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Fractured (2008)

by Karin Slaughter

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Series: Will Trent (2), Will Trent, per Authors Website (2)

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  romsfuulynn | Apr 28, 2013 |
My blog post about this book is at this link. ( )
  SuziQoregon | Apr 10, 2013 |
Although Slaughter knows how to write a page-turner, and this one was no exception, several highly improbable leaps in this one strained even this most forgiving reader. I liked the characters, though, and hope Slaughter will give them a better novel in which to appear in the future. ( )
  BluesGal79 | Mar 31, 2013 |
I like Will Trent. He's the best flawed character I've read in a long time. I loved how in Triptych, you couldn't tell until well into the book that Will was the main character, and series regular. Unfortunately, the story in Fractured just wasn't that interesting. I love that Will's functionally illiterate. It's fascinating that a writer and her readers (all of whom are obviously quite literate) would enter a journey with a person who finds reading the simplest words a trial. But I didn't give a much of a hoot about the other characters, some of whom lived, a couple died, and one kidnapped. Plus after such an excellent introduction to a new series, I was looking for more about Will, and Angie, and even the little rat that passes for a dog. ( )
  Sylvie.Fox | Jan 9, 2013 |
At the start of bestseller Slaughter’s heart-pounding sequel to 2006’s Triptych, wealthy housewife Abigail Campano returns home one day to Atlanta’s posh Ansley Park neighborhood to find a dead girl in the mansion’s upstairs hallway, the apparent killer nearby. Thinking that the girl is her teenage daughter, Emma, the distraught Abby kills the alleged attacker only to realize that the murdered girl is not Emma, but Emma’s friend, Kayla Alexander. Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation soon determines that he has a murder and kidnapping on his hands. Paired with Det. Faith Mitchell, Trent scrambles to put the pieces together and find Emma before it’s too late. Summary BPL

Continuing to read Slaughter’s book out of order with no nasty side effects. Although peopled with continuing characters, each book stands alone and strong. Ms Slaughter has not disappointed yet!

8 out 10 Recommended to murder mystery fans with strong stomachs…. ( )
  julie10reads | Sep 9, 2012 |
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Abigail Campano sat in her car parked on the street outside her own house.
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There’s no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her mother’s house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead in the laundry room. She sees a hostage situation in the bedroom. What she doesn’t see is her mother. . . .

“You know what we’re here for. Hand it over, and we’ll let her go.”

When the hostage situation turns deadly, Faith is left with too many questions, not enough answers. To find her mother, she’ll need the help of her partner, Will Trent, and they’ll both need the help of trauma doctor Sara Linton. But Faith isn’t just a cop anymore—she’s a witness. She’s also a suspect.

The thin blue line hides police corruption, bribery, even murder. Faith will have to go up against the people she respects the most in order to find her mother and bring the truth to light—or bury it forever.

Karin Slaughter’s most exhilarating novel yet is a thrilling journey through the heart and soul, where the personal and the criminal collide, and conflicted loyalties threaten to destroy reputations and ruin lives. It is the work of a master of the thriller at the top of her game, and a whirlwind of unrelenting suspense.
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Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most upscale neighborhoods—but in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter’s attacker with her bare hands. Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is one of the first on the scene. Trent soon sees something that the Atlanta cops are missing, something in the trail of blood, in a matrix of forensic evidence, and in the eyes of the stunned mother. When another teenage girl goes missing, Trent knows that this case, which started in the best of homes, is about to cut quick and deep through the ruins of perfect lives broken wide-open: where human demons emerge with a vengeance.

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Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation takes on the case of a girl who has been savagely murdered in one of Atlanta's most desirable neighborhoods.

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