“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