On an ordinary spring day, Special Agent Faith Mitchell of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation returns home to a nightmare. Expecting to find her mother minding Faith's new baby daughter Emma, she is horrified to discover Emma locked in the shed, her mother's safe open, her gun missing and a trail of blood to the front door.
Without waiting for back-up, Faith enters the house to a scene of carnage. It has been torn apart and a man lies dead in a pool of blood. She stumbles across two more intruders, and within minutes they too are shot dead. And when the Atlanta police force turns up, Faith has some difficult questions to answer. But she has some desperate questions of her own. What were the killers searching for? Ex-Atlanta police chief Evelyn Mitchell was once under investigation by Faith's partner Will Trent. Is her mother directly involved this time, and where is she now?
With Faith suspended from duty, Will, together with the help of Dr Sara Linton, must piece together the fragments of a brutal and complicated case - and catch a deeply troubled and vicious murderer with only one thing on his mind. To keep on killing until the truth is finally revealed...
About the Author :
Karin Slaughter is one of the world’s most popular and acclaimed storytellers. Published in 120 countries with more than 35 million copies sold across the globe, her nineteen novels include the Grant County and Will Trent books, as well as the Edgar-nominated Cop Town and the instant New
York Times bestselling novels Pretty Girls, The Good Daughter, and Pieces of Her. This summer, Slaughter returns with her latest Will Trent instalment, The Last Widow. Slaughter is the
founder of the Save the Libraries project-a nonprofit organisation established to support libraries and library programming.
A native of Georgia, Karin Slaughter lives in Atlanta. Her standalone novels Pieces of Her, The Good Daughter and Cop Town are in development for film and television.
For more information visit KarinSlaughter.com
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@SlaughterKarin
Review :
"A complex, gripping and deadly serious novel that reflects anew Slaughter's abundant talent.""--The Washington Post
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"An amazing effort . . . This is [Karin] Slaughter's best book to date, and readers unfamiliar with her work will find this one a perfect place to begin."--Associated Press
"An absolute master . . . Slaughter creates some wonderfully complex and mature female characters, a distinctive achievement in the world of thrillers.""--Chicago Tribune"
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"Slaughter has always known how to pace the suspense in her stellar crime novels, but she really outdoes herself here. . . . [She] reveals the heart and soul of her characters within a highly choreographed, unrelentingly suspenseful plot."--"Booklist" (starred review)
Praise for Karin Slaughter
"Karin Slaughter is one of the best crime novelists in America." --"The Washington Post"
"Karin Slaughter is one of the boldest thriller writers working today."--Tess Gerritsen
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"Crime fiction at its finest."--Michael Connelly
PRAISE FOR THE CRIME FICTION OF KARIN SLAUGHTER
"Karin Slaughter is one of the best crime novelists in America.""--The Washington Post "
"Crime fiction at its finest."--Michael Connelly
"Slaughter writes like a razor . . . better than Cornwell can ever hope to be.""--The Plain Dealer"
"Slaughter will have you on the edge of your seat.""--The Seattle Post-Intelligencer"
"One of the boldest thriller writers working today."--Tess Gerritsen
"Move over, Catherine Coulter--Slaughter may be today's top female suspense writer."--"Library Journal" (starred review)
"From the Hardcover edition."
