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Chargement... Criminal (Will Trent, #6) (original 2012; édition 2015)par Karin Slaughter
Information sur l'oeuvreCriminal par Karin Slaughter (2012)
   READ in 2023 (77) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  NatalieRiley | May 4, 2024 |   Forse meno azione rispetto ad altri libri, ma più analisi dei personaggi, più adatto ai fan dei protagonisti di questa serie. (  ) ginsengman | Jan 19, 2024 | Will Trent is being kept off a brutal case while his Boss Amanda investigates. Similarities to a case decades ago has them on edge. As they get closer to the solving this crime and catch a killer, secrets will be revealed opening up Will's past and the mystery of his birth and parents Moving at a fast pace with vivid details, engaging realistic dialog and well developed characters. Intense, chilling, suspenseful. Brilliantly alternating from past to present had me engrossed. I could not put it down. Karin Slaughter is on her mark in this page turning crime procedural. Fans will not be disappointed, as we learn more about Will Trent's past. Criminal is must read for (Karin) Slaughter fans. Fantastic. I highly recommended. (  ) SheriAWilkinson | Sep 2, 2023 | They manage to get put on an investigation into the murder of a prostitute, something seemingly on one else (read the male investigators) with which no wants to be troubled. Which leads to a serial killer no one else on the force wants to believe exists. During the investigation they discover the killer may have some ties to a young Will Trent, long before his association with the GBI. We skip from the past to the current release of killer from prison. Will’s dad makes an appearance, to the detriment of Will’s mental health. And there is suspicion on Will’s part that dad has not changed his ways when a woman bearing a remarkable likeness to dad’s victim, Will’s mom, is abducted. To complicate matters in the present day, Angie makes an infrequent appearance, just enough to help derail Will even further. In the past our two young heros show what they have and manage to grow even more confident in themselves. Amanda even manages to begin to deal with her father issues, a major step. And together Amanda and Evelyn begin to develop their “girl’s network”, a growing web of like minded women fed up with the status quo and willing to work together when needed to further each other’s development, an important tool in all the books. Criminal is a great addition to this series helping to broaden the range and scope of both new and old characters. A seriously great read for fans of this genre. It may take a while to get up to speed, but like a charging bull, it certainly holds your attention. ( ) TomDonaghey | Aug 12, 2023 | ) GeauxGetLit | May 27, 2023 |
Is Karin Slaughter always this long-winded? At 436 pages, her 12th novel, Criminal, reads about 150 pages too many, and in several passages, it becomes painfully clear that Slaughter has jammed into the narrative every scrap of research she could drag up on subjects that might not deserve such scrupulous examination. Not that the garrulousness means readers should ignore Criminal. Even when Slaughter is way too wordy, she’s still entirely readable. As with earlier novels, Criminal takes place in Slaughter’s native Georgia, specifically in Atlanta. The action covers two alternating time periods, 1974-75 and the present. The two are connected by the plot and by a handful of characters. All of the latter fall into one of three categories: members of the Atlanta Police Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation; murder victims, mostly young prostitutes; and, the smallest and most tantalizing category, the killer, a spectacularly heinous fellow who isn’t conclusively identified until very late in the book. Out of this mix, it’s a cop named Amanda Wagner who holds the plot on course. In the book’s 1970s passages, she’s a rookie APD officer with an intuitively sharp sleuthing touch. Amanda also carries the burden of a bullying father who happens to be a senior member of both the Atlanta cops and the Ku Klux Klan. Forty years later, having survived daddy, Amanda is a 60ish senior officer with the GBI. Her investigative instincts remain intact, but she’s added an intellectual rationale for her policing moves. That, and a gift for keeping secrets, make her essential in assuring that Slaughter’s scattergun approach to the narrative produces a reasonably coherent resolution. Still, Slaughter’s insistence on sharing with readers her massive research stands as a barrier against total enjoyment of Criminal. The author’s Acknowledgments let us know we’re in for a history of the Atlanta Police Department, but did we need whole chapters to convince us that the ATP of the 1970s may have been the most racist and sexist organization in the history of policing? True enough, one intriguing nugget of irony emerges from the ton of Atlanta cop research. When Amanda Wagner’s daddy sends his KKK robes to the dry cleaner’s shop for laundering, who restores them to their pristine white? Answer: the shop’s black employees. Distinctions
A Georgia Bureau of Investigation search into a shocking crime from 1975 poses unprecedented personal and professional challenges for top agent Will Trent, who encounters threats against his life and everything he thought he understood about his past. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The story opens in 1975 with Lucy Bennett’s introduction to drug use and her progression to prostitution. She and other prostitutes become the center of an investigation pursued by Amanda Wager and Evelyn Mitchell, who are brand new to their police careers. This portion of the story highlights the reality for women joining the police force in the 1970’s with the stigma, discrimination, and disrespect they received from their colleagues.
The novel alternates to the present day with Will Trent navigating his new relationship with Sarah Linton. A local college student goes missing and Amanda Wagner keeps Will off the case by having him working undercover at the airport. Will is frustrated and confused with Amanda’s decision. As he is opening up to Sarah about growing up in an orphanage, Will unexpectedly runs into Amanda inside the abandoned home. It appears that the case Amanda and Evelyn worked in 1975 is having a recurrence in the present day.
This is a fascinating book! Karin kept me on the edge of my seat by gradually feeding me information and letting my curious mind connect the details. I love when a story does that!
I borrowed the audiobook of Criminal from my local library with the Libby app. Kathleen Early is a great narrator.
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