Beyond Reach

Grant County, Georgia, is the setting for this return of Karin Slaughter's fast-moving crime novel, part of her Grant County series. Sara Linton, the county's medical examiner and pediatrician, is already struggling. She is fighting a painful malpractice lawsuit against her own practice. Her husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, learns that his colleague and close friend, detective Lena Adams, has been arrested for murder and wants Sara's help. Sara is unsure she can bear the weight of it all. Yet she and Jeffrey soon find themselves poring over evidence and uncovering a mystery that darkens with each day. As a tangled web of betrayal and revenge starts to come apart, the lives of Sara, Lena and Jeffrey are left hanging by the thinnest of threads. The novel is packed with forensic detail and suspense.