![]() The good news is that Sara and Jeffrey finally have their relationship on solid ground and are adopting a baby. They only have each other to trust, as this is not their town and the local police are questionable. ![]() Taking Sara along for support, they stumble into a mystery of unimaginable proportions that puts them both into extreme danger. Chief Jeffrey Tolliver has been summoned to Lena’s hometown, where she has been arrested for murder. Slaughter was saving it all for this book. I think I always knew that Lena was going to cause some major trouble, and Ms. It’s going to be hard to let them and the characters go. I stumbled upon these books recently by a recommendation on Goodreads and have utterly immersed myself in reading them one right after another. This is a good book on its own, but honestly I purchased it because its a key cog in the entire Grant County/ Will Trent series.īeyond Reach is the sixth and final installment in the Grant County series, and I am so devasted for more than one reason that I cannot stand it. But this is the similar response most of her friends, coworkers and enemies have, so my hats off to Slaughter's character building skills. At the same time I became so frustrated with Lena, a key character in several novels, I was ready to stop listening. I am so lost in her fictional Grant County that I feel as if I live there. I think this is my 12th Slaughter novel in a little over 2 months. There's some clever writing that kept me hanging on tight till the end. Suffice to say Slaughter couldn't exaggerate the effects meth has on a persons body if she wanted too. After finishing the book I googled "meth faces before and after" and the results were, well. ![]() This is because it deals with meth addicts. The mystery is well conceived and sadly accurate. At times she is worthy of 5 stars, but the male characters dropped her score to 3 stars. Nevertheless her performance does not get in the way of the writing. Her voice is naturally deep, but when she reads men her voice is so gravelly and rough they just aren't attractive characters. I gave her 3 stars, even though she has a remarkable voice, especially for feminine characters. ![]() Let me start this with a word about the narrator, Joyce Bean. And now only Jeffrey and Sara can free Lena from the web of lies, betrayal, and brutality that has trapped her - as this powerhouse of a novel races toward its shattering climax.and a final, unforgettable twist. The man who beguiled - and beat - her is reaching out from prison. The man who raised her is slowly killing himself with drugs. Lena has fled back to the place where she grew up hard, careening back through the shadows of her past and into a shocking underground world of bigotry and rage. Sara cannot guess that within days she herself will be at the center of a bizarre and murderous case. Fighting a heartbreaking malpractice suit, struggling to pick up the pieces of a shattered career, the last thing Sara needs is to see Jeffrey playing Lena's knight in shining armor. Jeffrey's wife, pediatrician and medical examiner Sara Linton, has little patience for Lena or her dramas. One hundred miles away, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver has gotten the call that his young detective has been arrested. In a stifling jail cell in a hardscrabble Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams sits in stubborn silence: bruised, angry, and the only suspect in a horrific murder that left a woman incinerated beyond recognition.
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