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Blindsighted (Grant County #1)

by Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author)

4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 · rating details · 17,381 ratings · 770 reviews

A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work becomes clear.

Sara's ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation -- a trail of terror that grows increasingl...more

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Published October 1st 2002 by HarperTorch (first published 2001)

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Oct 22, 2010 Tammy Walton Grant rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: thriller, 2010-october

3.5 stars

I think this is the second book by Karin Slaughter that I have sat down and read straight through.

For a forensic-type thriller I enjoyed it. Slaughter has thought up some pretty gruesome twists on a serial rapist/murderer plot, and I liked Tolliver, the chief of police, quite a bit. I also liked Sara Linton, the other main character. She is the coroner and also Tolliver's ex-wife. The tension get ratcheted up early on, and Slaughter keeps it up until the end. I only flipped ahead to se...more 3.5 stars

I think this is the second book by Karin Slaughter that I have sat down and read straight through.

For a forensic-type thriller I enjoyed it. Slaughter has thought up some pretty gruesome twists on a serial rapist/murderer plot, and I liked Tolliver, the chief of police, quite a bit. I also liked Sara Linton, the other main character. She is the coroner and also Tolliver's ex-wife. The tension get ratcheted up early on, and Slaughter keeps it up until the end. I only flipped ahead to see who did it ONCE, which is high praise from someone like me (I suffer from book ADD, lol)

I had a couple of problems with this book, though -- mostly to do with the way the series is being set up. The author seems to have glossed over a couple of really important details in the character development at the beginning and then drops them in (WHAM!) later on in the book. I'm not a big fan of that style, mostly because I spend the first half of the book thinking I've missed something. If there was foreshadowing going on I missed it.

That's the feeling that I got with most of the book - like you'd gotten dropped into town on Main Street, by sheer happenstance on the day there is a gory, nasty murder in the diner. You don't know anyone, you don't understand the dynamics of their relationships (and they are ALL related somehow) and you're left fumbling around for half the book until author lets us in on what's happened.

She seems to be being deliberately vague on some aspects of the main characters, when I think if she'd let you in on them you'd care a little more about her people. Maybe she's holding back - there are at least 6 books in this series, I think.

There was a storyline from the beginning that just seemed to get dropped and never picked up again. On the same day as the murder (main plot point) happens, Sara Linton, (a pediatrician at her day job) has just gotten word that one of her patients has terminal cancer. We get a few paragraphs about how hard this is going to be for her, how she has to set up an appointment with the family to give them the diagnosis, she thinks about the little boy (who, she thinks, has the largest Matchbox or Hot Wheels car collection she personally has ever seen) and reflects on the fact that in a year he'd probably be dead. She has the appointment with the family just before the briefing with the police on the murder, AND WE NEVER HEAR ANOTHER THING ABOUT THAT FAMILY AGAIN. What was the point? If it's a red herring it's a pretty stupid one, if you ask me.

There were a few things like that that bugged me about the book.

Overall, though, I'm invested enough to read the second book to see where Karin Slaughter takes me next. I'd recommend it for those who like police/forensic procedurals, with a smidge of romance thrown in.(less)

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May 12, 2013 Donna The Happy Booker rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: criminal-element, blood-and-gore, read-in-2013, southern-fiction, thriller

Blindsighted was an okay read. The gory bits were explained in explicit and excruciating detail, which were as fascinating as they were disturbing. The crime itself was satisfactorily shocking and unpleasant. These were the things that worked for me in the story. Where Blindsighted fell flat was in just about every other area, characterization, plot, dialog, and in the relationships between the characters.

The plot was very simple, someone killed a blind woman in a very horrific way and the dete...more Blindsighted was an okay read. The gory bits were explained in explicit and excruciating detail, which were as fascinating as they were disturbing. The crime itself was satisfactorily shocking and unpleasant. These were the things that worked for me in the story. Where Blindsighted fell flat was in just about every other area, characterization, plot, dialog, and in the relationships between the characters.

