Karin Slaughter has to be, in my opinion, the best female thriller writer around. Her books are pacy and intriguing and keep you tinger with terror. Absolutely gripping read!

When a teenage quarrel in the small town of Heartsdale explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton - paediatricain and medical examiner - finds herself entangled in a horrific tragedy. And what seems at first to be a terrible but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications when the autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse an ritualistic self-mutilation.