 2008-11-22 - Fractured
Brilliant couldn't put the book down Karen Slaugher is a fantastic writer just love her...
 2008-11-15 - Will Trent How Does He Do It?
I like this new cast of characters for Karin Slaughter. Will Trent is a great character!!! Its shocking how messed up his previously life was that he's somewhat normal. Im torn if he should be with Angie or not, I don't even think he knows!! I like Faith and glad that he's getting a partner now!!! It will be interesting to see how well they work together. Cannot wait for the next book!!!
 2008-10-19 - Fractured
Nicely done murder mystery, but I won't be giving up Kathy Reich's, Martha Grimes, P.D.James, etc. any time soon.
Also the author has a childish tendency to interject anti-Northern sentinments into the story.
Really the war is over--build a bridge and ...
V. V. Mauro
2008-10-14 - great book
i love these characters and always buy the books as soon as they come out i have never been dissapointed
2008-10-12 - Fractured
Karin Slaughter returns to the location and brings back characters from her earlier novel, "Triptych," the location being Atlanta, Georgia. Will Trent, 6'3 and thirty-six years old, of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, is called to the scene in an upscale enclave where two dead bodies are found. A 19-year-old boy and 17-year-old girl are found murdered, the young woman having been savagely stabbed and beaten and the boy stabbed and strangled to death, the latter apparently strangled at the hands of Abigail Campano, the woman in whose home---mansion, really---the bodies have been found. In addition to the two deaths, it appears that another young girl has been kidnapped. Surprisingly, Will's boss, Amanda Wagner, deputy director of the special criminal apprehension team, has assigned a young city cop, Faith Mitchell, to work the case with him. [Faith, at 33 and with an 18-year-old son, knows something about teenage angst [both her son's and her own at 14 when she became pregnant with him while in high school.] Another character to whom we are introduced is Angie, a former vice cop with a rep for promiscuity, to whom, against all odds, Will is now engaged.
Faith's working with Will is fraught with complications: Six months earlier Will had been asked to investigate the APD narcotics squad, which "had resulted in the firing of six Atlanta police detectives and forced the early retirement of one of the city's highest-ranking officers. The cases were good --- the cops were skimming cash off of narcotics busts --- but nobody liked a stranger cleaning their house, and Will had not exactly made friends during the course of the investigation." And now Faith is asked to work with the man who had helped force her mother off the job.
Will and Paul Campano, Abigail's husband, have a history going back nearly three decades, when they were both in the Atlanta Children's Home [as was Angie]. Paul was adopted at the age of 12, while Will remained in his soul-stifling environs until eighteen, when the law mandated he leave, however ill-prepared he may have been for that eventuality. The circumstances of their childhood have had a profound effect on all of them, as has Will's learning disability, which he takes great pains to hide. He and Faith are well-drawn protagonists, and this reader looks forward to reading the next book in what is hoped will be a continuing series.
The book is much more than a police procedural. One thing it is not, as one might expect it might be, is uniformly somber, the author's humor often evident. A high level of suspense is maintained throughout as the detectives work the clues, hoping that they are in time to prevent the loss of yet another young life. Well written and fast-paced, the book is highly recommended.
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