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Snatched: A Novella, Karin Slaughter

I broke my vow to never read Karin Slaughter again. The thing is, this past week, I haven’t had any luck with reading anything. I’d stopped and started so many books that I just gave up. Browsing Amazon, I saw twenty reviews with an average rating of four and half stars for Karin Slaughter’s novella, SNATCHED (2012) her latest Will Trent short story.

The subject is a disturbing one: pedophilia but the story itself is not violent or gory and the pedophilia stuff is implied. It’s actually well written and suspenseful and shows Slaughter’s strength as a writer in that she’s able to create and flesh out her characters, admittedly already established. The build up of tension was masterfully done. SNATCHED is an engrossing read that gave a decent emotional punch at the end. Another plus was the absence of Sara Linton! The rest of Will Trent’s cohorts, Faith Mitchell and Amanda Wagner are in here too.

Special Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has to police the men’s toilets at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport as punishment for not following regulation. His boss, Deputy Director Amanda Wagner told him to get a haircut and he took too long to get to a barber. While he’s doing his regular routine of staking out men who cruise the toilets for sex, a man and a little girl enter the restroom. While Will is hidden in the stall, he overhears the little girl say that she wants to go home. Will’s instincts go on high alert and after seeing the two of them, he debates over whether to intervene because the look of the man and the girl’s reaction to him just doesn’t look right.  Continue reading →

Broken [Grant County Series No.7], Karin Slaughter

Broken [ Delacorte Press 2010, 416 pages] by Karin Slaughter is marketed as the 7th book in the Grant County series. The author combined the Will Trent series (Triptych) with the Grant County series in Undone. The Grant County series followed Dr. Sara Linton along with her ex-husband, police officer, Jefferey Tolliver. Sara was the town’s pediatrician and part-time coroner. The following article contains spoilers so I don’t recommend reading beyond the break.

Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation drives down from Atlanta to the small town of Grant County to investigate the circumstances surrounding a suspect who dies in police custody. Detective Lena Adams makes her first appearance since Beyond Reach and as usual, she’s already involved in a mess. On a early, cold and rainy morning, a body of a young woman is fished out of the lake. She’s identified as Amanda Spooner, a college student who worked at the local diner. The crime scene shows signs of a suicide but a fatal stab wound at the back of the neck negates that possibility. Continue reading →