Svigt (2002)

"Een mix van verschillende soorten verhaallijnen die door elkaar heen lopen, zorgen voor een aangename afwisseling"
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As always with Karin Slaughter, well written, with a lot of suspense. But some characters are in my opinion over the top. ( )

This was such a good book!! It was so realistic that at times I cringed and had a hard time reading it, but oh man was this a good story!! Can't wait to read the next one! ( )

I really enjoyed this book. The subject matter is difficult but this is a reality in our world, bad people are out there even in small town America. I really like the characters in this series and their relationships with one another. ( )

At first, I felt this story had too much of a drama/almost chick-lit feel to the style of writing – Slaughter is great at character development and intricacies between her characters but it went a bit too far for me in the first part of the book.

Then, the story started to kick in and the more I read, the more I enjoyed it.

Jeffrey Tolliver was interesting, haunted, dark and broody, and driven.

Sara Linton felt like a real woman with a career that takes her into the morgue, guilt about her child clients she has been unable to protect and feelings for Jeffrey (her ex-husband) that are complex and irrational.

Lena is struggling to overcome the events in the first book of this series and we see her very realistically on-the-edge and threatening to go over it.

Plus, there are gruesome and absolutely evil crimes that they will all struggle to deal with and evil perpetrators who are able to run rings around the investigative team. Great stuff.
The crimes in this book are not for the faint-hearted and involve young people, so be warned.

Four stars and I only dropped the last star because of the slow build-up to the real action. I shall definitely be reading the next in this series. ( )