"Like the atmosphere of casual malevolence in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" or the contagious suspicion that fuels Rod Serling's "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," creepiness spreads like kudzu in Slaughter's small-town setting."
--Washington Post Book World
"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
"Engrossing...[with] meticulous characterizations"
--People Magazine
"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-squeamish forensics provide grim manifestations of a deeper evil her mystery trumpets without ever quite containing."
--Kirkus Reviews
"...it is the hope of coming upon something good as what Karin Slaughter is writing that keeps me reading crime fiction."
Russ Isabella, Deadly Pleasures