Sara Linton

Grant County, Georgia is a fictional place used for the settings of Karin Slaughter's novels. The main characters in these novels are Sara Linton, Jeffrey Tolliver, and Lena Adams. The Grant County books are Blindsighted, Kisscut, A Faint Cold Fear, Indelible, Faithless, and Beyond Reach. (Additional titles may have been used outside of the US market.) Over 17 million Karin Slaughter novels have been sold worldwide, and they have been translated into 30 languages.

Sara Linton is the pediatrician and coroner for the town of Heartsdale, in rural Grant County, Georgia. She was born in Heartsdale at the Grant Medical Center and grew up in the town. An excellent student, in middle school she developed an interest in science and was able to get college-level tutoring from some of the professors at the local technological university. Sara went to Robert E. Lee High School, where, due to her intelligence and hard work, she finished a year early. She spent her teenage summers working for her father's plumbing business, Linton & Daughters, and as a result is still an accomplished plumber. She could have gone into the family business but a fear of spider-ridden crawl spaces and the desire for challenge took her off to school amid the bright lights and big city excitement of Atlanta.

Sara attended Emory University on scholarship and obtained her medical degree, and also ran track. After college, she served her medical internship at Grady Hospital in Atlanta, one of the largest hospitals in the world, then became a pediatric resident there. During one of her shifts at the hospital she was savagely attacked in the restroom, raped, and left for dead. Her assailant was caught and imprisoned, and after the trial Sara returned to Heartsdale. He mailed her and his other victims mocking postcards annually for the next dozen years. The rape resulted in an ectopic pregnancy which led to a partial hysterectomy, and Sara can never have children.

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