A Faint Cold Fear

Don’t miss the next Will Trent thriller This Is Why We Lied coming this August! The third book in Karin Slaughter’s acclaimed Grant County Series.“[A] page-turner . . . Slaughter’s plot has more twists than a Slinky factory and the characters’ relationships are sharply drawn.” —People starred review“Scary shocking and perfectly suspenseful.” —BookPageSara Linton medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale GA is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus. The mutilated body provides little in the way of clues—and the college authorities are eager to avoid a scandal—but for Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver things don’t add up.Two more suspicious suicides follow and a young woman is brutally attacked. For Sara the violence strikes far too close to home. And as Jeffrey pursues the sadistic killer he discovers that ex-police detective Lena Adams now a security guard on campus may be in possession of crucial information. But bruised and angered by her expulsion from the force Lena seems to be barely capable of protecting herself let alone saving the next victim.