Broken : a novel /
by Slaughter, Karin,
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| Circulating | Glouster | Mystery | M Slaughter (Browse Shelf) | On hold | |
| Circulating | Athens | Mystery | M Slaughter (Browse Shelf) | Checked out | 09/08/2010 |
| Circulating | Wells (Albany) | Mystery | M Slaughter (Browse Shelf) | Checked out | 09/09/2010 |
From Product Description:
Karin Slaughter’s internationally bestselling novels are as notable for their vivid portraits of lives shadowed by loss and heartbreak as they are for their dramatic criminal investigations. Her latest offering features the return of her most compelling characters and introduces memorable new ones in a tale of corruption, murder, and confrontation that will leave more than one life . . .
When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner’s death. He doesn’t understand why Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him. He doesn’t understand her role in the death of Grant County’s popular police chief. He doesn’t understand why that man’s widow, Dr. Sara Linton, needs him now more than ever to help her crack this case.
While the police force investigates the murder of a young woman pulled from a frigid lake, Trent investigates the police force, putting pressure on Adams just when she’s already about to crack. Caught between two complicated and determined women, trying to understand Linton’s passionate distrust of Adams, the facts surrounding Chief Tolliver’s death, and the complexities of this insular town, Trent will unleash a case filled with explosive secrets—and encounter a thin blue line that could be murderous if crossed.
Spellbinding and keenly paced, Broken is Karin Slaughter at her best. Here is an unforgettable story of raw emotions, dangerous assumptions, the deadly and layered game of betrayal, and a man’s determination to expose the most painful of human truths—no matter how deeply they’re hidden . . . or how devastating.
From Amazon.com Review:
For me, every novel begins with character rather than plot. I know something bad is going to happen, but the central question to every story I write is "how will my characters respond?" Over the years, I’ve certainly thrown some hard times at my Grant County characters. Jeffrey, Sara and Lena have changed a lot since Blindsighted, my first novel. They’ve seen hardship and adversity, grown together and grown apart. They have helped me explore the way crime can change not just people, but entire communities.
When I started writing about Will Trent in my Atlanta series, I wanted to take that exploration a step farther. As a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Will is generally called in when the local police either can’t handle or don’t want to deal with a case. Not only does he have to find the bad guy, he has to juggle the various egos already involved. This is certainly the situation in Broken, when Will is called into Grant County to investigate a possible suicide in police custody. He butts heads with Lena Adams and Frank Wallace, and uncovers a truth that most in the town do not want to see.
Bringing Will Trent into Sara Linton’s world was a fun challenge for me. With Undone, it was in many ways easy to put Sara in Atlanta. I live in the city, and the landscape is already painted for me. As a writer, I need only draw in the fine lines. Dropping Will into Grant County was a different challenge altogether. To work with an existing world that has developed over the course of eight books, to find new and interesting details for long-time readers, was a thrilling challenge to me. Finding a case that was as gripping as it was challenging was also an exciting rollercoaster ride. I hope my readers enjoy solving the crime--and watching the characters change along with it--as much as I did.
(Photo © Alison Rosa)When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, Georgia, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner's death and about a policewoman's role in the death of Grant County's popular police chief.
Broken---
Liked it so much that I bought the rest of the series. JW White
another great one
I haven't read the last few Karin Slaughter books. I'm glad I chose to get this one from Amazon Vine. It reminded me just how much I enjoy her writing. This book includes all the regulars with their issues and quirks. The plotting and suspense are solid. And once again Slaughter does not soften her scripting for anyone. Great story.
Tiresome
This book has so much going for it -- an interesting premise of physician Sara returning home for a holiday and getting sucked into a criminal investigation in her dead husband's former police jurisdiction. A compelling investigator with a sad back story. A couple bad cops, a tragic set of murders and suicide. The mood is grim -- it's always raining -- and there is tension and sadness in abundance. <br /> <br />Somehow, however, the book falls flat. The author seems to repeat things until I feel like throwing the book on the floor and screaming, "I know! I know!" Whether it's an investigator's dyslexia, or the doctor/heroine and her hatred of one of the cops she blames for her husband's death, or the suicide's mental status -- it all just gets harped on endlessly. The story actually seems to plod because so much old ground is gone over and over and over. <br /> <br />I really like dark, suspenseful books, and usually I love Karin Slaughter, so I'll give her future books a chance and hope that this less than stellar book is a one-time blip. But frankly, I have never read a thriller/mystery that took me so long to plough through.
Broken beyond repair?
I have had the release date for Broken on my calander for months and was so excited to read it; however, it totally let me down. <br />The Grant county series has been one that I have followed and thoroughly enjoyed from the beginning; I also did not have a problem with Slaughter killing off Jeffrey as I felt that Jeffrey and Sara had gone as far as they could go in terms of fiction entertainment. The mix of Will, Faith & Sara was one I looked forward too. <br /> <br />This book disapointed me for many reasons: <br />If you are a first time Grant county reader the crime and investigation is unconvincing, really watered down compared to other crimes in the series, the ending is unconvincing, and to be honest, the way it was written, I didn't really care who did it in the end......not gripping and totally underwhelming. <br /> <br />The same applies for readers of the series, along with all the totally unecessary whining over Jeffrey that Sara did; I did like the way Sara finally let go of Jeffrey in the water near the end but for me the entire book seemed to be leading to this revalation to the detriment of a good story. <br /> <br />I will give Slaughter another chance to redeem herself but only one more; but I beg her to get on with it; this is not some Nora Roberts novel; if Sara and Will are getting together, make it happen, and get on with the crime writing, if I wanted romantic fiction I would read Roberts, Slaughter should stick with what she's usually good at and write crime fiction with a basic, brief background story involving the main characters. <br /> <br />And please.........no more Lena Adams....the most unbelieveable part of Broken was that Lena ending up with Jeffrey's son.........where did Slaughter come up with that one!
If it ain't broke, there's no need to fix it!
<br />I've been reading and enjoying the Grant County books since the beginning and love the Atlanta series too, so I'd consider myself as a big fan of Karin Slaughter, then last year she went and combined the two series with the fantastic "Genesis" featuring Grant County regular Sara Linton moving to Atlanta and working with characters Will Trent and Faith Mitchell. This year she's done it again but this time Sara goes back to Grant County for Thanksgiving where she's brought into helping the suspect of the murder of a college girl which originally looked like suicide. Because of some crooked goings on with the local police force (featuring the return of Lena and Frank plus a few others) Will is called to help with the investigation (Faith stays in Atlanta to give birth to her baby). <br /> <br />When I started this book I literally couldn't stop - it is brilliant! The setting is so atmospheric and having the recurring characters made me feel like I was visiting old friends. The story itself isn't the best that Slaughter has written but having such amazing stories previously then it can be forgiven as it is still an A-class book. There's also a lot of character progression here so if you've been reading the books for years like myself then you will really enjoy seeing how the events of previous novels has had effect on them and will enjoy finding out what happens next. Newcomers to the series may not appreciate the book as much as the fans so I would recommend starting from the beginning ("Blindsighted") to make the most of this excellent series. <br /> <br />I highly recommend this book, especially to regular readers of the series. I can't wait for next year's entry now and really look forward to finding out what she thinks to do next. <br />
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