After reading INDELIBLE by Karin Slaughter, I will have now read all of her novels. I realized after reading that I always liked the character Jeffrey Toliver, because he seemed to be the only normal character of the bunch. Well, not after reading this book. It is Tolliver's turn to have his sordid, twisted past revealed. The novel opens with a horrific shootout at the police station where kids are taken hostage and cops are killed.
With the hostages in a standoff, the story skips back in time to More...

I really enjoyed going back in time and finding out about Jeffrey's life when he was growing up. I haven't read the Grant county books in order so I was not prepared for this journey into Jeffrey's past. What an odd assortment of people. I live in Alabama and have been in many small towns and I have to say I have never met such a group of people as described in this book, thank goodness. The story was very tense and I could hardly put it down. I really wish Lena could change her life and find a More...

What I liked about this book was learning the back story of Sara and Jeffery. At first I had a hard time when they kept going back and forth between now and when they went away. Once I had that figured out I couldn't put the book down.

I was surprised at how Jeffery's high school friends treated Sara. The first meeting was bad. If I had been her I would have left. But knowing later things in the book things that were said did make sense. And I can't believe the mom!! I would have slapped her.

I li More...

I had read this one before and still was surprised at various points. Teh unfolding of Jeff and his childhood friends is a fun diversion....even in teh midst of ugliness again.

[close:] 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 ju More...

Knowing that there are more books in this series with Jeffrey in them, you know that no matter what happens to him in this book, he’ll survive. I appreciate knowing this because I hate it when characters I like die. Even when I know that a character will eventually live or who will end up with whom, I enjoy the story that gets there. Karin Slaughter did not disappoint me with this book. There are really two separate plot lines here, but they are linked together, even though you are not really qu More...

I have been tearing through this series over the past five days so I suppose you can say that I am well and truly hooked. This book picks up approximately three months after the last book ended, so roughly one year since the first book. As usual, things come to a head pretty quickly when tragedy strikes at the very heart of the police department but figuring out what's happening means going back to the very beginning. What was interesting with this book is that it switches off between present da More...

A definite improvement over #2 and #3.

Indelible is the fourth installment in Karin Slaughter's Grant county series. In my opinion, it's the best, save the first, Blindsighted.

I won't go over the plot as that has been done in other reviews as well as the book description.

Indelible is written extremely well. The style is different from the previous books in the series in that it switches from present day to the past. I really liked this and it was seamlessly done. There was a lot of background on More...

Don’t have much to say about this book other than I was disappointed. I have been slowly reading the Grant County series one book at a time and was not impressed with the last book, A Faint Cold Fear, but this one was a big let down. I have really enjoyed, for the most part, Karin Slaughter’s writing but this book felt forced and was dull.

In this book the Police station is attacked and taken hostage, the main goal of the attackers is to kill Jeffery Toliver the Chief of police. Once the action More...

Karin Slaughter is a fascinating writer. She has a genuine talent for keeping her stories extremely suspenseful. It’s too bad I haven’t been able to get my hands on her Grant County books in chronology, and as her books are very character-driven, it’s important to understand the main players and where they come from, what they’ve been through separately and together in the right chronology. But I'll get to that eventually.
This story, Indelible, gives you great insight into Jeffrey Tolliver’s pas More...

Indelible starts off with a bang as a group of armed men storm a police station, kill a couple of people and take hostages. Instead of a story that is a seige and negotiation, much of the story is told in the form of flashback in a trip back home for Chief of Police Jeffrey Toliver and his ex-wife Sara as he introduced her to his family and the people he grew up with. The initial flashbacks were jarring becuase they completely removed the reader from the action. The flashback uncovered a sordid More...

Here at last you have the complete back story of Sara and Jeffrey. While it was nice to have some light shed on their beginnings, I wasn't in love with this storyline in general.

The police station in Grant County is under siege (again, small county but SO much crime). But the setup is so that you can go back through time with Sara and Jeffrey and learn that the events of today have much to do with yesterday.

Jeffrey and Sara came from two different worlds - she had a privileged upbringing while h More...

Twelve years ago, Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver went away on holiday. While in the small town where Jeffrey grew up, a terrible crime is committed. In the present, the events of that trip have come back to haunt them.

Much like Slaughter's book Triptych, this is a story that alternates between the past and the present, saving the big reveal for the last minute. Both Sara and Jeffrey are characters with skeletons in the closet, whose relationship is being tried in both the past and the present. More...

I continue to enjoy this series.

I wish she didn't wrap up the unfinished storyline in Kisscut in about 4 sentences, having Dottie "Weaver" killed in a car crash without anyone in Grant County even knowing. It just doesn't do the story justice, as well as confuse the reader referring to her as "Jennings" when we knew her by the name "Dottie" throughout most of the book.

Other than that, Indelible is the most nerve-wracking book yet, in my opinion. I remember when I first read it, my heart nearly stopped beating when Jeffery was More...

So, this book is #4 in a series, which I didn't realize until I sat down to write this review. I don't read a lot of series, but when I do, I notice one of two things:
1. The book doesn't need the book ahead of it to make any sense (aka, M.R. Hall books).
2. Any relevant information that is needed to understand the story is explained briefly by the author, so the reader is up to speed.

