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Criminal

Karin Slaughter

20121 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
2012
first published
  • 2012Center Point Publishing · ENGISBN 9781611734669
  • 2012Delacorte Press · 436 pages · ENGISBN 9780345528506
  • 2012Penguin Random House · 448 pages · ENGISBN 9781409038665
  • 2012AudioGO · 518 pages · ENGISBN 9781445826622
  • 2013Penguin Random House · 560 pages · ENGISBN 9780099550280
  • 2012AudioGO · 1 pagesISBN 9781609982935
  • 2012Delacorte Press · 448 pagesISBN 9780345538475
  • 2016Dell · 576 pages · ENGISBN 9781101887455

"1974: in the blistering heat of an Atlanta summer, a killer prowls the streets, searching for the weak, the vulnerable and the lost. Forty years later, a young woman is found brutally murdered in a sordid high-rise apartment. The specifics of her death are detailed and macabre, but for Special Agent Will Trent they are startingly familiar, and can only mean one thing. Desperate to deny this might be happening to him, he is forced to return to the home he grew up in, to the grimy crime-ridden streets, to a childhood he has spent the best part of his adult life trying to avoid. As the body count rises, and the tension on the inner-city streets starts to simmer, Will becomes convinced that the clue to the killings now, and in 1974, may lie in his own past; a past that he hates yet feels responsible for."--Back cover.

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AtmosphereNoir

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful
Character focusSmall ensemble

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