ISBN |
9780804180290 (paperback) |
Name |
Slaughter, Karin, 1971- author. |
Title |
Beyond reach : a novel / Karin Slaughter. |
Published |
New York : Dell Books, 2016. |
©2007 |
London : Arrow, 2011. |
©2007 |
Description |
507 pages ; 20 cm. |
Notes |
Also published under the title: Skin privilege. |
Summary |
In a stifling jail cell in a hardscrabble Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams sits in stubborn silence: bruised, angry, and the only suspect in a horrific murder that left a woman incinerated beyond recognition. A hundred miles away, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver has gotten the call that his young detective has been arrested. Jeffrey's wife, paediatrician and medical examiner Sara Linton, has little patience for Lena or her dramas. Fighting a heartbreaking malpractice suit, struggling to pick up the pieces of a shattered career, the last thing Sara needs is to see Jeffrey playing Lena's knight in shining armour. Sara cannot guess that within days she herself will be at the centre of a bizarre and murderous case. For Lena has fled back to the place where she grew up hard, careening back through the shadows of her past and into a shocking underground world of bigotry and rage. The man who raised her is slowly killing himself with drugs. The man who beguiled and beat her is reaching out from prison. And now only Jeffrey and Sara can free Lena from the web of lies, betrayal, and brutality that has trapped her as this powerhouse of a novel race toward its shattering climax and a final, unforgettable twist. |
Subjects |
Linton, Sara (Fictitious character) Fiction |
Tolliver, Michael (Fictitious character) Fiction |
Women physicians -- Fiction |
Police chiefs -- Fiction |
White supremacy movements -- Fiction |
Wrongful death -- Fiction |
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Fiction |
Genre |
Detective and mystery fiction |
Thrillers (Fiction) |
Added titles |
Skin privilege. |
Series |
Grant County 06. |
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