The plot was very simple, someone killed a blind woman in a very horrific way and the detectives are trying to find out who did it. There was little to no suspense or building to a dramatic conclusion. Some things happened, some people reacted, then the culprit revealed himself, and it was all resolved and loose ends tied up simply and conveniently. The plot never gained much more dimension than that.

The relationships between the characters, the siblings, the ex husband/wife, relatives, friends, etc, I never felt anything about any of the characters so I cared very little about their relationship, therefore the emotional pull that is usually present in these type of stories was missing for me. A lot of personal stories of traumatic events experienced by these characters was kind of thrown at the reader I assume to create that connection, but it fell far short because of the lack of life and personality shown by the characters themselves. They never gained a distinctive "voice" within the story and were all just paper thin and lifeless, I remained completely disconnected from them which ultimately kills a story for me.

The ending was anticlimactic, mainly because I didn't really care at that point about the characters and had no idea who the villain was or why he was doing what he did. I had very little invested into the story and the ending wasn't anything resembling suspenseful or action packed. Questions were answered but only in the most basic surface kind of way, exactly like all the rest of the plot, characters, etc. It was all very shallow. The crime itself, and the autopsy, were the most interesting thing about the book.

So, Blindsighted was mildly interesting because of the nature of the crime and the shocking gory details, but is definitely not a book I would recommend, although I will say that I did finish the book which, in itself says that it is readable because I rarely hesitate to put down a book that loses me. I will continue reading this author who is highly recommended by several reviewers whose opinions I value so I assume the quality of the storytelling improves in her other books. (less)

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Mar 11, 2013 Cynthisa rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: aa_series_last-book-read-in, mysteries_and_crime, z_mmxiii

The many ERRORS in the medical issues of the book made it hard for me to enjoy what otherwise would have been a decent thriller. It's hard to excuse such glaring errors in a book in which a main character is supposed to be a physician and also a coroner. As an example, despite the dramatic pronouncement of the supposed expert on the drug ("There's no known antidote."), atropine (belladonna) DOES have an antidote (and the science of these types of nerve agents are well known, like Physiology 101...more The many ERRORS in the medical issues of the book made it hard for me to enjoy what otherwise would have been a decent thriller. It's hard to excuse such glaring errors in a book in which a main character is supposed to be a physician and also a coroner. As an example, despite the dramatic pronouncement of the supposed expert on the drug ("There's no known antidote."), atropine (belladonna) DOES have an antidote (and the science of these types of nerve agents are well known, like Physiology 101 stuff) and person hospitalized for atropine intoxication would certainly be given the antidote (scopalomine). I'm not even a doctor, but even I remember this from a physiology class I took 20 years ago! Likewise, "partial hysterectomies" are NOT the treatment for the issue that Sara faced. That's just dumb. And so on. Those are just the immediate examples that come to mind.... Ugh!
LATER: Well, I finished the book. Found it to be a decent, if fairly typical, female doctor-cop-or-lawyer-in-peril sort of plot. The characters were well-fleshed out and each had convincing backstories. But, in the end, as a reader I am left thinking, WHY should all of these things have occurred? Or, perhaps, why NOW? A very odd collection of crimes, clues and possible motives, etc., that seem convincing enough as you are reading them. But now, mulling over the book in its entirety, it seems like there are quite a few holes in the story. The medical and forensic mistakes being just the smallest of these. These holes are why I downgraded what would have been a solid three-star rating to two stars instead. A promising writer, this author, but she's GOT to either do her research better OR at least get a smarter editor to catch these things. Perhaps I'm being harsh, but in this day and age, practically anyone with a tv has learned at least some basic criminology from one "procedural" show or other. So, if an author is going to involve forensics in a book, he or she had BETTER get their facts straight! That's just basic competency in the genre and not too much to expect, I think. Apparently this book is now the first of a series. Perhaps I'll give it one more try with book 2 at some point in the future. But not right away.(less)

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Apr 15, 2011 Wendy Darling rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: thriller-suspense, adult, gory

If you love gritty suspense thrillers, you really must give Karin Slaughter a try. The forensics, the police work, etc are all exceptionally well done, and her characters are fantastic. I'm copying the rest below from my review of Fallen, the eleventh book in the series.

