Fractured | Karin Slaughter | Fractured by Karin Slaughter

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Fractured

	Fractured Karin Slaughter Delacorte Press, 2008 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

?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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Fractured by Karin Slaughter

As a fan on Slaughter's books, this latest one did not dissapoint me. An intense, on the edge of your seat suspense thriller. For those that are familiar with Georgia and Atlanta in particular her references to local places and events sound as if we are reading a newspaper report on a local crime. If you have not read any of Slaughter's books before, this is a great one to get you started.

Good Booke

As with all the other Karen Slaughter books I throughly enjoyed Fractured. She's an easy read. Once you pick it up you don't want to put it down.

Slaughter has redeemed herself in my eyes.....

After "Beyond Reach," I vowed never to read another Karin Slaughter book despite the fact that I had loved them ALL until that one.

A friend, Barbara, convinced me to try "Fractured" AND sent it to me, saying that it would change my mind. And it did. I had also enjoyed Triptych so figured I may as well see although I still don't understand the purpose of a prequel here.

The story line has been described by other reviewers. The important thing to convey about this book, other than that you should read it, is that the characters are so well contructed --they were fully developed people with normal human traits and flaws. I wanted to meet them! The mystery was good -- I always like them better when I can't figure out the culprits by chapter 3 -- and the police procedures descriptions were very interesting. Also liked the sidebar info about dyslexia (which is probably misunderstood and underdiagnosed). Amazing to find functional illiteracy at such high levels?!

I hope we see more of Will and Faith in subsequent books that I will not hesitate to read -- as long as there are no words like "Grant County" anywhere inside.....

Buy it!

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Good Thriller

This is a first Karin Slaughter book for me, and only after I finished it did I realize that this was book #2 in a series (Triptych being the 1st). Honestly, I do not think it matters much whether you've read the first book. This one, alone, was enjoyable. The audio book reader was good.

The story starts out in an upper class neighborhood, a girl has been savagely murdered. In the hallway, her horrified mother stands in shattered glass, having just killed her daughter's attacker. But all is not as it appears on the surface. The body count mounting and the local community is in terror, as the killer is proving almost impossible to track down.

This book kept my interest and had some unexpected twists along the way. I plan to read more books by Slaughter in the future.

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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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