Book 39 (of 52) – Beyond Reach

Beyond Reach – Karin Slaughter

Karin Slaughter’s Grant County series comes to an explosive end!  Detective Lena Adams is arrested for murder in her hometown when she is found next to burning car with a corpse in the back seat in the middle of the local high school football field.  Jeffrey Tolliver and Sara Linton, married once again, rush to uncover the truth behind Lena’s involvement while getting their bearings in a town seemingly run by meth-dealing white supremacists.

Beyond Reach wraps up the Grant Country series by killing off the Jeffrey Tolliver character.  At the time, Slaughter intended to continue the series with an entry called Genesis, the beginning of Lena and Sara’s life without Jeffrey, but, instead, turned that into Undone, which introduced Sara and Grant County into the Will Trent series and used the Genesis title overseas.  I would love to go back and re-read that with the context I have now.  Between her new North Falls series, which began earlier this year, and her standalone novels, I still have plenty of Karin Slaughter in my future.