For anyone who is interested in checking out this series, please note that it's important to read them in order since the author wrote two separate series that eventually merge. Here's the order in which they should be read:

Gran...more

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Dec 07, 2010 Kirsty Darbyshire added it

This one is definitely not a book for the squeamish. There's blood, guts and post mortems all over the shop and some of it is the type of thing that I need to read with my eyes closed.

Underneath all the icky stuff - because of all the icky stuff - there's a pretty good story about killings and rapes in small town Georgia (though Georgia's idea of a small town and mine seem to be different in size, this seemed like a rather large town to me). This is the first in the series and Slaughter (great

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Apr 12, 2013 Ingrid Verschelling rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010

Ik had me laten leiden door alle lovende commentaren over deze schrijfster en ik wilde natuurlijk beginnen met haar eerste boek. Achterop het boek staat dat het boek thriller van het jaar is.

Nachtschade is het eerste deel in de Sara Linton-reeks, een debuut van Karin Slaughter, waarin we kennismaken met kinderarts en parttime patholoog-anatoom Sara Linton, haar ex en politiecommissaris Jeffrey Tolliver en de eigenwijze politie-agente Lena Adams. Wanneer Grant County, een stadje in Georgia, in he...more Ik had me laten leiden door alle lovende commentaren over deze schrijfster en ik wilde natuurlijk beginnen met haar eerste boek. Achterop het boek staat dat het boek thriller van het jaar is.

Nachtschade is het eerste deel in de Sara Linton-reeks, een debuut van Karin Slaughter, waarin we kennismaken met kinderarts en parttime patholoog-anatoom Sara Linton, haar ex en politiecommissaris Jeffrey Tolliver en de eigenwijze politie-agente Lena Adams. Wanneer Grant County, een stadje in Georgia, in het zuiden van Amerika wordt opgeschrikt door de wrede verkrachting en moord op een jonge, blinde lerares worden veel oude wonden opgereten en veel nieuwe wonden veroorzaakt. Sara Linton en politiecommissaris Tolliver moeten ondanks hun verstoorde relatie samenwerken om het mysterie van de moord op te lossen. Intussen verricht ook Lena Adams, de zus van het slachtoffer, op eigen houtje naspeuringen. Tijdens het onderzoek lopen de onderlinge spanningen steeds hoger op. Sara draagt een geheim uit het verleden met zich mee dat licht op de zaak zou kunnen werpen, maar zwijgt als het graf. Intussen lijkt Lena zich te vergalopperen aan het onderzoek. Dan dient het volgende slachtoffer zich aan.

In haar debuut 'Nachtschade' staat het gevoel van onveiligheid centraal als in een kleine gemeenschap een serieverkrachter en moordenaar toeslaat. In haar boeken staan steeds drie personages centraal die zich in en rondom de imaginaire plattelandsgemeente Grant County bewegen: politiechef Jeffrey Tolliver, zijn ex en kinderarts annex parttime patholoog-anatoom Sara Linton en de getraumatiseerde agente Lena Adams.

Elk hoofdstuk in het verhaal staat voor een dag. Je kijkt iedere dag door de ogen van een ander personage. Karin Slaughter is goed in het beschrijven van de handelingen van de dader, hoe gruwelijk en wreed ook, en beschrijvingen van situaties. Het verhaal is redelijk, maar ik vond het toch teleurstellend. Hoewel de karakters van Sara en Lena uitgewerkt worden, is dit niet het geval bij de dader. De karakters zijn te plat. Gruwelijk zijn de beschrijvingen van de moorden. Er zijn voor mij veel te veel bloederige details. Een goede thriller heeft dat volgens mij niet nodig. Zelf ben in nooit zo'n liefhebber van een te gedetailleerde beschrijving van geweldsscènes.

