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Criminal (with bonus novella Snatched): A Novel (Will Trent) Mass Market Paperback – January 29, 2013

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Book 7 of 7 in the Will Trent/Atlanta Series
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  • Series: Will Trent (Book 6)
  • Mass Market Paperback: 624 pages
  • Publisher: Dell; Reprint edition (January 29, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0345528522
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345528520
  • Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1 x 6.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (801 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,670 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars"Why do you crave a life of sin?"
By E. Bukowsky HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on June 30, 2012
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For years, Karin Slaughter has been tantalizing us with bits and pieces of Will Trent's history. Followers of Slaughter's popular series know that Will is an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. He is dyslexic, scarred physically and psychologically from years in an orphanage and on the streets, and barely made it out of his hellish childhood intact. An ill-advised marriage to a fellow orphan, Angie, has brought Will additional misery. Even though he is still Angie's husband, Will has fallen for pediatrician Sara Linton; Sara cares for him, as well, but she wonders if she can truly be close to a man who has so much emotional baggage. Slaughter's audience knows Sara intimately as a beautiful and brilliant physician and medical examiner who played a prominent role in earlier books.

In "Criminal," Slaughter tells her story in alternating chapters, some of which take place in 1974-75. In the opening scene, we meet a group of wretched female drug addicts. They are at the mercy of a brute who sells their bodies on the street and keeps most of the money they earn for himself. Nineteen-year-old Lucy Bennett started her habit when she took speed to lose weight. She graduated to "injectable amphetamine" and everything spiraled downward from there. Now, she feels as if "she'd swallowed a truckload of concrete" and her hair has been falling out in clumps. Her plight is particularly heartrending since she had once been a good student with a bright future. Now, she is just another streetwalker with dead eyes.

Slaughter places us squarely in Atlanta's underbelly: We witness the unspeakable torture and slaying of helpless women as well as the racism, sexism, and corruption that infected the city's police department in the mid-seventies.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars"Sometimes it's criminal what a woman has to do"
By Jim Munchel on July 3, 2012
Format: Hardcover
The title of my review was taken from the novel CRIMINAL by Karin Slaughter.
A literary tree was planted in her first thriller BLINDSIGHTED with the tangled roots of Sara Linton, small-town pediatrician and her ex husband Jeffrey Tolliver, sherriff of Heartsdale, Georgia.
The twisted branches grew strong with the likes of Jeff's friend Lena Adams and an assortment of diseased characters feeding off the basis of Sara and Jeff's relationship.
From those branches grasping for a place in the heart of darkness bloom Will Trent, Faith Mithcell and Amanda Wagner,all an integral part of the mind of one of the finest mystery writers I have ever read.

Instead of delving into the plot(s) of CRIMINAL without giving any red herrings away or 'spoiler alerts' I wish to give my observations of what drives myself (in my opinion) and her readers to wait with controlled anticipation for her next thriller to be published.

If one is 'not' a Karin Slaughter novice then one knows about her ability to create such flesh and blood characters when something bad or evil happens to them your gut tightens and you are driven to continue reading and hope for a better outcome.
That is truly a rare gift!

IN CRIMINAL Ms. Slaughter weaves two mysteries together thirty five years apart.
1975 is re-imagined with all the sights, smells and everyday functions that only a great writer could accomplish.
From how women detectives were treated to how they interacted with each other.

Lastly, one of the most sastisfying endings of any thriller I have read in the past year!!!

Jim Munchel/Books A Million, Harrisburg, Pa.
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3.0 out of 5 starsSurprisingly disjointed entry into the normally excellent Georgia series
By Wendy Darling on July 14, 2012
Format: Hardcover
I eagerly anticipate every single book by Karin Slaughter, and she's never let me down when it comes to Will Trent and Sara Linton--and after last year's fantastic Fallen, I was really excited to read her new book. Criminal is, however, my least favorite book by this author yet, and the first book in the Georgia series that I've rated less than 4 stars. After thoroughly enjoying each of the previous (12?) novels in this series, it's something of a shock to find myself with such mixed/negative feelings about this one.

The two things that normally make Karin Slaughter books so damned good are crackling, suspenseful mysteries and strong characters that you passionately care about. In Criminal, those elements are woefully obscured by the book's structure (too many POVs, many of which are too long for secondary characters), too much focus on Amanda Wagner's past (which sounded like such a great idea, except that she's much less compelling and sympathetic as a young rookie), and a serious lack of time spent on the central characters we've come to know. The starts and stops of the many, many characters POVs make for a jumbled narrative and a frustrating reading experience, and they detract from both the cleanness of the plotting and any emotional response we might've had to the characters. I'm frankly very surprised that a Slaughter book would be this messy.

Eventually, the central mystery is an interesting one, if a bit on the predictable side. The little we see of the Will/Sara/Angie dynamic continues to be fascinating.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

i love this whole series!! I love Karin Slaughter, you can't put her books down!

Published 19 hours ago by Lanette Wagner
3.0 out of 5 starsGood story

Good story but very difficult to follow. It bounced between characters and years until I had to keep rehashing previous chapters to remember. Read more

Published 2 days ago by clair ashton
5.0 out of 5 starsMy favorite in the series

Keeps you on the edge wanting to read faster! The transitions from the past to the present were excellent. Great thriller

Published 9 days ago by Katrina F. Stapleton
4.0 out of 5 starsgood read

Interesting read....at first it was hard getting the characters in line because of the going back and forth from the present to the past but once that was overcome the characters... Read more

Published 12 days ago by Sanibelgal
5.0 out of 5 starslove her style of writing and twists in story

As always Karin Slaughter keeps you on edge for every page turn, love her style of writing and twists in story..

Published 18 days ago by Linda Fitzpatrick
3.0 out of 5 starsIt was a good read, just hard for me

Had a hard time keeping focused on the story. At times I couldn't remember whether we were in the present day or the past. It was a good read, just hard for me.

Published 18 days ago by Nancy L. Walker
5.0 out of 5 starsI have read them all so far and have completely enjoyed them

The book is well written. It kept my interest from beginning to end, I could not put it down. I can't wait to read More. Read more

Published 18 days ago by Frances J. Macdonald
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great as always ..new favorite author. ..

Published 25 days ago by Amazon Customer
4.0 out of 5 starsParticular type

The will Trent books are a particular type of the mystery/thriller genre and they certainly wouldn't appeal to everyone. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Kindle Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsAnother Winner!!!!

Great book!!!!!!!

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