really feel they should be read in order. This one is different from the others, however, in that the story is split between a time early in Sara and Jeffrey's relationship and the present. A pair of young armed gunmen take over the police station, killing or injuring most of the officers. Were they looking for Jeffrey, and if so why? The characterizations remain true and the story riveting. I've enjoyed all four Grant County stories by Slaughter.

Barbara S. (tioga) wrote on 9/11/2008...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

This fourth book in the Sara Linton series is a very important one. It is two stories in one. The police station is invaded. Some people are killed and others, including children who were taking a tour of the station, and others are taken hostage. There is a back story telling about a visit to Jeffrey Tolliver's home town when he and Sara first started dating.

Karin Slaughter is fast becoming one of my favorite crime story writers. Four stars.

Christina C. (cottre26) - MI wrote on 3/5/2008...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

This was my favorite book of the series! I liked learning about Sara and Jeffery's history and having two mysteries was interesting.

Lynda C. (Readnmachine) wrote on 12/1/2007...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

A complicated structure that flashes forward and backward in time keeps this hostage-situation thriller from resolving too quickly.

Sue L. (ksl1971) wrote on 11/24/2007...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Great Read! Was hard tp put down.


Please Rate these Book Reviews

Robin M. (robinmy) wrote on 4/6/2008...


This is the best book in the Grand County series so far. There is a hostage situation in the present, and flashbacks to Sara and Jeffrey's relationship in the past. It kind of feels like an episode of LOST! Good suspense throughout the book. I highly recommend this book but you should read the series in order.

Heather M. (heather73) wrote on 12/14/2007...


I just finished this book and it is another great Sara Linton novel. Its not so much mystery and murder, but it is definetly a thriller and its great how it delves into the lives and relationshup of Sara and Jeffery.

Paula P. (PKP) wrote on 5/9/2007...


Another good book by this author. I like her style.

Isabella Boni P. wrote on 5/5/2007...


one of the first of her books to read and will read more from her.

Rose M. (RosieToes65) wrote on 5/2/2007...


"Slaughter Excels...You get a lot of bangs for your buck in her new thriller... Indelible will give considerable pleasure."
Washington Post book World

Cindy H. (catnip38) wrote on 3/25/2007...


Sometimes a past comes back to kill.....Another good read by Karin Slaughter.

Durene R. (Berit913) wrote on 3/18/2007...


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-husband 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 small-town world. Because the sins of the past have caught up with Sara and Jeffrey...with a vengeance.

Magda W. (triskellgray) wrote on 2/28/2007...


Very good, I really like all the books in this series.

Meredith S. (meresneade) wrote on 2/4/2007...


I love author! She gets better with every book.

Cheryl (Toni) J. (toni) wrote on 1/8/2007...


#4
Medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver make their fourth appearance in this riveting new back-and-forth thriller that grounds a brutal attack by two young men on the Grant County, Georgia police department in a twelve-year-old Alabama murder case that occurred while Sara and Jeffrey were just beginning their tumultuous romance. En route to a beach vacation shortly after they meet, the couple takes a detour to the small town where Jeffrey grew up and began 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 story than Robert is telling him, and when the skeleton of a young woman with whom both Robert and Tolliver were once involved is discovered 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 put behind him.
Slaughter unravels a convoluted story deftly and smoothly as the action moves between those 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 believe he committed. Threatening to kill whoever stands between them and their target--including eight children on a school field trip at the station house when the bloody siege begins--they execute a deputy they mistakenly believe 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) without interrupting the breathtaking pace of the action or dropping a beat, Slaughter takes this series to a new level of excellence.


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