Een goed misdaadverhaal weet de lezer te beroeren, zegt Karin Slaughter in een interview. Als mannen over geweld schrijven gaat het over de techniek, over het mes, het bloed. Natuurlijk, de techniek moet kloppen. Maar: ,,Vrouwen schrijven over hoe het voelt, diep van binnen. Ik schrijf niet om te schokken, maar het is belangrijk dat je een reactie ontlokt. Een mens hoort emotioneel geraakt te zijn als het gaat over zoiets als kindermisbruik. Daarom is het heel belangrijk hoe je het opschrijft, met een subtiel gevoel van verontwaardiging en morele overtuiging.'' Als dat de beweegreden is om zulke bloederige details te omschrijven, dan heeft ze daar wel resultaat mee, want je vindt wat er gebeurt inderdaad gruwelijk. Het geheim van Sara wordt pas halverwege het boek onthuld. Hierdoor valt een aantal zaken op hun plek. Het werpt ook een ander licht op het mislukte huwelijk tussen Sara en Jeffrey. De dader viel snel te ontmaskeren. Voor mij is het nog steeds een raadsel wat de beweegredenen van de dader zijn. Het plot vond ik nogal doorzichtig.

Drie sterren. Gemiddeld, dus. (less)

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Apr 12, 2013 Barbara rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: action-adventure, drama, medicine, mystery, romance-sort-of, serial-killers, social-issues

This isn’t my first foray into the twisted world that Karin Slaughter creates, and it won’t be my last but she does have a hard time keeping me interested in reading about the goings-on in Heartsdale, Georgia. The book begins with a shocking scene: a blind teacher has been raped and apparently (nearly) gutted but is alive when local pediatrician/coroner Dr. Sara Linton finds her. Sara, unable to save her, now faces the task of explaining to her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, what hap...more This isn’t my first foray into the twisted world that Karin Slaughter creates, and it won’t be my last but she does have a hard time keeping me interested in reading about the goings-on in Heartsdale, Georgia. The book begins with a shocking scene: a blind teacher has been raped and apparently (nearly) gutted but is alive when local pediatrician/coroner Dr. Sara Linton finds her. Sara, unable to save her, now faces the task of explaining to her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, what happened. She also now has to explain what happened to the teacher’s sister, detective Lena Adams.

The three characters, Sara, Jeffrey, and Lena, create an explosive triangle of distrust, hero worship, and off-beat friendship. However, they also come across at times as very unlikable people, people who are so damaged they can’t function in normal society. They behave inconsistently and, in Lena’s case, stupidly at times and it’s hard to believe that people with advanced medical degrees or years of job experience would do some of the things that these characters do.
The plot is nicely paced, but there is a lot of dialogue and backstory to wade through.

Interestingly, though, I believed that Lena was going to be the central character in this book since her sister, Sibyl, was the teacher murdered at the outset. But the central character is Sara, whose past rape is described clinically via a court transcript in a later chapter. I guessed the killer before the end, since there weren’t that many suspects to begin with (hey, it is a small town). One of the more problematic aspects of this book is how the author describes the killer’s raping of his victims. She practically eroticizes it, and this is uncomfortable to read. I had the same complaint about Patricia Cornwell’s book “Predator”. She doesn’t simply let the readers know about the killer’s fetishes; she wallows in it.

Slaughter has been compared to Cornwell by other reviewers, but Cornwell’s books are more sharply detailed and her characters more likable. Dr. Sara Linton is no Dr. Kay Scarpetta. And her niece, Lucy Farinelli, would pistol whip the damaged Lena Adams before shooting her.
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Feb 20, 2013 Mike rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Uhmmm...

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Shelves: crime, murder, rape, georgia, series-debut, autopsy, marriage, divorce, coroner, medical-examiner, forensic-evidence, barry-award-nominee-for-best-first, 2013, macavity-award-nominee-for-best-fi, mystery

Blindsighted: Karin Slaughter's first Sara Linton novel

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Karin Slaughter

Welcome to Grant County, Georgia. Don't look for it on a Georgia map. It isn't there. And in this fictional County, there's a fictional town. It's a small town called Heartsdale, somewhere around Madison, but before you hit Augusta.

Eddie Linton and Daughters is a plumbing company in town. But it should...more

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Feb 02, 2013 Katy rated it 4 of 5 stars

After a steady January diet of contemporary, easy-to-read romances, I decided to read one of my favorite suspense authors, Karin Slaughter.

