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Fractured by Karin Slaughter
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I enjoyed this book. It is a murder/kidnapping mystery that has many twists and turns. I like that the book is not totally plot driven. Slaughter gives a lot of character development and I am wondering if this book might be part of a series with the same detective. I give this book 3.5 stars out of 5 ( )
  meags222 | Nov 25, 2009 |
Karin Slaughter creates great characters. The title "Fractured" seems to deal not only with the shattered life of the many victims, but also with the deep wounds that life has dealt the lead investigators as well. Will Trent, the lead investigator, grew up as an orphan "in care," and he struggles to hide his severe disability that makes it difficult to read and pick up on written details. Faith Mitchell was molested by an older boyfriend as a young teenager, and has dealt with the shame and rejection all of her adult life even as she has lovingly raised her son. The crime mystery itself is somewhat lacking in wit and amazement, but it does easily hold your interest. I really cared what happened to WIll and Faith, and was pleased, if not overly surprised, at how things worked out. Overall a very enjoyable novel. ( )
  hannahbond | Nov 17, 2009 |
a little slow, but perfectly readable. ( )
  tarshaan | Jul 21, 2009 |
This is the first one of karin Slaughters novels i have read and I actually brought it by mistake as I thought it was another author that i liked. Absolutely loved it full of twists, a complete page turner and i couldnt put it down. I have since reading this novel read two other of her novels and am taking two more on holiday with me next week ( )
  spurs4life1979 | Jun 20, 2009 |
This is the first of Karin Slaughters novels I have read, & it won't be the last.
This story gripped me from the first page..... Full of twists & turns, keeping you guessig right to the end.
The two leading detectives, Will Trent & Faith Mitchell, were absolutely believable and highly readable. I think the story line is really good and again, believable as we follow the effects of the tragedy on the surrounding environments. ( )
  Elphaba71 | May 20, 2009 |
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For Irwyn and Nita...
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Abigail Campano sat in her car parked on the street outside her own house. (Prologue)
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“Breathless tension!” raved the San Francisco Chronicle. “One of [the year’s] most remarkable achievements,” crowed the Philadelphia Inquirer. Karin Slaughter dazzled readers and critics alike with Triptych, her New York Times bestselling suspense novel set in metropolitan Atlanta. Now the #1 internationally bestselling author returns to the damaged landscape she knows so well in a bold new novel—at once a powder keg of suspense, a gritty portrait of a cop’s life, and a searing exploration of a shocking crime and its aftermath…

With its gracious homes and tree-lined streets, Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most desirable neighborhoods. But in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her horrified 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 here only to do a political favor; the murder site belongs to the Atlanta police. But Trent soon sees something that the cops are missing, something in the trail of blood, in a matrix of forensic evidence, and in the eyes of the shell-shocked mother. Within minutes, Trent is taking over the case—and adding another one to it. He is sure that another teenage girl is missing, and that a killer is on the loose.

Armed with only fleeting clues, teamed with a female cop who has her own personal reasons for hating him, Trent has enemies all around him—and a gnawing feeling that this case, which started in the best of homes, is cutting quick and deep through the ruins of perfect lives broken wide-open: where human demons emerge with a vengeance.

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