And she won't be the last.
The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, paediatrician and medical examiner, finds Sibyl Adams 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 it's only once Sara starts to perform the post-mortem that the full extent of the killer's brutality becomes clear.
[Sara Linton leaned back in her chair, mumbling a soft 'Yes, Mama' into the telephone]Police chief Jeffrey Tolliver - Sara's ex-husband - is in charge of the investigation, and when a second victim is found, crucified, only a few days later, both Jeffrey and Sara have to face the fact that Sibyl's murder wasn't a one-off attack. What they're dealing with is a seasoned sexual predator. A violent serial killer...
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(Cornerstone Digital, 4 September 2008, first published 1 May 2001, 416 pages, e-book, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveLibs)
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So, after reading and loving #TheSilentWife, I decided to revisit an author I once loved and had drifted away from. I've read a few books in the Grant County series but never the first one. I loved this and devoured it in a few hours. I remember why I loved the author so much. I also remember the book that put me off reading her work. #Kisscut, the second book in the series (I didn't read the books in sequence). #Blindsighted opens brilliantly with Sara finding Sibyl, brutalised but still alive in the toilet of the diner but is unable to save her when she has convulsions and dies in mere seconds. The brutality of Sibyl's attack is horrific; made even worse by the fact she's blind and would have been unable to see who attached her. This made my flesh crawl. Reading #Blindsighted was like bumping into an old friend who hasn't changed at all. I have a lot of catching up to do to get through the books I've missed. The characters were real from the moment they appear on the page. This has all the things I love in a thriller - great characters, intense action, fact pace and twists and turns. I had no idea who the killer was and if Sibyl's murder was linked to other attacks. This is terrific.
