This is a good one.

Blindsighted started slow, but with a good rhythm to it that made me want to keep going. I’ve read Karin Slaughter before, and it didn’t disappoint - neither did Blindsighted. It is worth the scene setting in the forefront.

The small county of Grant doesn’t see a lot of murders, but when Sybil Adams is found dying on a toilet of the small diner with a cross carved into her torso, things really start to heat up for the sheriff and the coroner; who will see another victim in short order, and then another.

There are a lot of characters involved, none without some baggage and a few with some secrets. Slaughter does a good job of keeping the story moving quickly while not confusing the reader with the large cast. I was deeply invested in Sarah, the coroner, Lena, the half-cocked deputy and sister of the first victim, Jeffrey, the sheriff who never falters in his duties, but sucks as a husband; or does he? The ancillary members of the book round out this incredibly well-written, layered book. You will find yourself speed-reading at the end to find out whodunnit.

TW: There are some graphic sexual violence scenes.

Five stars for Blindsighted. And while I am looking forward to my next Karin Slaughter read, like any good murder mystery, I need to rest in between - this one will haunt me for a day or two. ( )

(2001) Really good first novel by this author. Sara, a part-time coroner and full-time pediatrician in a small town in Georgia finds a blind university professor raped in a bathroom of the local diner. Unable to save her life, she becomes obsessed with finding the murderer along with her ex-husband and his deputy, Lena, who also is the victim's sister. As they try to make sense of this another girl becomes another victim and the trail leads to a man who was convicted of raping Sara several years ago. Red herring, the perp is actually a local pharmacist. Sara winds up killing Jeb as he is attacking her in her house. He had also abducted Lena and hid her in the attic of his house. Once they know who has done it they are able to find her, but too late to save her from the rape and torture Jeb has inflicted. First of a series.KIRKUS REVIEWSince she doubles as pediatrician and coroner for Georgia's Grant County, Dr. Sara Linton is used to trauma. But she doesn't expect it to follow her when she goes to lunch with her plumber sister Tessa and finds Prof. Sibyl Adams, a blind chemist at the Grant Institute of Technology, dying on a toilet seat in the ladies' room from a frightful series of wounds. Once Sara gets Sibyl Adams on the postmortem table, the ghoulish revelations just keep on coming. And her death is only the beginning. Julia Matthews, a coed who's disappeared from her Grant dorm, rapidly turns into another casualty of the same monstrous assailant, a man whose outrages are clearly escalating. Though they don't see eye to eye on very much at all, Sara and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, both agree with Sibyl's twin sister Lena Adams, a hotheaded police detective who keeps throwing herself into the case, that the perp isn't Will Harris, the black diner help the town seems to have picked out for the job. But is it really Julia's repellant boyfriend Ryan Gordon, or Jack Allen Wright, the man who raped Sara 12 years ago�a secret she never shared with the man who married her¥or some friend or neighbor too close to think of as a suspect at all?Slaughter's first novel copies Patricia Cornwell's bestselling formula right down to the flaws: gruesome forensics, inventive plotting, strong/imperiled heroine who has problems with down-home male authority, a Perils of Pauline climax. Perfect escapist fare for readers well supplied with Maalox.Pub Date: Sept. 17th, 2001ISBN: 0-688-17457-4Page count: 320ppPublisher: Morrow/HarperCollinsReview Posted Online: May 20th, 2010Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15th, 2001

Solid first novel. The characters were well defined and I particularly liked Sara and her family as well as Jeffrey. The murder was a little graphic, but I can skim through that stuff. The title was spot on, but I won't go into that at the risk of including spoilers. I got this from the library because I loved the Will Trent TV series and this was the first of Slaughter's works. Trent isn't introduced until several books later, but I like to start at the beginning and see origin stories of the various characters. ( )

Typical crime thriller. Deranged psychopath hacking up women... not very creative, but a page tuner. ( )

El tranquilo pueblo de Heartsdale entra en panico cuando Sara Linton, la forense del lugar, encuentra a una joven profesora muerta en el bar. Ademas de ser violada salvajemente, le han hecho dos profundas incisiones en forma de cruz sobre el estomago. Pero es al comenzar la autopsia que Sara se da cuenta de la increible brutalidad del asesino.Cuando una segunda victima aparece crucificada unos dias mas tarde, el jefe de policia Jeffrey Tolliver, el ex marido de Sara, tiene que enfrentarse al hecho de que la muerte de la joven profesora no fue un ataque aislado. Se trata de un sadico violador, convertido en asesino, que esta aterrorizando la zona. Sara tampoco puede escapar del terror. Un secreto de su pasado puede ser la llave para encontrar al asesino... a menos que el la encuentre primero.Ceguera es el impactante debut de Karin Slaughter, una lectura escalofriante hasta el final.Karin Slaughter nacio en un pequeño pueblo del sur de Georgia y vive actualmente en Atlanta. Esta trabajando en su segunda novela.