Dr. Sara Linton has seen some gruesome sights in her work,
but nothing has prepared her for the woman brought into the
ER after being hit by a car. Sara's exam reveals that the
woman had been bound, starved and tortured before the
accident. Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents Will Trent
and Faith Mitchell happen to be at the hospital when the
patient is brought in, and they immediately become
involved, with the grudging assistance of the local cops.
When Will goes out to investigate at the accident scene, he
finds another victim (later identified as
Jacqueline "Jackie" Zabel) and an underground torture
chamber. Jackie is dead; they later discover that she
committed suicide. Apparently, the two women had escaped
their captor and Jackie had killed herself rather than risk
being recaptured.
As Sara strives to save the life of the surviving victim,
known only as "Anna," Will and Faith piece together clues
about Jackie's life and try to determine what the two women
may have had in common. With Anna virtually comatose, the
two agents have no witnesses and little trace evidence from
the underground chamber. But the items they find there and
the injuries that Anna and Jackie sustained are horrifying,
even to the experienced GBI agents. When a woman disappears
from a grocery store parking lot, leaving behind her young
son, Will and Faith find disturbing similarities between
her life, Anna's and Jackie's. The investigation becomes a
race against time to save the latest victim.
This story brings back some familiar characters from
previous books: Sara, Will and Faith. They are all dealing
with personal issues of their own -- Sara with the death of
her husband, Will with his troubled past, and Faith with
two serious health issues. These struggles make them
compelling characters who are vulnerable yet driven,
personally and professionally. I found myself as interested
in the personal lives of the investigators as I was in how
they were solving the case. One intriguing twist is that
the victims are not very likable people, despite what they
have been through, which creates a conflict for the reader.
Don't start this book at night, because once you begin, you
won't want to put it down! And when you're done, you'll
probably want to sleep with the lights on...
In the trauma center of Atlanta’s busiest hospital, Sara
Linton treats the city’s poor, wounded, and unlucky — and
finds refuge from the tragedy that rocked her life in
rural Grant County. Then, in one instant, Sara is thrust
into a frantic police investigation, coming face-to-face
with a tall driven detective and his quiet female
partner…. In Undone, three unforgettable
characters from Karin Slaughter’s New York Times
bestselling novels Faithless and
Fractured collide for the first time, entering an
electrifying race against the clock — and a duel with
unspeakable human evil.
In the backwoods of
suburban Atlanta, where Sara’s patient was found, local
police have set up their investigation. But Georgia Bureau
of Investigation detective Will Trent doesn’t wait for the
go-ahead from his boss — he plunges through police lines,
through the brooding woods, and single-handedly exposes a
hidden house of horror buried beneath the earth. Then he
finds another victim.…
Wresting the case away from
the local police chief, Will and his partner, Faith
Mitchell — a woman keeping explosive secrets of her own —
are called into a related investigation. Another woman — a
smart, upscale, independent young mother — has been
snatched. For the two cops out on the hunt, for the doctor
trying to bring her patient back to life, the truth hits
like a hammer: the killer’s torture chamber has been
found, but the killer is still at work.
In her
latest suspense masterpiece, Karin Slaughter weaves
together the moving, powerful human stories of characters
as real as they are complex and unforgettable. At the same
time she has crafted a work of dazzling storytelling and
spine-tingling mystery — as three people, each with their
own wounds and their own secrets, are all that stands
between a madman and his next crime.
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