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Karin Slaughter is a new author for me, but after this book she’s one I’ll be watching for in the future.

Jeffry Tolliver is the Grant County, GA police chief. Sara Linton is the medical examiner and his ex-wife. They are still in love with each other which is complicating their working relationship.

One morning, Sara resolves to talk it out with Jeffrey. That same morning, two young men arrive at the station and begin shooting everyone in sight and take hostage all who are left alive after their initial barrage is over.

The book keeps going back and forth between Sara and Jeffrey’s current situation as hostages and their beginnings as lovers. It’s Jeffrey’s past that is the root of the current situation they find themselves in.

Ms. Slaughter draws out the revelations of the who, what and how in this book in a delightful sprinkling of hints here and there. You really have to be paying attention to everything going on even if it seems irrelevant because she’s going to catch you napping if you don’t.

Indelible by Karin Slaughter
Published by Harper Collins Books 2004
ISBN: 0-06-056710-4