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Criminal (2012)

par Karin Slaughter

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Séries: Georgia (4), Will Trent (6), Sara Linton (10)

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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.
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In questo romanzo il detective Will Trent è in secondo piano rispetto alle vicende della sua superiore Amanda Wagner, ma così si comprendono le dinamiche che legano i due nel corso di pù di trent'anni.
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 |
Criminal by Karin Slaughter

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 |
Criminal (2012) (Will Trent #6) by Karin Slaughter. Usually I have a hard time dealing with a book that springboards between time periods. Not this time. Here Amanda and Evelyn headline the story, from a modern day investigation and back in time when they were both starting in their careers. It is funny to think of Amanda being a bit shy and uncertain, which sets up the amazing growth of the character into what she later becomes. Faith’s mom, Evelyn, is the go-getter of the pair. Together they have just the right mental tools to get through all the evil they have to fight, not to mention all the crime outside the Police Department. Sexism is rampant, racism is the norm, and just trying to do a good job while wearing a skirt is next to impossible.
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 |
So good! ( )
  GeauxGetLit | May 27, 2023 |
"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 Amanda's 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 Will's home . . ."
As I began to read this book, the back and forth from the past to the present was frustrating. However, I should have known to trust the author. There was an absolute reason behind every scene, every conversation and every emotion conveyed. Will Trent is taken through a plethora of emotions from enraging to cathartic. As in everyone's life, there are scabs and wounds best left untouched and there are also some that deserve to be made to bleed again in order to fully heal. Ms. Slaughter does a convincing job of exploring the mindset of the police force in Atlanta in the 70s as well as helping the reader understand that the knee-jerk reaction of a woman in our day and age wouldn't be the same for women intuit day and age. As usual, this story is well thought out and well researched in order to provide us with a thought-provoking story that remains in our minds long after the last page is read. ( )
  Lcmcsr | Jan 24, 2023 |
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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.
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Slaughter, Karinauteur principaltoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Early, KathleenReaderauteur principalquelques éditionsconfirmé
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Lenting, InekeTraducteurauteur secondairequelques éditionsconfirmé
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