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Great book. Had me glued to the chair. I highly recommend it and look forward to reading more of her books.
Everybody knows that women can't write police procedurals. But Slaughter puts the lie to it with strong plot, good characters and excellent technical background information.
In Fractured, the only daughter of wealthy Atlanta couple, Paul and Abigail Campano, is kidnapped from their house. After the first initial scenes, however, I felt the pace of the story became quite slow, and a bit dull, as Will and Faith slowly piece together the pieces of the case. When the local police make an error of judgement at the beginning of the investigation, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, is sent in to assist with the case. He is paired with Faith Mitchell of the Atlanta Police Department, a woman who has reason to dislike him.As with the earlier, Will Trent novel, Triptych, the twists arrive early on in this story. It did not really pick up until the last hundred or so pages, when everything starts to come together. I did think the character development was good though, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.
GBI investigator, Will Trent returns in Karen Slaughter's FRACTURED. Fighting for her life, the mother manages to strangle the monster. Few novels have been so apply named; every relationship in the story is fractured. They are held together for no-other reason than bad habit.A wealthy mother returns home to discover an intruder bending over the broken body of her daughter holding a knife. This reviewer is stopping a this point as Ms. Slaughter's work makes twists seem like cub scout knots in the fast paced police procedural that never lets up with fantastic turns and horror.Karen's work has always been difficult to describe as with each new story she steps outside the mold to bring the reader something different and astounding.This is not a novel to take to bed as you will be up all night wondering what can happen to your child.Nash Black, author of Indie finalists WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS and HAINTS.
I am a fan of this genre and had read all Connelly, Baldachi, etc and needed a new author. Picked up this new author (to me) at the airport. I fly weekly and read at least a book a week so I am always on the lookout for additional authors in the genre. LOVED IT. Made me go to Amazon and seek out more Karin Slaughter books. Just ordered the first book of this 2 book series. Please Karin, more Will Trent soon
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