A Faint Cold Fear
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A Faint Cold Fear
by Authors:
Karin Slaughter
Released: 16 September, 2003
ISBN: 0688174582
Hardcover
Sales Rank: 52,887
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Customer Review #1:
 A Suspenseful Story with a Clever and Surprising Plot Twist
With her earlier Grant County novels, BLINDSIGHTED and KISSCUT, Karin Slaughter has developed a reputation for imagining --- and describing in excruciating detail --- particularly grisly crimes. Her latest venture, A FAINT COLD FEAR, is not for the faint of heart either. Fans of novels by Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, as well as devotees of the CSI television series, will recognize the familiar territory of the crime scene and autopsy table in Slaughters work. Its too easy, though, to dismiss Slaughters suspense novels as mere vehicles for gratuitous violence; instead, these novels use violent crime as vehicles for exploring the psychological scars crime leaves not only on its victims but also on the professionals who deal with it every day.A FAINT COLD FEAR starts off with a bang, with the discovery of the body of Andy Rosen, a young man who apparently committed suicide by jumping off a bridge. When medical examiner Sara Lintons extremely pregnant sister is stabbed at the scene, though, Sara and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, refuse to believe the two crimes are unrelated. Soon Sara and Jeffrey are caught up in unraveling family secrets and campus politics, as their investigation leads them into the classrooms and labs at the large university that dominates life in their small Georgia town. Because of the personal nature of the crime, Sara spends her time not only tracking down a killer but also worrying about the health of her seriously wounded sister. In addition, she finds herself questioning not only her growing involvement with Jeffrey but also her professional choices. At the psychological heart of the story, however, is Lena Adams, the former cop who has turned to working for campus security following her inability to recover psychologically from her sisters murder and her own rape in an earlier novel. Lena inexplicably becomes romantically involved with a menacing young man with a violent past, who also is one of the key suspects in the current rash of violent crimes around campus. This self-destructive relationship is one venue in which the author explores the legacy and scars of domestic abuse, a theme that runs throughout the book. Although Slaughter spends a lot of pages exploring the ways in which Lenas status as victim continues to affect her life and work, gone is the navel-gazing that disrupted the flow and pacing of Slaughters previous novel, KISSCUT. Instead, A FAINT COLD FEAR sustains a suspenseful trajectory, with just enough red herrings to keep readers guessing. Although some loose ends are tied up almost as afterthoughts, one key plot twist, cleverly dangled out to careful readers in the books closing paragraphs, will surprise many and keep everyone on the edge of their seats awaiting the next installment in Slaughters series. --- Reviewed by Norah Piehl
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Customer Review #2:
The best from Karin Slaughter
This is the 3rd book in Karin Slaughters series about pediatrician and ME Sara Linton. It is the best of the 3, but still not a 5-star read. The characters are still a little bit annoying, and the plots are still a little bit too much like Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, but that said, I enjoyed A Faint Cold Fear, and found it well written and myself guessing nearly to the end.
Sara has to examine an apparent college-suicide, and everything is going well until her sister Tessa is stabbed and nearly killed. Tessa is pregnant, and her boyfriend is black. When Sara and her ex husband, Chief of Police Jefferey Tolliver, discovers that the suicide was Jewish, speculation starts. Was it really a suicide, or was it murder. Could it all be connected through some racist-thing, are there white supremacists on campus or is it all coincidental? Working sometimes against, sometimes with Sara and Jeffrey we find Lena Adams, one of Jefferey Tollivers former detectives, who are now licking her wounds after a brutal rape, working as a campus security guard. Lena Adams is brought into the investigation because it seems like she knows something is going on around campus.
It is not until the final pages we find out what really happened, and all the way to the end of this book you will find yourself entertained, but there is a risk you will find some of the characters, specially Lena Adams, a little "too much" sometimes.
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Customer Review #3:
 Lack of research
I read all the reviews and not one mentioned a very glaring error. The terms "gauge," "skeet," "caliber," and "rifle" are not synonymous. Yet, Karin Slaughter uses them together, switches back and forth between them to a confusing degree. I dont pretend to be an expert in firearms, but I do know that sportsmen shoot skeet with a shotgun, not a rifle. And the ammunition for a shotgun is measured by gauge, not caliber. A rifle is an entirely different weapon using ammo measured in calibers. And her coroner and a police chief dont know the difference? Come on now. Im closing the book forever on page 143 and deliver me from careless authors.
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