The three predominant characters on this collection are Jeffrey Tolliver, Grant County’s police chief; Sara Linton, Tolliver’s ex-wife, a pediatrician, and Grant County’s coroner; and Lena Adams, a Grant County detective who works for Tolliver. All three develop into concerned within the workings of a church (or is it a cult?) after Tolliver and Linton stumble throughout the physique of considered one of its members in a coffin buried within the woods. She had been buried alive. Did she suffocate? Or was she poisoned? Produce other church members suffered the identical destiny?
Each Tolliver and Adams examine, whereas Linton largely acts as Tolliver’s sounding board, though she too turns into concerned to a lesser extent. They discover a church run by a specific giant household. Now can they discover out why the lifeless lady, a member of this household, was buried alive and who did it? On account of their investigation, they discover a lot extra concerning the church and concerning the household that runs it.
As a result of I’ve been studying Slaughter’s two collection out of order, I’ve already learn the subsequent e book, BEYOND REACH. Fortunately, I’ve it in my bookcase so I can skim by it to remind myself of what occurs subsequent.