"KISSCUT is a great read. Karin Slaughter deserves all the praise she gets for her razor-sharp plotting and forensic detail. But for me the hook is in her characters and relationships. They are right on the mark. This is crime fiction at its finest." - Michael Connelly "With Blindsighted, Karin Slaughter left a great many thriller writers looking anxiously over their shoulders. With KISSCUT, she leaves them behind. It succeeds brilliantly.
" - John Connolly "An impressive new landmark on the thriller map." - Val McDermid "KISSCUT out Cornwells Cornwell for forensic shivers and out-Harrisses Harris for psychopathic outrageousness. But Slaughter's series also has an attraction found in neither Cornwell nor Harris: Amusing dialogue and situations that arise naturally from her engaging characters and surprisingly inviting settings." - Book Street USA "Engrossing.[with] meticulous characterizations." - People "Creepiness spreads like kudzu in Slaughter's small-town setting." - Washington Post Book World "Karin Slaughter is a fearless writer. She takes us to the deep, dark places other novelists don't dare to go.
Kisscut will cement her reputation as one of the boldest thriller writers working today." - Tess Gerritsen "Slaughter delivers a noir thriller complete with a brooding atmosphere that veers into Southern gothic tradition.[She] gives us an understanding about victims that only a well-constructed hard-boiled novel can. This is a novel that has staying power, because she makes us care so much about the characters." - Florida Sun-Sentinel "Impossible to put down. Slaughter hits all the buttons, providing an original and well-plotted story that doesn't let up until the final sentence." - The Orlando Sentinel "Hard to imagine that such a quiet, shy girl as Slaughter harbors so fiendish a heart.Man, KISSCUT is a killer book, savage but exciting, a strong follow-up to Slaughter's debut in Blindsighted.
" - Albany Times Union "Few young writers show more promise than the thirty-year-old Slaughter. She writes.with skill, anger, sensitivity, and compassion." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution "The undertone of violence is pervasive, even at quiet moments, amplifying Slaughter's equation of intimacy with menace and placing her squarely in the ranks of Cornwell and Reichs." - Publishers Weekly "A fast-paced thriller for those not faint of heart." - Library Journal "It's not easy to transcend a model like Patricia Cornwell, but Slaughter does so in a thriller whose breakneck plotting and not-for-the-sqeamish forensics provide grim manifestations of a deeper evil her mystery trumpets without ever quite containing." - Kirkus Reviews "A tension-filled narrative with plenty of plot twists.This is just the ticket for readers who like their crime fiction on the dark side.
" - Booklist "Though her forensics and investigative writing place her in a league with Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, Slaughter's tweaking of the human condition is key to making her a uniquely original voice in the world of mystery and suspense." - Mississippi Clarion Ledger.