I liked this story, and yet I didn't. It was really dark, and Ms. Slaughter does use graphic details (which makes her a good writer of suspense). A serial rapist is leaving the local doctor/coroner "gifts," the drugged women whom he had raped and disfigured in some way. He feels it's her job to save them, to keep them from dying. The blind college professor d...more

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Nov 19, 2012 Wes Derby rated it 3 of 5 stars

I really didn't know what to expect when I started this series. Back when I used to work for a library, during downtime, or when the phones were really slow, I would search the system for things I thought I might like to read, which is how I discovered this author and series. If you like authors such as Patricia Cornwell, you will love Karin slaughter. Her characters blow those of Cornwell out of the water.

As a lead off book for a series, don't get me wrong… This is an excellent book. I gave it...more

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Nov 12, 2012 anolinde rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Although I enjoyed parts of this story, other aspects were so rage-inducing that I have to rant about them here. I am referring, mostly, to Sara and Jeffrey's relationship.

So, we're told that their marriage ended when Jeffrey cheated on her. That alone is pretty irredeemable in my book, but then Jeffrey gives his reasoning: "She didn't *need* me enough." (paraphrasing) Well, Jeffrey, I'm really sorry that your wife was independent. It must have been really hard for you, what with her not being a...more Although I enjoyed parts of this story, other aspects were so rage-inducing that I have to rant about them here. I am referring, mostly, to Sara and Jeffrey's relationship.

So, we're told that their marriage ended when Jeffrey cheated on her. That alone is pretty irredeemable in my book, but then Jeffrey gives his reasoning: "She didn't *need* me enough." (paraphrasing) Well, Jeffrey, I'm really sorry that your wife was independent. It must have been really hard for you, what with her not being an emotional wreck and/or forced to rely on you for everything. It's a good thing you didn't try to talk to her about it or anything, because we all know that communication never works in a marriage.

Then, later on, when he tells her why she cheated on her, her response is not, "Wow, that's fucked up, bye"; instead, she says, "Well, *now* I need you" (again, paraphrasing), leading to the frustrating conclusion that their reconciliation is inevitable.

But that's not all. At the end of the book, when Sara tells him that she's quitting her job as coroner so she won't have to be around him, he LITERALLY says (and I'm not paraphrasing here), "I don't care if you resign or you move out of town or you change your name, I'm still going to find you." That's not romantic, that's fifty shades of controlling asshole. Sara calls him out on it, but immediately backs down and then invites him over for dinner. What the fuck???

Finally, what REALLY pissed me off was how Sara's mother and sister basically forced her to tell Jeffrey about her rape - and were never called out on it. The sister actually told Sara that she would tell Jeffrey about it if Sara didn't. What the hell? You don't fucking out a rape victim like that. You don't force them to tell other people about their experience. And why is her family even encouraging this relationship, anyway? HE CHEATED ON HER. Why would they want her to trust him with information like that???

Since Sara and Jeffrey are obviously going to do the whole will-we-or-won't-we thing for the rest of the book series and ultimately, I assume, wind up together, I'm going to pass on the other Grant County books. I don't think my blood pressure can take any more of this.

P.S. What happened with the kid who had leukemia? Why was Jeb so adamant that he hadn't raped Sybil's stomach wound? Was he lying, or was someone else there??? Why did no one pay attention to that?(less)

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Jun 04, 2012 Angela Risner rated it 5 of 5 stars

I can't remember what made me pick up the first book of this series, as it wasn't free - but whatever it was, I'm glad for it.

The book opens with a murder and keeps the action going all the way through. Sara Linton, Grant County's pediatrician/coroner (!), shines as the female protagonist, trying to help her ex-husband, Jeffrey, Grant County's Chief of Police, solve the crime before anyone else is harmed.

It's the perfect set up for high drama, as their are many unresolved issues between Sara and...more

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Dec 20, 2009 Barbra rated it 4 of 5 stars

First of this authors books that I have read and really enjoyed this book. Couldn't put it down. Recommended.

