Blindsighted – Karin Slaughter

The sleepy community of Grant County, Georgia is rocked when a blind woman, the sister of a police detective, is found raped and mutilated.  After a second woman, a local college student, is found after having been crucified and raped, the local pediatrician/coroner tells her ex-husband. police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, about her own attack years prior in Atlanta.  When a third woman goes missing, the clues start to come together, but is there still enough time to stop the rapist before he moves on to another victim?

Blindsighted is the first entry in Karin Slaughter’s older Grant County series, which I am once again reading out of order, both within itself and in relation to the Will Trent series.  Because of this, some of the reveals play a little differently.  For one, the reveal of Sarah’s rape is completely blunted, as this is already known information.  On the opposite side, the initial murder of Sibyl Adams cuts much deeper, having more familiarity with her character and with Lena from future stories.  With four more books to go in this series and a new Will Trent entry coming later this summer, there will be plenty of Slaughter to go around for the foreseeable future.