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Undone

Undone, July 2009
Will Trent #3
by Karin Slaughter

Delacorte Press
Featuring: Will Trent; Sara Linton; Faith Mitchell
448 pages
ISBN: 0385341962
EAN: 9780385341967
Kindle: B001NLKTUQ
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"A twisted predator is targeting women in Atlanta. What's the connection among the victims?"

Fresh Fiction Review

Undone
Karin Slaughter

Reviewed by Lenore Howard
Posted June 10, 2009

Suspense Psychological | Thriller Police Procedural

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...

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SUMMARY

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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1 comment posted.

Re: A twisted predator is targeting women in Atlanta. What's the connection among the victims?

Karin is one of my favorite authors and I have to read this one
(Yvonne Butler 4:58pm July 3, 2009)

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