Publisher, BBC Audiobooks America (June 2008)

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Martin Reed is thoroughly average in every way. So how has he wound up with such a pathetic existence? Martin has no friends, no lovers, and no respect. Working as a senior accountant at Southern Toilet Supply and still living with his nagging mother, his sole source of excitement is the crime novels he cherishes. So immersed is Martin in these escapes that he fails to notice the crimes going on all around him. When first one, then another, of his co-workers is brutally murdered, Martin is shocked to become the fetching female investigator's prime suspect. Center stage at last, Martin basks not in the glow of the spotlight, but in the harsh glare of interrogation…

"Slaughter sketches larger-than-life characters using only a few ordinary, hilarious, and revealing details, and narrator Wayne Knight (“Newman" on Seinfeld) gives each an energetic, gloomy, or appropriately over-the-top personality." --AudioFile Magazine

About the Author: Karin Slaughter grew up in a small south Georgia town and lives in Atlanta. The author of the bestsellers Blindsighted and Kisscut, she is currently writing the fourth Grant county novel, Indelible.