She was found in the local diner. Brutally murdered. Ritually mutilated.
And she won’t be the last.
The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, pediatrician, 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.
When a second victim is found, crucified, only a few days later, it becomes clear that Sibyl’s brutal murder wasn’t a one-off attack. What Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver are dealing with is a seasoned sexual predator. A violent serial killer…
The first book in Karin Slaughter’s #1 bestselling GRANT COUNTY series.