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Criminal

Criminal, July 2012
Will Trent #6
by Karin Slaughter

Delacorte Press
Featuring: Amanda Wagner; Will Trent
416 pages
ISBN: 0345528506
EAN: 9780345528506
Kindle: B005X0JUBW
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"Two similar murder cases 40 years apart bring forth the intertwined pasts of several GBI agents."

Fresh Fiction Review

Criminal
Karin Slaughter

Reviewed by Tanzey Cutter
Posted July 7, 2012

Thriller Crime

When a beautiful college student from Atlanta is reported missing, Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent can't understand why his supervisor, Amanda Wagner, does not want him investigating the case. That is until he eventually learns that his father, a convicted kidnapper and murderer, was recently released from prison and is living in Atlanta. Has Will's father taken up where he left off before incarceration? Has the case that launched Amanda's career coming back to haunt her, bringing to light events that took place that long-ago summer of Will's birth? Is Will finally going to have answers about why Amanda has always taken such an interest in his life? Going back almost 40 years to the summer Will was born, it's the beginning of female officers serving in the Atlanta Police Department, as well as black officers. Amanda and her good friend Evelyn are only given simple tasks that aren't important or interesting enough for the men to handle. The atmosphere in the station house and from fellow officers on the street is degrading and downright nasty, at times. When the victim of a simple rape case they were assigned turns up dead the day after they interviewed her, the women want to investigate further, feeling it's still their case. Of course, the male officers take over, but they miss a lot of clues the women feel are important. Going behind their backs, Amanda and Evelyn start probing the brutal crime, uncovering an ever-increasing amount of facts about missing girls and unsolved murders. Eventually solving this major case, in spite of their fellow male officers, launches both women's careers. It also placed them in the middle of the mystery concerning Will's birth, parentage, and his life growing up in an orphanage. I have always enjoyed reading Karin Slaughter's thrillers from the very first book. However, CRIMINAL is the absolute, hands down very best one. So many questions are answered in this book about most of the main characters and how they got to be where, and what, they are today. The myriad of compelling characters and the complex plotline will grab your attention and keep you reading long into the night. And the ending is a bombshell. This highly talented author is a master at writing crime thrillers, and I can't wait to see what she has in store for readers in the future. Do not miss reading this fantastic thriller!!

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SUMMARY

Karin Slaughter’s new novel is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder that encompasses forty years, two chillingly similar murder cases, and a good man’s deepest secrets.
 
Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda’s motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before—when Will’s father was imprisoned for murder—this was his home. . . .
 
Flash back nearly forty years. In the summer Will Trent was born, Amanda Wagner is going to college, making Sunday dinners for her father, taking her first steps in the boys’ club that is the Atlanta Police Department. One of her first cases is to investigate a brutal crime in one of the city’s worst neighborhoods. Amanda and her partner, Evelyn, are the only ones who seem to care if an arrest is ever made.
 
Now the case that launched Amanda’s career has suddenly come back to life, intertwined with the long-held mystery of Will’s birth and parentage. And these two dauntless investigators will each need to face down demons from the past if they are to prevent an even greater terror from being unleashed.
 
A masterpiece of character, atmosphere, and riveting suspense, Criminal is the most powerful and moving novel yet from one of our most gifted storytellers at work today.


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