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The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, paediatrician and medical examiner, finds Sibyl Adams, a young college professor, dead in the local diner. As well as being viciously raped, Sibyl has been cut: two deep knife wounds form a lethal cross over her stomach. But its only once Sara starts to perform the post-mortem that the full ext...more

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Aug 25, 2009 Kayeb rated it 4 of 5 stars

The book is truly stretching things...and the kind that I always wonder if it gives ideas to folks who want to be hurtful to others. But.... I like the 2 main characters and that keeps me engaged. Rough cops, nasty crimes..... and still some decent character development.

[close:] The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, the town’s pediatrician and coroner, finds Sibyl Adams, a young college professor, dead in the local diner. As well as being viciously raped,...more

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Jan 08, 2013 Lian Tanner rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: crime, thriller

I read 'Fallen' a while ago and really liked it, so wanted to go back to the beginning and read Slaughter's books in order. This one I didn't like so much - partly because the crimes were so utterly awful and disturbing. But the writing was a little less assured too, which I guess is to be expected in a first book. And there were a couple of things that grated on me badly - e.g. a police chief creeping up behind his ex-wife to scare her for a joke at a time when two young women have just been ki...more

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Jul 05, 2011 Ami rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: detective-mystery-thriller

As the first book in a series, the charm of this book for me comes from the relationship between Sara and her ex-husband, Jeffrey. I have a soft-spot for stories about ex-es, because it carries more emotion and I love to see how they reconnect. Other than that, I have likes and dislikes of the characters and story.

Story wise, I'm still a little confused regarding the murderer's motivation, including the "why now" issue. Everything comes a bit blurry to me. The murders are pretty gruesome, contai...more

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Dec 03, 2012 Judy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the first book I've read from my "Recommended" page on Goodreads. I have so many books on my lists that I really don't need to look for more. But my library had this on audio; so decided to try it. Glad I did, though at first the performer's voice grated on me. Guess I got used to it as the plot soon caught me up. Slaughter does a good job of developing her characters, & there were quite a number to get acquainted with. Sarah, the main protagonist is a pediatrician, who also serves a...more

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Feb 19, 2012 V.R. Barkowski rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is the first book in Slaughter's Grant County Series. As with her GBI/Will Trent books, the writing is solid, the violence intense, and the plot character-driven. Blindsighted automatically lost a rating point because I knew the perpetrator from the outset. This pushed the novel into the realm of formula, and Slaughter's competent writing couldn't negate the predicability of the storyline.

My main complaint with Blindsighted is I don't like the protagonist, pediatrician and coroner Sara Lint...more

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Oct 08, 2012 Donna rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book grabs you right away, I haven't read something that made me want to just stay indoors and read nonstop until the end in a very long time! Karin Slaughter is unapologetic in creating a twisted antagonist. Grant County and its people are very realistic and enriched with their own personal struggles, as well.

The only complaint I have about the book is aesthetic, concerning the lack of warning before she switches scenes. Of course, this MIGHT have been a glitch in the Kindle version of th...more

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Jan 19, 2012 Anamy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Okay so I don't normally tend to read non fantasy books but this was an exception (I got nagged in to it). I've been in a bit of a reading slump recently. I'm not sure why but this has really kicked me back into reading shape. This is one of those books that as soon as you read the first chapter you go WOW THIS IS GOOD.

IT has everything you could want from a book. Suspense, drama, gore and romance...and a good whodunit. I admit I knew who the murderer was as soon as he was introduced, because i...more

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Feb 06, 2013 Rhonda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: wichita-public-library, leather-jacket-black-2013

I will not waste time summing up the plot as that has been done in other reviews, as well as in the book description.