This book did neither, and I can only assume that if I were to read books 1, 2 and 3, I might figure it all out. B More...

I enjoyed this immensely because it explains some of the back story about Jeffrey, Sara and Lena that I hadn't already read.

However, going back and forth between two time periods kind of confused me. It was great for suspense but kind of made me go back and scratch my head. OK, where were we? was what I kept asking myself.

Other than that, the suspense is great and we feel Sara's fear when a certain person keeps her against her will. I won't say who it is but it's towards the end of the book. Whe More...

I loved the twists and turns in this book, and it seemed to move at a better pace than some of the earlier grant county series. Certainly learnt more about the main characters (S & J) but the thing that stopped it being a 5 star for me, was the 2 time lines running through the book. I found the chopping and changing between past and present a bit confusing, and given the number of secondary characters and how they are all inter-linked, I did find myself getting lost as to what was happening, More...

2 1/2 - 3 Stars

This installment of the Grant County series left me quite disappointed.

I was anxious to finally read about the early days of Jeffery & Sara's relationship, but the mingled past/present storylines ended up being rather dull. And the inevitable resolution to both stories were more than lacking.

I have a love/hate relationship with Lena throughout this series, and while she had a much smaller role in this book than she has in the previous books, I found myself liking her characte More...

Probably my favorite of Slaughter's books. Read this on vacation in Florida and actually wanted to stay back in the hotel to finish the book rather than got sightseeing. The detail Slaughter puts into the book is such that I got lost in the book and envisioned myself in the story, right next to Sara and Jeffrey.
What is great about Slaughter's writing is that she provides enough detail in each book that you don't necessarily have to read them in order. She references things that happened in previ More...

Indelible begins when two armed men enter the Grant County police headquarters and began shooting up the place, killing several and wounding chief Jeffrey Tolliver in the process, and taking many others hostage. Among these is Tolliver's former wife, physician Sara Linton. Tolliver and Linton are somewhat estranged due to the fact that Linton had recently declined Tolliver's proposal that they remarry. As the hostage drama plays out, Slaughter takes us back to the beginning of their relationship More...

Now that I have read the first four books in this series I am ready to take a break from them. I read this one (#4) because it was to tell more about Jeffrey's background. What a shame. The only thing I can think now is that every character is this series has had a multitude of impossibly bad things happen to them. How could so many, have so much - what do you call it? Bad luck, bad friends, wrong place at the wrong time, bad karma, awful coincidences...I mean come on. Really? I can believe bad More...

#4 in this series. A good one with lots of twists and surprises. Sara, the doctor, is at the police station when all hell breaks loos and her ex-husband (along with a lot of other people) gets shot and then held hostage. While this is going on, the book goes back to when Sara and Jeffrey first start dating and take a mini-vacation back to his hometown. All hell breaks loose there too and they are involved in a murder investigation. And while investigating all that, they discover the bones of a g More...

This was my first Karen Slaughter book, or in this case, audio tape, I've read, even though my dear friend Andrea had recommended her before, and I enjoyed listening, as it was quite gripping at times. I typically prefer to read a book in its original version, but was grateful for her sending it to me in German but had to chuckle at the "German" pronunciation of the English names... especially Kathie.. oh well, I've become so American over the years... the plot line was interesting and a surpris More...

This book has the usual elements of Slaughter's writing that I have come to expect--grisly descriptions and dramatic suspense. But it also is different than her previous Grant County books in that Slaughter weaves two narrative threads together. First, there is the backstory of Sara and Jeffrey, as they return to Jeffrey's hometown to stumble into two murder investigations. Also, there is the hostage takeover that opens the story. The connection between the disjointed settings becomes clear as t More...

The fourth book in the Grant County series and I can honestly say I am really not liking the main characters anymore. I have read and liked the first two novels in the Will Trent series, and now am just reading these Grant County books to get caught up in the story for when the two series combine. This particular story left me questioning a few things about the timeline of this series and just wondering overall how the hell these characters can put up with each others lack of honesty and keeping More...

I'm currently reading this book . . . it was recommended to me by a lady who was reading it at Chick-fil-a! She loved the book by this author. I checked it out of the library . . . the plot is interesting . . . a real who-done-it. However, the language is appalling . . . I'm not a total prude, but there are just too many "yuck" works here. I am going to finish . . . and can't wait to see the outcome! I haven't decided whether I will read others by her or not. I didn't know that this one was numb More...

I was super impressed with this book. It's told in both the past and present. That is, the chapters alternate between being present, in the hostage situation, and reflecting on Sara Linton and Jeffry Tolliver's past. Slaughter wrote with such detail to where the reader feels they are really there, in both stories, times, and places. I felt like I, too, lived in Grant County. I could not put this book down, it was that enthralling, just as a good mystery should be. I recommend this novel to anyo More...

Dr. Sara Linton and her ex-husband Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver are held hostage in the police station along with a class of grade-school children. Slowly, the story reveals that something in Sara and Jeffrey's past has come back to haunt them in the form of two masked cop-killers.
Picked this up to read on the plane, and it was OK for that. I didn't find out until part way through that it was fourth in a series, which explains why a lot of info is left out about supporting characters. May have More...