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A Faint Cold Fear (Grant County)
by Karin Slaughter
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harper (2004-07-27)
ISBN: 0060534052
EAN: 9780060534059
Dewy Decimal #: 813.6
Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
Release Date: 2004-07-27
SKU: M130822
Condition: Very Good
Comments: 0060534052 MMPB free of markings. Cover shows very light edge wear. Interior evidences only gentle use, spine is lightly creased & is almost straight, pages clean; overall, a very pretty copy. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
An apparent student suicide has brought medical examiner Sara Linton to the local college campus, along with her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver. But a horribly mutilated corpse yields up few answers. And a suspicious rash of subsequent "suicides" suggests that a different kind of terror is stalking the youth of Heartsdale, Georgia -- a nightmare that is coming to prey on Sara Linton's loved ones. A small town is being transformed into a killing ground. And the key to a sadistic murderer's motive and identity may be held in the unsteady hands of a campus security guard -- a former police detective driven from the force by the hellish memories that will never leave her. Lena Adams survived the unthinkable and has paid a devastating price. Now the survival of future victims may depend upon her ... when she can barely protect herself.
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Customer Reviews
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Disappointed
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-08-10
The book for the most part is well-written. I did care about Sara & Lena up to a point but the story unnecessarily dragged on. But what disappointed me was the unrealisticness of the ending. I saw another reviewer said it is a novel, if you want reality read the news. However, while dramatic freedom is OK for literature, absurdity & stunts insult readers' intelligence. Tessa's survival was absurd. The solution was so far-fetched as to be absurd. And this gimmick of introducing a new plot twist to finally solve the problem, without giving readers any clue beforehand-surprising it was such a mystery anyway, just didn't work for me. And BTW, the cop Jeffrey was clueless & obnoxious, I guess Sara's relationship with him is a prime candidate for "Smart Women, Foolish Choices." And as an aside, somebody should have corrected the spelling of succinylcholine.
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Not very good
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-07-15
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
First the positives:
The over-arching storyline is really a pretty good story. I did want to know who did it so I read until the very end.
Now, the negatives:
Too many characters that are introduced just once and then continually referred to from that moment on by their first name. There are nearly 20 characters that I am supposed to remember with no reminder of what they do in the plot. Just a name and I have to go back in to the book and look up who Kevin or Richard was.
Plot items are brought in (the arrow drawn in the dirt outside the dorm window, for example) that are a big deal for about 3 pages and then are totally dropped.
Lena. Her behavior is insane. She's terrified to be touched (being the victim of a horrific rape), afraid to be out of control and yet she goes to a rave party full of drugs, gets drunk and loses control with a dangerous man who has already hurt her.
The relationship between Lena and Chief Jeffrey Tolliver is so contrived, so "fakey" that it just failed to click at any level for me. Every scene between them seemed forced.
A shotgun IS NOT a rifle. They are both long guns, but they are different. This is not specialized knowledge. Ask anyone who knows a thing about guns and they'll explain the difference. It's not hard. I can't believe no one caught that at the publishing house, either.
Oh, and I love the line on page 180 in which it is explained that Lena was hurt so bad during her rape "that she had needed seven stitches to sew her back together." Wow. Seven stitches.
I also cannot believe that any college campus would let any student, even a student on a skeet-shooting team, keep their gun in their room on campus. Campuses have been gun-sensitive places for years and years. I know of a student who had to live off campus because he refused to leave his skeet guns in a designated locker at a university in Indiana in the 1980s.
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Pretty Good Read
Rating (3)
Date: 2008-06-17
This is the third novel in the Grant County series. The plot in this one, revolves around the investigation of a number of apparent suicides, in the local university campus.
I felt the storyline was pretty good, if not quite unputdownable. There is quite a bit of a 'whodunnit' about it. I thought the the books main characters of Sara Linton, and Jeffrey Tolliver, along with Lena Adams were quite believeable. The dialogue between them was good, as well. The book is certainly worth a read, if you are interested in the thriller genre.
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Great addition to the series!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-01-22
This is a great addition to the Grant County series, and builds nicely on the events of previous books. The ending makes for a nice twist and promises for exciting things to come.
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Excellent Read!!!
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-01-18
I loved this book!!! The addition of Ethan's character is very exciting. I like the tumultuous relationship with Lena. I hope that he continues to play a role in the intertwining lives of Jeff, Sara, and Lena. Keep on reading, the series just gets even better!!!
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