â[A] hold-on-to-your-hat, nail-biting story.ââThe Washington Post âSlaughterâs best yet, by far.ââLee Child
Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amandaâs motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before, when his father was imprisoned for murder, this was Willâs home. It appears that the case that launched Amandaâs career forty years ago has suddenly come back to lifeâand it involves the long-held mystery of Willâs birth and parentage. Now these two dauntless investigators will each need to face down demons from the past if they are to prevent an even greater terror from being unleashed.
Includes Karin Slaughterâs short story âSnatchedâ and a preview of the Will Trent novel Unseen
âWith every page of this story the tension mounts. . . . If you have a hunger for a rich and fulfilling novel then you owe it to yourself to pick up Criminal.ââHuffington Post âA masterpiece of character, atmosphere and riveting suspense, Criminal is the most powerful and moving novel yet from one of the most gifted storytellers at work today.ââChicago Daily Herald
Criminal (with bonus novella Snatched) - Karin Slaughter
â[A] hold-on-to-your-hat, nail-biting story.ââThe Washington Post âSlaughterâs best yet, by far.ââLee Child
Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amandaâs motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before, when his father was imprisoned for murder, this was Willâs home. It appears that the case that launched Amandaâs career forty years ago has suddenly come back to lifeâand it involves the long-held mystery of Willâs birth and parentage. Now these two dauntless investigators will each need to face down demons from the past if they are to prevent an even greater terror from being unleashed.
Includes Karin Slaughterâs short story âSnatchedâ and a preview of the Will Trent novel Unseen
âWith every page of this story the tension mounts. . . . If you have a hunger for a rich and fulfilling novel then you owe it to yourself to pick up Criminal.ââHuffington Post âA masterpiece of character, atmosphere and riveting suspense, Criminal is the most powerful and moving novel yet from one of the most gifted storytellers at work today.ââChicago Daily Herald