Blindsighted is the first book in Slaughter's Grant County series, and a good series opener it is. The story is fast paced with plenty of twists to keep those pages turning. The plot is believable, though a few of the situations perhaps not so much. That being said, there is nothing so outlandish as to prohibit suspension of disbelief. Parts were somewhat predictable, but there we...more

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Jul 03, 2010 Linda G rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Yes

Shelves: suspense, murder-suspense

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Two women are brutally raped in a small Georgia community. Sara Linton works as a pediatrician in Heartsdale. She is also the part time medical coroner for the city so when Sara discovers the first victim by accident at a little diner when she visited the ladies room. She contacts the Chief of Police, Jeffrey Tolliver (ex-husband) to report the murder of a young college professor. As Sara proceeds with the premlimary examination she suspects the victim was drugged, brutally slashed and raped. Je...more

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Oct 19, 2011 Michelle♥ rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: library, goodreads-recommended

Meh.

That pretty much sums it up. There was a lot of gruesome crimes in this book for such a small town.

I had guessed who the bad guy was from the get-go, but still, the whole book just was a "meh" feeling to it.

This was the first book that I've read that goodreads had recommended to me. It was recommended to me because I highly rated The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen. So far, I'm not impressed by their recommendations.

I have another recommendation from them that I am planning on picking up next, so...more

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Aug 03, 2011 Delphine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Interesting debut novel from Karin Slaughter, a writer who has established herself as a brilliant thriller/detective author in the "Sara Linton"-series. "Blindsighted" is the first novel in that series. Everything revolves around the young pathologist Sara Linton, who gets caught up in the hunt for a very brutal serial killer. He kills two women (a 'blind' woman, brutally raped in a toilet) and a troubled girl (who has been crucified, afterwards, she kills herself), and also attempts to murder t...more

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Jan 25, 2010 Jamie rated it 5 of 5 stars

I only ever used to read romance novels. when an old friend laughed whilst reading the third book i read a few lines of what she was rweading, and was intrigued. so he lent me the first book (this one) and all i can say is that's what started my love of karin's books, they go into depth. This book was a real page turner, from getting to know the characters' in depth and following the story it had me intrigued and spellbound from mstart to finish, i didnt want the book to end, and found myself re...more

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Apr 14, 2013 Victoria rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance-suspense-crime-thriller, 2013-wom-challenge, series-1st

The Characters were interesting to read about. Jeffery and Sara were characters that I absolutely loved to read about. I do have to admit that I didn't really care for Lena but her perspective did make the book more interesting.
The plot was a interesting because it starts with Lena's twin sister being found by Sara murdered. They there are some developments while they start solving the crime.

Now what I really enjoyed about this book is while reading this book I couldn't help but notice that ev...more

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Jan 29, 2010 Heather rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book started out with me saying to myself "Oh my god I can't believe she wrote that!" It is a very graphic story and goes against almost every rule of writing mysteries and thrillers when it comes to rape/violence against women. I must repeat that it is very graphic. I commend Karin Slaughter for really putting it out there and making you really see what the villain does.

The book really picked up for me in the last five or so chapters. That is where the meat of the story really is. She did...more

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Dec 07, 2012 John rated it 3 of 5 stars

I enjoyed it. But there was a lot of pretty graphic violence against women.

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Jan 23, 2012 Awilk -will work for books- rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: favourites, horror, law-men, read-in-2012, series-i-follow, suspense

This book came with two other books in this series as a gift. I hadn't read anything by this author before, although I had looked at them when in the bookstore.
If I had known how much I was going to enjoy this story I would have read it on Christmas day and none of my family would have gotten there dinner.
Blindsighted was a great book for me from the very first page. Karin Slaughter has a writing style I very much enjoyed. I also felt a connection to her characters that has made me impatient to...more

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Oct 12, 2011 Chris rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

My first introduction to Karin Slaughter was her newest book, Fallen. I really like the characters in that book and apparently they each have their own series. Since I liked it so much I decided to find out what her first book was and start at the beginning. From what I have found it should be the first book she wrote, and it is the first of the Grant County Series.

This starts off with one of the most brutal crime scenes I have read and doesn’t really let go through out. It was engaging and ver...more

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Karin Slaughter (born 1971), is a US author who debuted with her novel Blindsighted in 2001. It became an international success, made the Dagger Award shortlist for "Best Thriller Debut" of 2001, and has been published in 23 countries.

Slaughter was born in a small southern Georgia community, and now resides in Atlanta. She is widely credited with first coining the term "investigoogling" in 2006.

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