Tag: Will Trent Series

Karin Slaughter – Criminal (Will Trent Series 6) (2012)

A woman is found brutally murdered in a sordid Atlanta apartment. But there’s something strange about this particular slaying. Her blood-soaked body bears a chilling similarity to a woman found dead almost 40 years earlier. Could it be the work of a long-dormant serial killer? Soon Special Agent Will Trent finds himself returning to the …

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Karin Slaughter – Triptych (Will Trent Series 1) (2006)

When Atlanta police detective Michael Ormewood is called out to a murder scene at the notorious Grady Homes, he finds himself faced with one of the the most brutal killings of his career: Aleesha Monroe is found in the stairwell in a pool of her own blood, her body horribly mutilated. As a one-off killing …

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Karin Slaughter – Fractured (Will Trent Series 2) (2008)

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 …

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Karin Slaughter – The silent wife (Will Trent Series 10) (2020)

A young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead. The police investigate but the trail goes cold. Until a chance assignment takes GBI investigator Will Trent to the state penitentiary, and to a prisoner who says he recognizes the MO. The attack looks identical to the one he was accused of eight years earlier. …

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Karin Slaughter – The last widow (Will Trent Series 9) (2019)

A mysterious kidnapping On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. Vanished into thin air, the authorities are desperate to save the doctor. A devastating explosion One month later, the serenity of a sunny Sunday afternoon is shattered by …

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Karin Slaughter – The kept woman (Will Trent Series 8) (2016)

THE KEPT WOMAN With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead man is identified as an ex-cop. Studying the body, Sara Linton—the GBI’s newest medical examiner and Will’s lover—realizes that …

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Karin Slaughter – Unseen (Will Trent Series 7) (2013)

Karin Slaughter The Atlanta series Unseen, (2013) Plot summary Will Trent is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent whose latest case has him posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who rides a motorcycle around Macon, Georgia, and trails an air of violence wherever he goes. The cover has worked and he has caught the …

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Karin Slaughter – Undone (Will Trent Series 3) (2009)

Karin Slaughter The Georgia series (combining Grant County and Atlanta) Undone, (2009), Genesis (UK title)   Plot summary Faith Mitchell is walking across the parking deck at the courthouse when she passes out. She wakes up in the emergency room of Atlanta’s Grady Hospital, where she was taken by her partner, Will Trent, who luckily …

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Karin Slaughter – Fallen (Will Trent Series 5) (2011)

Karin Slaughter The Georgia series (combining Grant County and Atlanta) Fallen, (2011) Plot summary Agent Faith Mitchell is late leaving a training workshop with the GBI. She was supposed to pick up her baby at noon, but there’s no answer at her mother’s house. Retired Atlanta Police Captain Evelyn Mitchell never leaves the house without …

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Karin Slaughter – Broken (Will Trent Series 4) (2010)

Karin Slaughter The Georgia series (combining Grant County and Atlanta) Broken, (2010) Plot summary Broken begins with the murder of college student Allison Spooner. When the body is pulled from frigid Lake Grant, detective Lena Adams and her oft drunk boss, interim Chief of Police Frank Wallace, follow a trail that leads to the suicide …

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