Will Trent · Book 7
Criminal
- Published
- 3 July 2012
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9781445826622
- Type
- novel

About this book
Criminal (2012, 448 pages), the sixth novel, is one of the series' most significant entries: it excavates Amanda Wagner's history in the 1970s Atlanta Police Department and reveals the secret of Will's own parentage, deepening the mystery of his abandonment as a baby that has run beneath the series since Triptych.
Its place in Will Trent
Criminal is book 7 in the Will Trent series. It follows Snatched. It is followed by Busted. See the full Will Trent reading order.
Will Trent is a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and one of crime fiction's most distinctive detectives: abandoned as a baby, raised brutally in Atlanta's foster system, and severely dyslexic in a job built on paperwork. He compensates with obsessive observation and a near-perfect memory for what people say and do, closing cases other agents can't while hiding the reading disability he is sure will end his career. Around him Karin Slaughter builds a ferocious ensemble — his volatile partner…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781101887455
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345528506
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781609982935