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Kisscut
by: Karin Slaughter

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780099421788
ISBN: 009942178X
Label: Arrow Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Arrow Books Ltd
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: September 10, 2003
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Studio: Arrow Books Ltd
Sales Rank: 5259

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
Kisscut is a reminder that Karin Slaughter has--with just one previous novel--built a reputation as one of the most powerful and astringent thriller writers at work today. In fact, Slaughter's work represents a development of the Southern Gothic strain, and like so many of her illustrious predecessors, she is adept at exploring the darker reaches of the human psyche. As her last book, Blindsighted, sold over 25,000 copies, it would seem that many of us have become Slaughter aficionados.

Kisscut begins with a particularly explosive opening. In the car park of a skating rink in the small southern town of Heartsdale, chief of police Jeffrey Tolliver witnesses a teenage girl pointing a gun at a man. But the detective, there for a date with his ex-wife Sara (the town's medical examiner and paediatrician), is obliged to shoot the girl to save the boy's life. The subsequent autopsy brings to light a gallery of horrors, and as Tolliver and Sara undertake a particularly difficult investigation, they are met with a wall of silence.

Slaughter is now routinely compared to Thomas Harris, and the comparisons are not far-fetched. We're used to unflinching forensic detail these days (courtesy of such writers as Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell), but Slaughter is adept at unsettling the reader in a whole host of ways, not least through her recurrent suggestion that the patina of normality sustaining her characters is very thin indeed. Jeffrey and Sara's faltering relationship is richly drawn, though we find reduced attention given to their private problems as the novel progresses and the focus shifts more to the author's polished and consummate handling of the tortuous plot. --Barry Forshaw

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- loved it
this book is very very good. It is interesting (no one else seems to have covered this subject) and keeps you guessing.

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- Kisscut
This was the first of this authors books I read. I will not be bothering to read anymore. The main character is one dimensional. The story lacks suspense throughout and the storyline itself is, in my opinion, ridiculous. This is just another poorly written and conceived crime novel by a very mediocre American crime writer. Do not waste your money and time on this book.

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- electric, pacey, captivating and thrilling
I could carry on like this but you would think I'm being paid to gush ;)

Nevertheless, I really enjoyed this book. Although one of the earlier novels from Karin Slaughter, I came to it after reading her others. No problem. Although the characters are beautifully detailed, with plenty of baggage and you learn more about them in each volume, nothing suffers in reading them out of sequence.

The writing is superb and detailed and the attention to characterisation really absorbing. Although there can be a fair sprinkling of medical terminology, it doesn't weigh the book down. The interplay between the two main characters is fun and adds an interesting, sometimes tense dimension to the plot.

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- Shocking
A shocking novel about a shocking subject. This book left me breathless thinking that such horrible crimes happen in real life too. A real page turner I couldn't put down. It was almost painful to read about such a gruesome subject, but at the same time, I wanted to know how it ended and who got caught. The main characters almost fade into the background because of the subject of the story. A book that gets the adrenaline pumping. Almost as shocking as Mo Hayder's Treatment and Birdman.

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- Very good
This is my second Karin Slaughter book after reading Faithless and I think I'm slowly becoming a fan. As with Faithless I found the pace of Kisscut frustrating insomuch as it wasn't a twist a minute like some thrillers. But Kisscut was a very good book all the same and it had just enough twists and turns to keep you entertained.

I can see the logic between comparisons with Karin Slaughter and Thomas Harris as these books are forensically detailed and not your run of the mill good guys vs bad guys kind of story. For me though that's a huge plus as any author that can unsettle me is obviously very good at their job!

I think my biggest problem with this series is that I didn't start reading them from the beginning and ... Read More:

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