Criminal (with bonus novella Snatched)
A Novel
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4,2 • 96 notes
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Description de l’éditeur
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“[A] hold-on-to-your-hat, nail-biting story.”—The Washington Post
“Slaughter’s best yet, by far.”—Lee Child
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 his father was imprisoned for murder, this was Will’s home. It appears that the case that launched Amanda’s career forty years ago has suddenly come back to life—and it involves the long-held mystery of Will’s birth and parentage. Now 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.
Includes Karin Slaughter’s short story “Snatched” and a preview of the Will Trent novel Unseen
“With every page of this story the tension mounts. . . . If you have a hunger for a rich and fulfilling novel then you owe it to yourself to pick up Criminal.”—Huffington Post
“A masterpiece of character, atmosphere and riveting suspense, Criminal is the most powerful and moving novel yet from one of the most gifted storytellers at work today.”—Chicago Daily Herald
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the outset of Slaughter's tense fourth thriller to combine characters from her two crime series (after 2011's Fallen), life is running smoothly for agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation as he eases into a new relationship with Dr. Sara Linton, until the abduction of 19-year-old college student Ashleigh Snyder. When his GBI mentor and boss, Deputy Director Amanda Wagner, specifically tells him to stay away from the case, Will knows something is wrong. Flashback to 1975, when Amanda is a rookie in the Atlanta Police Department, along with Evelyn Mitchell, who later becomes the mother of Faith, Will's GBI partner. The APD at that time is rife with racism and sexism, but Amanda and Evelyn refuse to abandon the case of several missing prostitutes, despite warnings from other (male) detectives to back off. Slaughter seamlessly shifts between past and present, while her usual attentive eye for character and carefully metered violence is on full display. 6 to 8 city author tour.
Avis des utilisateurs
Criminal by Karin Slaughter
Karin Slaughter has done it again I think this is her best book so far. It’s full of excitement and we get to know more about Will and Amanda. It was a binge read and I am going to read it again. I can’t wait for the next book. Read this one it is excellent.
Poor formatting
The book is fantastic but it has not been formatted for iBooks properly. Pages are cut off at the end of every chapter. Very disappointing.
Ho Hum
I have to say that I'm surprised at the difficulty I'm having staying engaged with this new Karin Slaughter. While I don't love most of her books (except one), I'm at least moderately engaged. I'm finding myself a bit bored with what is a seemingly endless initial backstory for a character I've never cared much for anyway, along with a lot of needless grim or gory or bleak over-the-top descriptors in what feels like every paragraph. 'Stinking, putrid stenches', etc. seem to be everywhere, and they're feeling more like word filler than good writing to this reader. Enough already with the constant 'ick' factor. I thought Slaughter's 'Triptych' was a veritable work of suspense art, and I keep waiting for that calibre of story and writing to show up again. In the meantime I'm just not finding the ability to really connect with and care much about these characters or the writing. Wah Wah.