A faint cold fear
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- ISBN: 0792743938 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9780792743934 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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remote - Publisher: [North Kingstown, R.I.] : BBC Audiobooks America, 2003.
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General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Complete and unabridged. Duration: 12:12:29. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Debrah Hazlett. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 175515 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Police -- Georgia -- Fiction Women physicians -- Fiction Police chiefs -- Fiction Georgia -- Fiction |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. Mystery fiction. |
Electronic resources
- AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2004 April/May
Bodies are cropping up everywhere, bringing together a seemingly unrelated cast of characters. In earlier novels, Karin Slaughter developed a reputation for describing horrific crimes in excruciating detail. This novel also unravels a legacy of brutal violence. Deborah Hazlett absorbs each character role with casual subtlety. Her inflection and pace will leave no doubt in listeners' minds about the significance of various medical symptoms, and her perfect pronunciation of medical terminology and authoritative tone add authenticity to her performance. Major clues in each CD keep listeners riveted from beginning to end. K.A.T. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine - Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2003 September #1
Slaughter returns with the third riveting entry in her Grant County series, in which her lead characters seem to suffer as much as the victims of the horrific crimes they investigate. County coroner Sara Linton arrives at a crime scene with her sister in tow. She consults with her ex-husband, Detective Jeffrey Tolliver, and Lena Adams, a former policewoman who jumped ship rather than undergo psychological counseling and is now employed as part of the security force for the local college. Within minutes, they determine that the victim jumped off a bridge and had recently slashed his wrists and undergone genital piercing. But their investigation is interrupted by a devastating discovery--Sara's heavily pregnant sister has been stabbed. Jeffrey, Sara, and Lena join forces to determine whether the events are related, but their work is fraught with interpersonal difficulties, and their small town, once a safe haven, starts to seem like a claustrophobic and terrifying place. Slaughter knows how to ratchet up the psychological tension in a compelling plot with an unexpected twist. And Lena is a fascinating character, in thrall to a dark compulsion to play out her fears in unnerving sex games. Chilling and addictive reading. ((Reviewed September 1, 2003))Copyright 2003 Booklist Reviews - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2003 August #1
Lena Adams, the cop-turned-security-guard whose twin sister was murdered in the opening scene of Slaughter's striking debut (Blindsighted, 2001), takes center stage in this third volume.Readers familiar with the gruesome doings in Grant County, Georgia, may be lulled into a false sense of security when the opening calls pediatrician/medical examiner Sara Linton (Kisscut, 2002) to the scene of nothing worse than the apparent suicide of Andy Rosen, a Grant Tech student who took a header from a bridge. But Sara's cool examination of the corpse is only the prelude to the real horror that comes when Tessa, the very pregnant sister she's brought along for the ride, steps into the woods and is savagely attacked by a knife-wielding assailant. As Sara alternates between hovering over Tessa's hospital bed and listening to her conscientious parents tell her it wasn't her fault, the investigation explodes in a sequel violent enough to make Lena check out the sex-and-drugs Grant Tech scene on her own, bringing her face to face once more with the nightmare of her abduction and rape-and enough to make Sara think twice about that suicide verdict.Though the plot tails off in complications that make this the least coherent and satisfying in the series so far, Slaughter keeps baring her living characters' psychic wounds in scene after scene with a remarkable intensity the reigning postmortem specialists, Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, can't match.Author tour. Agent: Victoria Sanders Copyright Kirkus 2003 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2003 June #2
Medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver are up against a bunch of suspicious campus suicides. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2003 August #4
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. (Oct.) Forecast: A Faint Cold Fear was recently selected as the second International Book of the Month (Harlan Coben's No Second Chance was the first), so look for this thriller to hit bestseller lists both here and overseas. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.