Karin Slaughter is the "New York Times" and #1 internationally bestselling author of twelve thrillers, including "Criminal, Fallen, Broken, Undone, Fractured, Beyond Reach, Triptych, " and "Faithless." She is a native of Georgia.
Bestseller Slaughter's tense and densely plotted thriller, the fifth to merge her Atlanta-based characters with those in Georgia's fictional Grant County (after 2012's Criminal), focuses on stubborn Lena Adams, a Macon police detective and the woman that Dr. Sara Linton-the girlfriend of Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent-blames for her husband Jeffrey's murder years earlier. Lena, now married to Jeffrey's son from his first marriage, is hot on the trail of a local drug kingpin, Sid Waller. Sent undercover to assist in the investigation, Will adopts the persona of tough ex-con Bill Black, all unbeknownst to Sara. But Will's secret suddenly becomes harder to keep when Lena and her fellow officer husband, Jared, are attacked in their home, leaving Jared clinging to life and bringing Sara from Atlanta to Macon to see her stepson. The twisted plot and shocking reveals remind readers why Slaughter remains a dominant voice in crime fiction. Agent: Victoria Sanders, Victoria Sanders & Associates. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
In the seventh novel (after Criminal) to feature Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent, we find him working undercover as an ex-con trying to infiltrate a drug and sex trafficking ring in order to get to the ultimate prize: a powerful and elusive man called Big Whitey who has expanded business in the Macon area. Meanwhile, an attack on Det. Lena Adams and her husband has left him gravely injured and may have something to do with a recent raid, led by Lena, that went horribly wrong. As Will navigates this particularly brutal world of drug dealers and pimps, he must also balance his job with his still tentative romance with Dr. Sara Linton, who becomes inexorably involved in the case. -VERDICT The grim reality of human trafficking and the drug trade in the South is explored in this superb and emotionally wrenching thriller, and the despicable nature of the crimes being investigated only serves to enhance Will's innate goodness and humanity. Current series fans will be delighted, and newcomers to Slaughter's work will find a new obsession. [See Prepub Alert, 2/15/13; tie-in to Slaughter's Save the Libraries events.]-Kristin Centorcelli, Denton, TX (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
"Current series fans will be delighted, and newcomers to Slaughter's work will find a new obsession."
-- "Library Journal""Narrator Kathleen Early incisively paces Slaughter's eighth Will Trent novel, which pulls in characters and events from her earlier work titled Beyond Reach. Backstory is sharply delivered through the antagonism between Trent's lover, Dr. Sara Linton, and Macon cop Lena Adams. As Agent Trent, of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, seeks to identify hospital-linked drug dealers, he winds up in a more complex scenario with the lines between good and and evil severely twisted. Early makes the most of these chameleon-like characters. The gruff turf war between the high-ranking female cops is terrific...Overall, Slaughter's suspenseful plot keeps the listener as tied up as Will Trent finds himself with this case."
-- "AudioFile""Slaughter's most powerful book to date...No one writes like Slaughter...Her words fairly growl on paper, but yet her descriptions of relationships are tear inducing. This may make her an anomaly but she is the best damn anomaly writing books today. Make sure you read Unseen."
-- "Huffington Post""The secrets and lies mount, leading to heart-pounding and dangerous showdowns."
-- "Romantic Times""The twisted plot and shocking reveals remind readers why Slaughter remains a dominant voice in crime fiction."
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