Blindsighted

Don't read this alone. Don't read this after dark. But do read it

Daily Mirror

This gripping debut novel, filled with unremittingly graphic forensic details, is likely to have Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs glancing nervously in their rearview mirrors because rookie Karin Slaughter is off the starting grid as quickly as Michael Schumacher and is closing on them fast

Irish Independent

Chilling but thrilling

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Slaughter ... brings the story to a shattering climax

Sunday Telegraph

Wildly readable... [Slaughter] has been compared to Thomas Harris and Patricia Cornwell, and for once the hype is justified ... deftly craf ted, damnably suspenseful and, in the end, deadly serious ... Slaughter 's plotting is brilliant, her suspense relentless

Washington Post

Pacy and intriguing ... Karin Slaughter builds up the urgency to fever pitch

Punch

Unsparing, exciting, genuinely alarming ... excellent handling of densely woven plot, rich in interactions, well characterised and as subt le as it is shrewd ... A formidable debut

Literary Review

Blindsighted is a debut novel of rare quality that grips like a vice from the first page. It's hard to believe this is Karin Slaughter's first outing, so mature is the prose, so taut the suspense, so extreme the engagement with the reader. Against the backdrop of a small Southern town, a terrible drama is played out that will affect Slaughter's readers as much as it affects her characters. A lot of writers are going to read this and weep

Val McDermid

An extraordinary debut ... Slaughter has created a ferociously taut and terrifying story which is, at the same time, compassionate and real. I defy anyone to read it in more than three sittings.

Denise Mina

Wildly readable...Blindsighted hits the bull's eye.

New York Post